Transcript BES and the LTER Planning Grant

LTER Network Planning Grant:
Status and Activities
Mary L. Cadenasso
University of California, Davis
[email protected]
Phoenix, AZ
Baltimore, MD
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
Geophysical Template
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
ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION
Flux, transport, storage,
transformation,
stoichiometry, productivity
Q1: How do long-term press disturbances and
short-term pulse disturbances interact to alter
ecosystem structure and function?
Geophysical Template
COMMUNITY STRUCTURE
Vegetation turnover time
Trophic structure
Microbial communities
Q2
ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION
Flux, transport, storage,
transformation,
stoichiometry, productivity
Q2: How can biotic structure be both a cause and
consequence of ecological fluxes of energy & matter?
Geophysical Template
COMMUNITY STRUCTURE
Vegetation turnover time
Trophic structure
Microbial communities
Q3: How do altered ecosystem
dynamics affect ecosystem services?
Q2
ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION
Flux, transport, storage,
transformation,
stoichiometry, productivity
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
Regulating: Nutrient
filtration, nutrient
retention, C sequestration,
disease regulation;
Provisioning: food and
fiber production, Cultural:
aesthetics & recreation
Q3
Socio-cultural-economic
Template
HUMAN
BEHAVIOR
Q4: How do changes in vital
ecosystem services feed back to alter
human behavior?
Regulation
Markets
Migration
Institutional
Q4b
HUMAN
OUTCOMES
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
Q4
Exposure risk
Quality of life
Human health
Perception and value
Q4a
Regulating: Nutrient
filtration, nutrient
retention, C sequestration,
disease regulation;
Provisioning: food and
fiber production, Cultural:
aesthetics & recreation
Socio-cultural-economic
Template
PULSES: Fire, drought,
storms; dust events,
pulse nutrient inputs;
fertilization
HUMAN
BEHAVIOR
Regulation
Markets
Migration
Institutional
Q5
PRESSES: Climate
change; nutrient loading;
sea-level rise; increased
human resource use
Q4b
HUMAN
OUTCOMES
Q4
Exposure risk
Quality of life
Human health
Perception and value
Q4a
Q5: What shapes human
behavior with regard to
ecosystems and how does this
behavior feed back to affect
ecosystem presses and pulses?
Geophysical Template
EXTERNAL DRIVERS
Socio-cultural-economic
Template
PULSES: Fire, drought,
storms; dust events,
pulse nutrient inputs;
fertilization
HUMAN
BEHAVIOR
Regulation
Markets
Migration
Institutional
COMMUNITY STRUCTURE
Vegetation turnover time
Trophic structure
Microbial communities
Q5
PRESSES: Climate
change; nutrient loading;
sea-level rise; increased
human resource use
Q2
Q1
ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION
Flux, transport, storage,
transformation,
stoichiometry, productivity
Q4b
HUMAN
OUTCOMES
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
Q4
Exposure risk
Quality of life
Human health
Perception and value
Q4a
Regulating: Nutrient
filtration, nutrient
retention, C sequestration,
disease regulation;
Provisioning: food and
fiber production, Cultural:
aesthetics & recreation
Q3
Site
Science
Q1-Q3
Q3-Q5
Q 1 Q2
Q4 Q5
Q1 Q2
Q2 Q3
Q2-Q5
Q1-Q3
Q1-Q5
Q1-Q3
Network
Science
Site
Science
Q1-Q3
Q3-Q5
Q1 Q2
Q 4 Q5
Q1 Q2
Q2 Q3
Q2-Q5
Q1-Q3
Q1-Q5
Q1-Q3
Grand
Challenges
Altered biogeochemical
and water cycles
Altered biotic structure
Climate change and
climate variability
Network
Science
Site
Science
Q1-Q3
Q3-Q5
Q1 Q2
Q 4 Q5
Q1 Q2
Q2 Q3
Q2-Q5
Q1-Q3
Q1-Q5
Q1-Q3
Hierarchical structure of the LTER Planning Framework
Climate Variability
Social-Ecological Systems
Altered
Biotic
Structure
Altered
Biogeochemical
Cycles
Climate Change
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