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

[Alice Boyle]

Hello Marty and others,
I work on bird populations at Konza. This summer we were able to continue the long-term surveys of unmarked individuals on roughly half the watersheds at the site, and we also conducted a somewhat restricted field season focusing on demography of individually-marked Grasshopper Sparrows, Eastern Meadowlarks, and Dickcissels. If you think any of these efforts might be useful to you in this effort, I am happy to share.
Alice

Dr. Alice Boyle
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From: investigators <investigators-bounces at lists.lternet.edu> On Behalf Of Marty Downs
Sent: Wednesday, 12 August, 2020 11:26 AM
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Cc: Sydne Record <srecord at brynmawr.edu>
Subject: [LTER-investigators] Identifying LTER data relevant to "anthropause" effects

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

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