We are interested in community responses to global change drivers.
We were initially funded by the the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network Office in 2012 to study patterns of community change to resource manipulation experiments. Our first two working groups resulted in a conceptual paper detailing how to study community responses to global change drivers (Avolio et al. 2015) and the compilation of 105 datasets (Komatsu et al. 2019). We are currently looking for more datasets, collaborators, and analysis ideas.
News:
News:
- Kim's data paper on our CoRRE Trait Data is published in Scientific Data. This has continuous and categorical plant trait data for 4079 herbaceous species. Check it out and use it! 100s of person hours went into collating all this trait data, not to mention the 1000s of hours it took scientists to collect the data.
- Summer 2024 Tim Ohlert's and Kaitlin Kimmel's paper on plant functional diversity metrics (using real world data) is published in PloSOne. We published this as a registered report, with the intro and methods being accepted before we did the analyses. It was a great experience.
- 2023 - Kevin Wilcox's paper on using process-based models to study grasslands in out in Global Change Biology
- Meghan's paper on how NMDS's patterns are related to rank abundance curves is published in Ecosphere.
- Adam Langley's and Emily Grman's paper on plant tradeoffs in response to global change is published in Ecology.
- For a summary of older news....please visit our old news page!
