2015 LTER Mini-Symposium talks available for viewing and download

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Network News Summer 2015, Vol. 28 No. 2
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Network News
Video and narrated PowerPoint available for select presentations.

Early this year the annual Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Mini-Symposium scheduled for Thursday, March 5, 2015, had to be postponed when inclement weather forced the closure of the National Science Foundation (NSF) (see http://bit.ly/1NkuT9Q). At the time we reported that webcasts of the talks would be presented in blocks of two or three at a later date and time. Those webcasts and PowerPoint narrations are now available for viewing or download (see highlighted links in the detailed agenda below, after a brief introduction).

Detailed agenda with linked talks where available:

8:30am

Welcome and Opening Comments
Saran Twombly (NSF Division of Environmental Biology), Peter Groffman (Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and Baltimore Ecosystem Studies, Hubbard Brook LTER sites)

8:45am

Grasslands and multi-year drought: using long-term data to inform past mysteries and minimize future surprises
Debra Peters (New Mexico State University and Jornada site)

9:15am

Timing is everything: Understanding short- and long-term variability in light and temperature on inter-biome freshwater ecosystem production
John Kominoski (Florida International University and Florida Coastal Everglades LTER site)

9:45am

Forest Net primary production: Examining spatial and temporal heterogeneity within the LTER Network
Mark Harmon (Oregon State University and H.J. Andrews LTER site)

10:15am

Break

10:30am

Marsh equilibrium theory: feedbacks and tipping points
James Morris (University of South Carolina and Plum Island Ecosystem LTER site)

11:00am

The changing nature of trophic cascades at high latitudes
Roger Ruess (University of Alaska Fairbanks and Bonanza Creek LTER site)

11:30am

Primary production in human-dominated ecosystems:  Responses to human activities and provisioning of ecosystem services
Emma Rosi-Marshall (Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and Baltimore Ecosystem Studies LTER site) 

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