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Collaborations
Integrating above- and belowground community data to understand ecosystem temporal dynamics and responses to global change
I am a co-PI of a Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network SPARC Working Group. We are integrating aboveground plant and belowground microbial community data to assess the synchrony and coupling of communities in response to global change drivers. The connectivity of these communities is fundamental to ecosystem functions and services, and ecosystem responses to global change cannot be sufficiently understood by considering these components independently.
Read more about the project here, and follow our progress here.
We are leveraging data from research networks like LTER and NEON to build a robust dataset across ecosystems, but we are always looking for more data! If you have data of community metrics for plants and microbes, sampled together and repeatedly over time, please reach out.
Our team began as fellows in the Synthesis Skills for Early Career Researchers (SSECR) course, organized by the LTER Network and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS). This course offered a curriculum on synthesis and team science skills and will be offered again. We highly recommend!
SPARC Working Group co-PI's at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) in Santa Barbara, CA, October 2024. Left to right: Abigail Borgmeier (Brigham Young University), Dr. Ashley Bulseco (University of New Hampshire), Dr. Smriti Pehim Limbu (Dartmouth College), McKinley Nevins (Washington State University), and Dr. Francis Chaves Rodriguez.