Long-Term Ecological Research

Changing the Nature of Scientists
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-938021-3
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 478 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 878 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Willig, Michael R.

Walker, Lawrence R.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Denkansätze und Ideologie der Umweltschützer
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutzorganisationen, Naturschützer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW

- Chapter 1: Changing the Nature of Scientists: Participation in the Long-Term Ecological Research Program - Michael R. Willig and Lawrence R. Walker

- Chapter 2: Sustaining Long-Term Research: Collaboration, Multidisciplinarity and Synthesis in the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program - Robert B. Waide

- Chapter 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 SITE

- Chapter 4: Streams and Dreams and Cross Site Studies - Sherri L. Johnson

- Chapter 5: Data, Data Everywhere - Susan G. Stafford

- Chapter 6: Science, Citizenship, and Humanities in the Ancient Forest of Andrews - Frederick J. Swanson

- ARCTIC (ARC) LTER SITE

- Chapter 7: Bridging Community and Ecosystem Ecology at the Arctic LTER Site via Collaborations - Laura Gough

- Chapter 8: LTER in the Arctic: Where Science Never Sleeps - John E. Hobbie

- Chapter 9: Forty Arctic Summers - Gaius R. Shaver

- BALTIMORE ECOSYSTEM STUDY (BES) LTER SITE

- Chapter 10: Of Fish and Platypus: If You Could Ask a Fish What It Feels Like to Swim? - J. Morgan Grove

- Chapter 11: Long-Term Ecological Research on the Urban Frontier: Benefiting from Baltimore - Steward T.A. Pickett

- CEDAR CREEK ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE RESERVE (CDR) LTER SITE

- Chapter 12: Beneficiary of a Changed Paradigm: Perspectives of a "Next-Generation " Scientist - Elizabeth T. Borer

- Chapter 13: Listening to Nature and Letting Data Be Trump - David Tilman

- CENTRAL ARIZONA-PHOENIX (CAP) LTER SITE

- Chapter 14: The Socializing of an Ecosystem Ecologist: Interdisciplinarity from a Career Spent in the LTER Network - Daniel L. Childers

- Chapter 15: An Urban Ecological Journey - Nancy B. Grimm

- COWEETA (CWT) LTER SITE

- Chapter 16: An Anthropologist Joins the LTER Network - Ted L. Gragson

- FLORIDA COASTAL EVERGLADES (FCE) LTER SITE

- Chapter 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 SITE

- Chapter 19: A Dryland Ecologist's Mid-Career Retrospective on LTER and the Science-management Interface - Brandon Bestelmeyer

- Chapter 20: Tales from an LTER "Lifer " - Debra P.C. Peters

- KONZA PRAIRIE (KNZ) LTER SITE

- Chapter 21: A Forest to Prairie Transition as an LTER Scientist - John Blair

- Chapter 22: Growing-Up with the Konza Prairie LTER Program - Alan K. Knapp

- Chapter 23: Born and Bred in the LTER Network: Perspectives on Network Science and Global Collaboration - Melinda D. Smith

- LUQUILLO (LUQ) LTER SITE

- Chapter 24: Confessions of a Fungal Systematist - D. Jean Lodge

- Chapter 25: A Glimpse of the Tropics Through Odum's Macroscope - Ariel E. Lugo

- Chapter 26: Taking the Long View: Growing Up in the LTER - Whendee L. Silver

- MOOREA CORAL REEF (MCR) LTER SITE

- Chapter 27: Kelp Forests, Coral Reefs, and the LTER Program: Synergies and Impacts on a Scientific Career - Sally J. Holbrook

- Chapter 28: The LTER Construct for Understanding Dynamics of Coral Reef Ecosystems and Its Influence on My Science - Russell J. Schmitt

- NIWOT RIDGE (NWT) LTER SITE

- Chapter 29: Top of the World Collaborations: Lessons from Above Treeline - Katharine N. Suding

- NORTH TEMPERATE LAKES (NTL) LTER SITE

- Chapter 30: My Evolution as an LTER Scientist - John J. Magnuson

- PALMER ANTARCTIC (PAL) LTER SITE

- Chapter 31: Learning from a Frozen Ocean: The Changing Face of Antarctic Ocean Ecology - Hugh W. Ducklow

- PLUM ISLAND ECOSYSTEM (PIE) LTER SITE

- Chapter 32: Mysteries in the Marsh - Anne Giblin

- Chapter 33: Perspectives on a 30-Year Career of Salt Marsh Research - James T. Morris

- SANTA BARBARA COASTAL (SBC) LTER SITE

- Chapter 34: Evolution of an Information Manager - Margaret O'Brien

- SEVILLETA (SEV) LTER SITE

- Chapter 35: From LTER to NSF and Back: A Personal History of LTER Science and Management - Scott L. Collins

- Chapter 36: The LTER Stimulus: Research, Education, and Leadership Development at Individual and Community Levels - James R. Gosz

- SHORTGRASS STEPPE (SGS) LTER SITE

- Chapter 37: LTER and Lessons from Networked Lives - John C. Moore

- VIRGINIA COASTAL RESERVE (VCR) LTER SITE

- Chapter 38: Networking: From LTER to NEON - Bruce P. Hayden

- Chapter 39: Sharing Information: Many Hands Make Light Work - John H. Porter

- ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS

- Chapter 40: Coda: Some Reflections on the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program - William H. Schlesinger

- Chapter 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. Brown

- Chapter 42: Exploring the Scientific and Beyond: Science Interactions of LTER Scientists - Courtney G. Flint

- Chapter 43 Long-Term Ecological Research over the Long Term: An Historian's Perspective - Christopher Hamlin

- Chapter 44: Tradeoffs of Participation in the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program: Immediate and Long-Term Consequences - Lawrence R. Walker and Michael R. Willig

Über Autor(innen)

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.