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Three special sessions at the Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) All Scientists meeting, 2-4 August 2000 in Snowbird, Utah, USA. We are organizing three workshops related to landscape patterns and processes for the upcoming Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) All Scientists meeting, and would like you to participate in one or more of them. This meeting will be held August 2-4, 2000 in Snowbird, Utah, and will precede the Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America (Aug. 6-10). One workshop will deal with scaling from plots to landscapes, and will focus both on scaling plot-level results to landscapes as well as the interpretation of small-scale studies within a landscape context. The second workshop will deal with scaling from plots and landscapes to regions, and will examine the importance of including landscape scale processes into regional analyses. The abstract for each workshop is included below along with its date and time. Our plans for the workshops include a series of short presentations followed by a discussion and synthesis of each topic. We have two goals to be met by these workshops that will capitalize on examples from different ecosystem types and across different ecosystem components. First, we would like to identify the ecological questions where the inclusion of spatially-explicit processes are critical to our understanding of patterns, and the questions or ecosystem conditions where is not essential to include these processes. Second, we would like to synthesize this information in order to identify gaps in our knowledge that limit our predictions of ecosystem response to environmental drivers, including disturbance, climate change, and management practices. These half-day workshops will be followed by a full-day workshop on the following Saturday, Aug. 5 where we will discuss the results and synthesize our findings in the context of the GCTE Task 2.2.4 ""Linking changing landscape pattern and ecosystem function"". Details on the All Scientists meeting can be found on the web page (http://www.lternet.edu/allsci2000). Please indicate below if you would be interested in participating in one or more of the workshops. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide travel support for U.S. participants. For international participants, a limited amount of support may be available - please respond as soon as possible if you require support. Workshop titles and abstracts
Regionalization involves a variety of methods and approaches, although many methods share the assumption that independently sampled or simulated points can be used to represent the region. Landscape-scale processes that connect points, such as the invasion of insect pests and weedy plants, ecosystem-atmosphere interactions, and redistribution of soils and nutrients, are increasingly recognized as important in generating patterns and influencing processes at larger spatial scales. The goal of this workshop is to assess and synthesize across ecosystems the research topics and specific problems where the inclusion of landscape processes is critical to understanding regional patterns and processes. We will compare alternative spatially-interactive approaches to scaling site-level results to the region. We will also discuss the implications of including interactions among landscape units for regional distributions of species and ecosystems as well as for regional assessments. Expected products from the workshop include a web page with a summary of the discussions and a synthesis article in a journal such as BioScience.
The goal of this workshop is to provide a better understanding of the approaches and difficulties of including spatially-explicit processes when scaling between plot-level studies and the landscape. The workshop will focus both on the scaling of plot-level results to landscape patterns as well as the interpretation of small-scale studies within a landscape context. Through examples from different ecosystem types and across different ecosystem components (e.g. plants, animals, and soils), we will address questions such as: Under what conditions is it necessary to include spatially-explicit processes when scaling from plots to landscapes? Are these conditions similar across ecosystem types? How does including spatially-explicit processes within a landscape context change the interpretation of results from small-scale studies or improve our understanding of ecosystem dynamics at small scales? Expected products from the workshop include a web page summarizing the discussion and a synthesis article in BioScience.
The goal of this workshop is to synthesize the findings of the previous two workshops in the context of the GCTE Task 2.2.4 ""Linking changing landscape pattern and ecosystem function"". We will also discuss potential interactions and future collaborations among participants based upon similar and different findings Please return the form below to: debpeter@nmsu.edu I am interested in presenting material in: Workshop 1 (landscapes to regions): Workshop 2 (plots to landscapes): Workshop 3 (GCTE Task 2.2.4):
I am interested in attending but not presenting material: Workshop 1 (landscapes to regions): Workshop 2 (plots to landscapes): Workshop 3 (GCTE Task 2.2.4):
Are there other people who may be interested in attending or participating in these workshops? Please list their names and email addresses:
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