Planning
Grant | Meeting
of 100
The LTER Network has been funded to conduct a 2-year planning process
for synthesis and Network-level research for the coming decade(s).
The LTER program has developed very strong research programs at the
individual sites, positioning the Network well to engage in major
synthesis efforts and to develop new synthetic research programs
across the Network. Society is facing an increasing number of pressing
environmental challenges that require coordinated, long-term, interdisciplinary
research efforts across the LTER Network and with other environmental
science networks and programs. This planning grant represents an
important opportunity, not only for planning in the LTER Network,
but for many other programs and disciplines that can benefit by working
together. The LTER Network has identified four Grand Challenges that
will be addressed by our planning activities:
- Ecological effects of alterations in biodiversity
- Ecological effects of altered biogeochemical cycles at multiple
scales
- Ecological responses to climate change and climate variability
- Coupled human-natural ecosystems.
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Useful References
Andelman, S.J., C.M. Bowles, M.R. Willig,
and R.B. Waide. Disentangling biocomplexity through a Distributed
Knowledge Network. BioScience 54: 240-246.
Ebert-May, D., K. Williams, E. P. Weber,
J. Hodder, D. Luckie. 2004. Principles in ecology and education:
Practicing scientific inquiry. Frontiers in Ecology and
the Environment, in press.
Knapp, A.K., M. D. Smith, S. L. Collins,
N. Zambatis, M. Peel, S. Emery, J. Wojdak, M. C. Horner-Devine,
H. Biggs, J. Kruger, and S.J. Andelman. 2004. Generality
in ecology: testing North American grassland rules in South
African savannas. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment,
in press.
Peterson,
B. J. 1993. The costs and benefits of collaborative research. Estuaries 16(4):
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Science Task Force
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Science Task Force Advisory Committee
Boynton,
Walter
Carpenter,
Steve - NTL
D'Avanzo,
Charlene
Estrin,
Deborah
Gosz,
James - SEV
Hornberger,
George
Hulse,
David
Lugo,
Ariel - LUQ
Melillo,
Jerry - HFR
Palmer, Margaret
Pickett,
Steward - BES
Vaughan, Hague
- INT
Vitousek,
Peter |
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