LTER Network Planning Grant: Status and Activities Mary L. Cadenasso University of California, Davis

Baltimore, MD Phoenix, AZ

Two Parts ISSE: Integrated Science for Society and the Environment LTER Planning Grant

Decade of Synthesis 10 year review 20 year anniversary

Goals and Objectives Network level Emphasize collaboration, synthesis, integration Objectives –Cross site collaboration and interdisciplinary training –LTER network governance structure –LTER science into K-12 curriculum

Objective 1: establish activities that will lead to multi-site, highly collaborative and integrated research initiatives that explicitly include synthesis components and, where appropriate, will be coupled with novel training opportunities in graduate and undergraduate education. Objective 2: evaluate existing LTER Network governance structure and further stimulate the culture of collaboration within the LTER Network. Objective 3: envision and develop education and training activities that will infuse LTER science into the K-12 science curriculum. A DECADE OF SYNTHESIS: GOALS OF THE LTER PLANNING PROCESS (from the proposal): This proposal describes an ambitious planning activity to develop a new LTER science agenda that when implemented will use the Network to its maximum potential and take LTER science to a higher level of research collaboration, synthesis and integration.

Q1: How do long-term press disturbances and short-term pulse disturbances interact to alter ecosystem structure and function? ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION Flux, transport, storage, transformation, stoichiometry, productivity COMMUNITY STRUCTURE Vegetation turnover time Trophic structure Microbial communities PULSES: Fire, drought, storms; dust events, pulse nutrient inputs; fertilization PRESSES: Climate change; nutrient loading; sea-level rise; increased human resource use Q1 Geophysical Template

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION Flux, transport, storage, transformation, stoichiometry, productivity COMMUNITY STRUCTURE Vegetation turnover time Trophic structure Microbial communities Q2 Geophysical Template Q2: How can biotic structure be both a cause and consequence of ecological fluxes of energy & matter?

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES Regulating: Nutrient filtration, nutrient retention, C sequestration, disease regulation; Provisioning: food and fiber production, Cultural: aesthetics & recreation ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION Flux, transport, storage, transformation, stoichiometry, productivity COMMUNITY STRUCTURE Vegetation turnover time Trophic structure Microbial communities Q3 Q2 Geophysical Template Q3: How do altered ecosystem dynamics affect ecosystem services?

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES Regulating: Nutrient filtration, nutrient retention, C sequestration, disease regulation; Provisioning: food and fiber production, Cultural: aesthetics & recreation HUMAN BEHAVIOR Regulation Markets Migration Institutional Q4 HUMAN OUTCOMES Exposure risk Quality of life Human health Perception and value Q4a Q4b Socio-cultural-economic Template Q4: How do changes in vital ecosystem services feed back to alter human behavior?

PULSES: Fire, drought, storms; dust events, pulse nutrient inputs; fertilization PRESSES: Climate change; nutrient loading; sea-level rise; increased human resource use HUMAN BEHAVIOR Regulation Markets Migration Institutional Q4 Q5 HUMAN OUTCOMES Exposure risk Quality of life Human health Perception and value Q4a Q4b Socio-cultural-economic Template Q5: What shapes human behavior with regard to ecosystems and how does this behavior feed back to affect ecosystem presses and pulses?

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES Regulating: Nutrient filtration, nutrient retention, C sequestration, disease regulation; Provisioning: food and fiber production, Cultural: aesthetics & recreation ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION Flux, transport, storage, transformation, stoichiometry, productivity COMMUNITY STRUCTURE Vegetation turnover time Trophic structure Microbial communities PULSES: Fire, drought, storms; dust events, pulse nutrient inputs; fertilization PRESSES: Climate change; nutrient loading; sea-level rise; increased human resource use HUMAN BEHAVIOR Regulation Markets Migration Institutional Q4 Q5 Q3 Q2 Q1 EXTERNAL DRIVERS HUMAN OUTCOMES Exposure risk Quality of life Human health Perception and value Q4a Q4b Geophysical Template Socio-cultural-economic Template

Framework Questions Q1: How do long-term press disturbances and short- term pulse disturbances interact to alter ecosystem structure and function? Q2: How can biotic structure be both a cause and consequence of ecological fluxes of energy & matter? Q3: How do altered ecosystem dynamics affect ecosystem services? Q4: How do changes in vital ecosystem services feed back to alter human behavior? Q5: What shapes human behavior with regard to ecosystems and how does this behavior feed back to affect ecosystem presses and pulses?

Q 3 -Q 5 Q1Q2Q1Q2 Q4Q5Q4Q5 Q 1 -Q 3 Q2Q3Q2Q3 Q1Q2Q1Q2 Q 1 -Q 5 Q 1 -Q 3 Q 2 -Q 5 Site Science

Network Science Site Science Q 3 -Q 5 Q1Q2Q1Q2 Q4Q5Q4Q5 Q 1 -Q 3 Q2Q3Q2Q3 Q1Q2Q1Q2 Q 1 -Q 5 Q 1 -Q 3 Q 2 -Q 5

Altered biogeochemical and water cycles Altered biotic structure Climate change and climate variability Network Science Grand Challenges Site Science Q 3 -Q 5 Q1Q2Q1Q2 Q4Q5Q4Q5 Q 1 -Q 3 Q2Q3Q2Q3 Q1Q2Q1Q2 Q 1 -Q 5 Q 1 -Q 3 Q 2 -Q 5

Climate Variability Climate Change Social-Ecological Systems Altered Biotic Structure Altered Biogeochemical Cycles Hierarchical structure of the LTER Planning Framework

How do changing climate, biogeochemical cycles, and biotic structure affect ecosystem services and dynamics with feedbacks to human behavior? Multivariate Interdisciplinary Cross-site, cross-habitat