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

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

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LTER Network Planning Grant:Status and Activities

Mary L. Cadenasso

University of California, Davis

[email protected]

Baltimore, MDBaltimore, MD

Phoenix, AZPhoenix, AZ

Two Parts

• ISSE: Integrated Science for Society and the Environment

• LTER Planning Grant

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

Q1: How do long-term press disturbances and short-term pulse disturbances interact to alter ecosystem structure and function?

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONFlux, transport, storage,

transformation, stoichiometry,

productivity

COMMUNITY STRUCTUREVegetation turnover time

Trophic structureMicrobial 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 FUNCTIONFlux, transport, storage,

transformation, stoichiometry,

productivity

COMMUNITY STRUCTUREVegetation turnover time

Trophic structureMicrobial 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 FUNCTIONFlux, transport, storage,

transformation, stoichiometry,

productivity

COMMUNITY STRUCTUREVegetation turnover time

Trophic structureMicrobial 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

RegulationMarkets

MigrationInstitutional

Q4

HUMAN OUTCOMES

Exposure riskQuality of lifeHuman 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

RegulationMarkets

MigrationInstitutional

Q4

Q5

HUMAN OUTCOMES

Exposure riskQuality of lifeHuman 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 FUNCTIONFlux, transport, storage,

transformation, stoichiometry,

productivity

COMMUNITY STRUCTUREVegetation turnover time

Trophic structureMicrobial 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

RegulationMarkets

MigrationInstitutional

Q4

Q5

Q3

Q2Q1

EXTERNAL DRIVERS

HUMAN OUTCOMES

Exposure riskQuality of lifeHuman health

Perception and value

Q4a

Q4b

Geophysical Template

Socio-cultural-economic Template

Q3-Q5

Q1Q2 Q4Q5

Q1-Q3

Q2Q3

Q1Q2

Q1-Q5

Q1-Q3

Q1-Q3

Q2-Q5SiteScience

NetworkScience

SiteScience

Q3-Q5

Q1Q2 Q4Q5

Q1-Q3

Q2Q3

Q1Q2

Q1-Q5

Q1-Q3

Q1-Q3

Q2-Q5

Altered biogeochemicaland water cycles Altered biotic structure

Climate change andclimate variability

NetworkScience

GrandChallenges

SiteScience

Q3-Q5

Q1Q2 Q4Q5

Q1-Q3

Q2Q3

Q1Q2

Q1-Q5

Q1-Q3

Q1-Q3

Q2-Q5

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