Long-Term Ecological Research

Changing the Nature of Scientists

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

The Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program is, in a sense, an experiment to transform the nature of science, and represents one of the most effective mechanisms for catalyzing comprehensive site-based research that is collaborative, multidisciplinary, and long-term in nature. The scientific contributions of the Program are prodigious, but the broader impacts of participation have not been examined in a formal way. This book captures the consequences of participation in the Program on the perspectives, attitudes, and practices of environmental scientists.The edited volume comprises three sections. The first section includes two chapters that provide an overview of the history, goals, mission, and inner workings of the LTER network of sites. The second section comprises three dozen retrospective essays by scientists, data managers or educators who represent a broad spectrum of LTER sites from deserts to tropical forests and from arctic to marine ecosystems. Each essay addresses the same series of probing questions to uncover the extent to which participation has affected the ways that scientists conduct research, educate students, or provide outreach to the public. The final section encompasses 5 chapters, whose authors are biophysical scientists, historians, behavioral scientists, or social scientists. This section analyzes, integrates, or synthesizes the content of the previous chapters from multiple perspectives and uncovers emergent themes and future directions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-08-18
Mått:137 x 213 x 30 mm
Vikt:635 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:478
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780199380213

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Mike Willig directs the Center for Environmental Sciences & Engineering and is a Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut. He has been an active member of the Luquillo Mountains LTER site since its inception over 25 years ago.Professor Walker is an ecologist at the University of Nevada Las Vegas who studies plant succession and the disturbances, both natural and human-caused, that trigger it in many ecosystems around the world.

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"This edited volume provides insiders' views of ways that that long-term collaborative ecological research has shaped science and scientists in the U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research network. The book is a testament to the value of personal and institutional commitments to science that is much broader than the contributions of any single scientist."--F. Stuart Chapin, Professor Emeritus of Ecology, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of AlaskaFairbanks"This book is a wonderful collection of individual vignettes on how this extraordinarily successful research program has personally and professionally impacted participating scientists! It is interesting and offers profound testimony to the importance of long-term, collaborative, ecosystem-based science."--Jerry F. Franklin, Professor of Ecosystem Analysis, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington

Innehållsförteckning

INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEWChapter 1: Changing the Nature of Scientists: Participation in the Long-Term Ecological Research Program - Michael R. Willig and Lawrence R. WalkerChapter 2: Sustaining Long-Term Research: Collaboration, Multidisciplinarity and Synthesis in the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program - Robert B. WaideChapter 3: Reflections on LTER from NSF Program Directors' Perspectives - Henry L. Gholz, Robert Marinelli, and Phillip R. Taylor H. J. ANDREWS EXPERIMENTAL FOREST (AND) LTER SITEChapter 4: Streams and Dreams and Cross Site Studies - Sherri L. JohnsonChapter 5: Data, Data Everywhere - Susan G. StaffordChapter 6: Science, Citizenship, and Humanities in the Ancient Forest of Andrews - Frederick J. Swanson ARCTIC (ARC) LTER SITEChapter 7: Bridging Community and Ecosystem Ecology at the Arctic LTER Site via Collaborations - Laura GoughChapter 8: LTER in the Arctic: Where Science Never Sleeps - John E. HobbieChapter 9: Forty Arctic Summers - Gaius R. Shaver BALTIMORE ECOSYSTEM STUDY (BES) LTER SITEChapter 10: Of Fish and Platypus: If You Could Ask a Fish What It Feels Like to Swim? - J. Morgan GroveChapter 11: Long-Term Ecological Research on the Urban Frontier: Benefiting from Baltimore - Steward T.A. Pickett CEDAR CREEK ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE RESERVE (CDR) LTER SITEChapter 12: Beneficiary of a Changed Paradigm: Perspectives of a "Next-Generation" Scientist - Elizabeth T. BorerChapter 13: Listening to Nature and Letting Data Be Trump - David Tilman CENTRAL ARIZONA-PHOENIX (CAP) LTER SITEChapter 14: The Socializing of an Ecosystem Ecologist: Interdisciplinarity from a Career Spent in the LTER Network - Daniel L. ChildersChapter 15: An Urban Ecological Journey - Nancy B. Grimm COWEETA (CWT) LTER SITEChapter 16: An Anthropologist Joins the LTER Network - Ted L. Gragson FLORIDA COASTAL EVERGLADES (FCE) LTER SITEChapter 17: The Benefits of Long-Term Environmental Research, Friendships, and Boiled Peanuts - Evelyn E. Gaiser Chapter 18: Collaboration and Broadening Our Scope: Relevance of LTER Science to the Global Community - Tiffany G. Troxler JORNADA BASIN (JOR) LTER SITEChapter 19: A Dryland Ecologist's Mid-Career Retrospective on LTER and the Science-management Interface - Brandon BestelmeyerChapter 20: Tales from an LTER "Lifer" - Debra P.C. Peters KONZA PRAIRIE (KNZ) LTER SITEChapter 21: A Forest to Prairie Transition as an LTER Scientist - John BlairChapter 22: Growing-Up with the Konza Prairie LTER Program - Alan K. KnappChapter 23: Born and Bred in the LTER Network: Perspectives on Network Science and Global Collaboration - Melinda D. Smith LUQUILLO (LUQ) LTER SITEChapter 24: Confessions of a Fungal Systematist - D. Jean Lodge Chapter 25: A Glimpse of the Tropics Through Odum's Macroscope - Ariel E. LugoChapter 26: Taking the Long View: Growing Up in the LTER - Whendee L. Silver MOOREA CORAL REEF (MCR) LTER SITEChapter 27: Kelp Forests, Coral Reefs, and the LTER Program: Synergies and Impacts on a Scientific Career - Sally J. HolbrookChapter 28: The LTER Construct for Understanding Dynamics of Coral Reef Ecosystems and Its Influence on My Science - Russell J. Schmitt NIWOT RIDGE (NWT) LTER SITEChapter 29: Top of the World Collaborations: Lessons from Above Treeline - Katharine N. Suding NORTH TEMPERATE LAKES (NTL) LTER SITEChapter 30: My Evolution as an LTER Scientist - John J. Magnuson PALMER ANTARCTIC (PAL) LTER SITEChapter 31: Learning from a Frozen Ocean: The Changing Face of Antarctic Ocean Ecology - Hugh W. Ducklow PLUM ISLAND ECOSYSTEM (PIE) LTER SITEChapter 32: Mysteries in the Marsh - Anne GiblinChapter 33: Perspectives on a 30-Year Career of Salt Marsh Research - James T. Morris SANTA BARBARA COASTAL (SBC) LTER SITEChapter 34: Evolution of an Information Manager - Margaret O'Brien SEVILLETA (SEV) LTER SITEChapter 35: From LTER to NSF and Back: A Personal History of LTER Science and Management - Scott L. CollinsChapter 36: The LTER Stimulus: Research, Education, and Leadership Development at Individual and Community Levels - James R. Gosz SHORTGRASS STEPPE (SGS) LTER SITEChapter 37: LTER and Lessons from Networked Lives - John C. Moore VIRGINIA COASTAL RESERVE (VCR) LTER SITEChapter 38: Networking: From LTER to NEON - Bruce P. HaydenChapter 39: Sharing Information: Many Hands Make Light Work - John H. Porter ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESISChapter 40: Coda: Some Reflections on the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program - William H. SchlesingerChapter 41: Scholarly Learning in an Ecological Setting: Applying the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors Framework to Perceived Outcomes from Participation in the Long-Term Ecological Research Program - Mark A. Boyer and Scott W. BrownChapter 42: Exploring the Scientific and Beyond-Science Interactions of LTER Scientists - Courtney G. FlintChapter 43 Long-Term Ecological Research over the Long Term: An Historian's Perspective - Christopher HamlinChapter 44: Tradeoffs of Participation in the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program: Immediate and Long-Term Consequences - Lawrence R. Walker and Michael R. Willig