[LTER-investigators] Got long-term biodiversity data?: ILTER Joint Paper Initiative

[Marty Downs]

Dear LTER investigators--
I wanted to make you aware of this joint paper initiative with our ILTER
colleagues.  It seems that my earlier email was not delivered and the
organizers have received no data sets from US investigators.

The initial deadline was February 7, but organizers would very much like to
be able to include US data. If you have -- or know of -- an appropriate
data set (see requirements below), please respond directly to Peter Haase (
peter.haase at senckenberg.de) as soon as possible.

Thank you,
Marty

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Marty Downs <downs at nceas.ucsb.edu>
Date: Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 11:47 AM
Subject: ILTER Joint Paper Initiative
To: investigators at lternet.edu


I thought some of you might be interested in the attached international
joint paper initiative forwarded from Peter Haase at ILTER.

Marty

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Peter Haase <Peter.Haase at senckenberg.de>
To: <ilter at list.ilternet.edu>
Cc: Francesca Pilotto <Francesca.Pilotto at senckenberg.de>
Bcc:
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 10:15:47 +0100
Subject: [ilter] ILTER Joint Paper Initiative

Dear ILTER friends and colleagues,



As most of you know the decline in insect biomass that was recently
published in a paper by Hallmann et al. in PlosOne (October 2017) raised
enormous attention across the globe. The underlying data were compiled by
hobby entomologists over approximately 30 years in different German nature
reserves.

I believe you all may agree that such a decline is not restricted to nature
reserves in Germany but is most likely a common pattern across several
parts of the world and also not only restricted to insects. However this
has to be proven.

I wonder if there might be similar long-term datasets from various ILTER
sites? If so, we may compile these data and write a joined paper on
cross-taxa and cross-realm patterns in global biodiversity decline?



I am aware that similar studies have been done before (e.g. Bowler et al.
2017 Nature Ecology and Evolution) but I believe that there are still many
unanswered questions and many taxa groups that have never been included in
such studies.



I am sure you need to know more about the planned paper project than just a
draft title. However, as we currently do not know how many datasets over
which time periods, from which ecosystems and countries might be available,
we would rather like starting to draft an outline of such a paper after
knowing what data might be available.



Therefore, I would be happy if you could let me know if you may have
long-term biodiversity data from an ILTER site that fulfills the following
criteria:



-          coverage of at least 25 years

-          at least 10 sampling events during that time that are evenly
distributed within the 25 years

-          no changes in sampling method, taxonomic resolution and season

-          the data of a certain time series are from the same site (no
space-for-time substitution!)

-          data are digitalized and could be submitted within a few weeks

-          true number abundance or biomass data on species or genus level

-          georeferences for all sites where data were sampled from

If you may have such data and interested in this joint endeavor, please
fill in a few requested information about your dataset in the attached
Excel sheet (will not take more than 5 minutes).

All data contributors will offered to become a co-author.



Please send back your information before February 7, 2018.



Thank you very much and all the best for 2018!

Peter Haase

(ILTER Science Committee Chair)


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-- 
Marty Downs
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Long-Term Ecological Research Network <https://lternet.edu/>
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