[LTER-investigators] Identifying LTER data relevant to "anthropause" effects

[Marty Downs]

Dear LTER investigators,
A group of researchers -- led by Evelyn Gaiser, John Kominoski and Diane
McKnight -- is hard at work on a paper examining the ecological
implications of what we're calling the "anthropause," the broad-scale
reduction and relocation of human activities during the pandemic.

The angle we are pursuing emphasizes the importance of long term ecological
networks in understanding how such a disturbance might reorganize
human-ecological systems to make them more (or less) resilient. We are
combining case studies with remote sensing and referencing available
datasets from LTERs and other networks and sources to describe hypotheses
about how we expect things might change and identify how they could be
tested in the future.

We expect to complete the manuscript within the month and are putting out a
last call for any additional LTER data that might be relevant to the focus
areas of

   1. air, water, and soil biogeochemistry (section lead: Will Wollheim);
   2. presence, movements, and populations of organisms, esp. wildlife
   (section leads: Christie Bahlai and Sydney Record);
   3. human-ecosystem service interactions (section lead: Chingwen Cheng.

*Examples* of such data that may have been collected during the shutdown
include the following, but we are soliciting any types of data that may be
relevant.:

   - Camera trap data
   - Data about ambient sound and light
   - Ecosystem service assessments


To contribute, please email a brief description of the dataset and its
relevance to the cc: list on this email, which includes section leads. One
of us will follow up to get details and access if appropriate.

Many thanks,
Marty, Evelyn, John, Diane

-- 
Marty Downs (she/her/hers) ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2833-956X>
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