Things that were....
- December 2019. We had a great first sDiv meeting in Leipzig and loved the Christmas markets.
- October 2019. Meghan's paper on approaches to studying community dynamics is published in Ecosphere!
- August 2019. Kim's first big synthesis paper on community responses to GCDs is published in PNAS!
- June 2019. Meghan Avolio and Kim Komatsu (formerly La Pierre) get an sDiv working group funded to study traits!
- May 2019. Meghan, Kim, Kevin, Sally, Emily and Adam have a three-day meeting to get several papers ready for writing before our last meeting at NCEAS in July.
- March 2019. Codyn update released on CRAN introducing new functions to do community analyses.
- October 2018. We hold our last of three meeting with processes-based modelers at NCEAS!
- August 2018. Meghan Avolio presents at ESA on plant community changes in global change experiments.
- July 2018. Adam Langley's paper on population changes in ambient and experimental conditions in accepted at Global Change Biology.
- June 2018. Meghan Avolio and collaborators update to the codyn package (codyn 2.0) to analyze communities.
- March 2018. Meghan Avolio, Kim La Pierre, Kevin Wilcox, Emily Grman and Andrew Tredennick meet to work on a community change paper at SERC and then Meghan's living room during a snow storm.
- February 2018. Kim La Pierre, Meghan Avolio and Kevin Wilcox lead an LTER synthesis webinar. Watch it on YouTube!
- November 2017. Kevin Wilcox's paper on community asynchrony is published in Ecology Letters!
- October 2017. We have our second LTER synthesis workshop engaging community ecologist and Earth system modelers in Fort Collins, CO.
- February 2017. We have our first LTER synthesis workshop at NCEAS.
- August 2016. Kim La Pierre presents results from first synthesis paper in an ESA organized oral session "Generalities and contingencies with multiple global change drivers: Diminishing effects or amplified consequences?" led by Sally Koerner, Kim La Pierre, and Meghan Avolio.
- June 2016. Kim La Pierre, Meghan Avolio, and Kevin Wilcox got funding from the new LTER Network Communications Office at NCEAS to work on linking community and ecosystem responses to resource manipulations.
- December 2015. Our first paper was published in Ecosphere!
- November 2015. We had a working group at Konza Prairie, KS to work on current projects and analyses. We made great progress towards two first synthesis papers!
- September 2015. At the LTER All Scientist Meeting Kimberly La Pierre, Sally Koerner, and Kevin Wilcox ran a working group that generated several more paper ideas that will be led by many new collaborators.
- August 2015. Kimberly La Pierre presented our synthesis results at ESA.
- July 2015. Our first paper was accepted at Ecosphere.
- July 2015. Meghan Avolio was awarded a SESYNC-LTER Synthesis Postdoctoral Fellowship to develop new ways of using Rank Abundance Curves (RACs) to study patterns of community change. Her proposed research is a direct outcome of the original working group. She is being co-mentored by Greg Houseman and Scott Collins.