Dr. Philip Bacon, who attended the All Scientists Meeting as a representative of the proposed United Kingdom Environmental Change Network of sites (ECN), is directing publication in Ecological Modelling of a special collection of LTER papers which will explore the theme of local models of simple processes made reasonable on a wide scale by parameterization to local driving variables via GIS/database techniques.
LTER authors are currently preparing articles on the following topics:
- Extrapolating from sites to regions, decades to centuries
- Regional predictions
- Belowground processes, modeling and spatial auto-correlation of parameters
- Atmosphere/ecosystem interactions affected by local land use
- Succession modeling across sites and ecosystems
- A carbon balance model for diverse sites