The January 2003 issue of the journal BioScience features a special section of articles reviewing the insights gained from the U.S. LTER Network, including comprehensive bibliographies. The special section represents the first such production since the early 1990s. Reprints are available from the LTER Network Office (office@lternet.edu)
Bioscience, Vol 53 No 1
- Scientific Accomplishments of the Long Term Ecological Research Program: An Introduction (John E. Hobbie) pp 17-21
- The US Long Term Ecological Research Program (John E. Hobbie, Stephen R. Carpenter, Nancy B. Grimm, James R. Gosz, And Timothy R. Seastedt) pp 17-32
- Long-Term Research on Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions (David Greenland, Bruce P. Hayden, John J. Magnuson, Scott V. Ollinger, Roger A. Pielke Sr., and Raymond C. Smith) pp 33-45
- Disturbance Dynamics and Ecological Response: the Contribution of Long-Term Ecological Research (Monica G. Turner, Scott L. Collins, Ariel E. Lugo, John J. Magnuson, T. Scott Rupp, and Frederick J. Swanson) pp 46-56
- Ecological Variability in Space and Time: Insights Gained from the U.S. LTER Program (Timothy K. Kratz, Linda A. Deegan, Mark E. Harmon, and William K. Lauenroth) pp 57-67
- Using Mechanistic Models to Scale Ecological Processes across Space and Time (Edward B. Rastetter, John D. Aber, Debra C. Peters, Dennis S. Ojima, and Ingrid C. Burke) pp 68-76
- The Importance of Land-Use Legacies to Ecology and Conservation (David Foster, Frederick J. Swanson, John D. Aber, Ingrid Burke, Nicholas Brokaw, David Tilman, and Alan Knapp) pp 77-88
- Long-Term and Large-Scale Perspectives on the Relationship between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (Amy J. Symstad, F. Stuart Chapin III, Diana H. Wall, Katherine L. Gross, Laura F. Huenneke, Gary G. Mittelbach, Debra C. Peters, and David Tilman) pp 89-98
Special Journal Issue Features Findings from Harvard Forest LTER
This fall the Harvard Forest LTER published a Special Issue of the Journal of Biogeography (Volume 29; October/November 2002) entitled Insights From Historical Geography to Ecology and Conservation: Lessons from the New England Landscape. The volume, edited by David Foster with assistance From Glenn Motzkin and Dave Orwig, contains 20 papers covering diverse topics: paleoecological, dendrochronological and witness tree studies of long-term vegetation dynamics; historical analyses of wildlife and land cover changes; ecosystem consequences of introduced pests and pathogens; controls of land-use history on modern vegetation patterns; and conservation directions for the New England landscape.
The Journal of Biogeography can be accessed on the HFR Website: http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/publications.html
Sevilleta LTER Research Featured on Cover of Bioscience
Sevilleta LTER’s article "The Ecology and Evolutionary History of an Emergent Disease: Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome" is featured on the cover of the November 2002 issue of BioScience. The publication represents the work of more than 16 investigators, a network of nine study sites spanning three states, evidence from two El Niños, and a decade of research.