原本打算将此帖放在群组，可惜群组这玩艺不太好玩，常常传不了图片、加不了链接，不是群主的话，半小时后就失去了修改权、撤销权。  

      本文根据白珍建博友的博客主页（http://blog.sciencenet.cn/home.php?mod=space&uid=597651）提供的链接整理，特此说明。从网页看，她（注：根据白珍建博友的回复，原来是“他”）是一位研究生，将自己收集的网站拿来与网友们分享，但因仅有超链接，没有列出具体的网址，本博逐一点击后并作了不少增补。

Collins                                               http://temperate.lternet.edu/collins/

The Collins Lab

PLANT COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

Scott L. Collins scollins@sevilleta.unm.edu  505.277.6303 Scott is currently Professor of Biology & Director of the Sevilleta LTER. His research interests include plant community dynamics; gradient models and structure; the role of disturbance in communities; fire ecology; patch dynamics; landscape ecology; grassland ecology; analysis of species distribution and abundance; pulse dynamics in aridland ecosystems.

Welcome! Our research focuses on the impact of natural disturbances and global environmental change on mesic and arid grassland ecosystems. We are particularly interested in the interactive effects of fire, grazing and drought in mesic grasslands in North America and South Africa, and how rainfall variability, temperature change, and shrub encroachment affect aridland ecosystems in the southwestern US.

 Harte                                          http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~hartelab/

In the Harte Lab, we study global change ecology and spatial patterns of species distributions.

John Harte, Professor Energy and Resources Group (ERG) Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management (ESPM)

Walker                                           http://www.unlv.edu/lifesciences

http://www.unlv.edu/lifesciences/research

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Smith           http://www.yale.edu/smithlab/html%20files/index.html

http://www.yale.edu/smithlab/html%20files/smithpeople.html

People of the Smith Lab

Melinda D. Smith, Principal InvestigatorAssociate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Yale University
Box 208106
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520-8106 USA
phone: (203) 432 9422
Email: melinda.smith@yale.edu

Zavaleta        http://people.ucsc.edu/~zavaleta/index.html

Erika Zavaleta (Professor)

We pursue research to enhance the stewardship, understanding and appreciation of wild ecosystems. Our projects focus on terrestrial ecosystems and plant communities, links between biodiversity and human well-being, and the implications of interacting global and regional environmental changes. We work with a wide range of NGOs, government agencies, land managers and community members to bridge strong science to effective action.

 Hungate        http://www4.nau.edu/Hungate_Lab/

Northern Arizona University

Research in our group focuses on the roles of plants and microorganisms in ecosystem processes, especially carbon, water, and nutrient cycling. A major thrust of our research examines biogeochemical responses to global changes, such as rising atmospheric CO2, climate change, N deposition, and altered land use. For example, we are currently studying how elevated CO2 alters the hydrology of scrub woodlands, and how increased temperature influences the nitrogen cycle in grasslands. In addition to understanding ecosystem responses to such perturbations, we are also interested in how ecosystem responses can feed back to alter the pace and even direction of future global changes. A second major thrust of our research addresses how single species can affect ecosystem processes, for example, how infestation with the piñon-needle scale alters the water budget of piñon-juniper woodlands, or how mycorrhizae influence decomposition of fine roots.

Harpole         http://www.public.iastate.edu/~harpole/ 

Classen        http://web.utk.edu/~aclassen/Home.html

Research in the ecosystem ecology laboratory focuses on the plant-soil interface and how abiotic and biotic factors interact to shape ecosystem structure and function.

Aimée Classen

Maja Sundqvist

Assistant Professor, Umeå University

PI of the Ecosystem Ecology Lab; Aimée’s CV is here

Associate professor, University of Copenhagen, 2014-

Associate Editor-in-Chief, Ecological Monographs, 2012-

Associate professor, University of Tennessee, 2012-

Assistant professor, University of Tennessee, 2008-12

Staff scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2005-08

PhD, Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, 2004

Sala             http://sala.lab.asu.edu/

          Osvaldo E. Sala

We have worked in many regions of the world from the Patagonian Steppe and grasslands of the Great Plains of North America to arid ecosystems of South Africa and the annual grasslands of California. Currently, most of the experimental work is focused on the Chihuahuan Desert, at the Jornada Long Term Ecological Researchsite. Our research effort is closely integrated with our education and outreach mission. We collaborate with several institutions beyond Arizona State University including Asombro Institute for Science Education and SARAS.

Suding          http://nature.berkeley.edu/sudinglab-wp/  

Katharine Suding

Research Group(s): Suding Group  

Office Hours: By Appointment. Please sign up on the lab calender. For login information, contact me or Liana Nichols (liana at berkeley.edu)

Research Interests

Plant Community Ecology; Restoration, Invasion biology, Environmental change, Conservation

Research Description

I am a plant community ecologist working at the interface of ecosystem, landscape and population biology. My goal is to apply cutting-edge “usable” science to the challenges of restoration, species invasion, and environmental change. My research group…[read more]

Hooper        http://fire.biol.wwu.edu/hooper/index.html

                         David Hooper

Department of BiologyWestern Washington UniversityBellingham, WA  98225-9160

phone: (360) 650-3649, FAX: (360) 650-3148email: hooper@biol.wwu.edu

Vitousek      http://www.stanford.edu/group/Vitousek/index.html

The Vitousek Group and colleagues carry out research related to nutrient cycling, most notably nitrogen and phosphorus, throughout the range of environments and ecosystems. The Hawaiian Islands are the focus of the majority of studies. Our group has looked at nutrient dynamics in the soil profile, litter, native forest ecosystems, forest and grassland systems affected by invasive species and agricultural systems. Studies have documented how an invasive grass has changed the fire frequency and suppressed the ability of the native forest to return. How an invasive nitrogen fixing tree changes the nutrient dynamics in the soil and facilitates further encroachment by other non-native plants.

 
TERACC        http://www.umaine.edu/teracc/

Terrestrial Ecosystem Response to Atmospheric Climatic Change

TERACC is an international research coordination network of global change scientists that was initiated in 2001.  The goals of TERACC are to:

1. Integrate and synthesize existing whole ecosystem research on ecosystem responses to individual global change drivers.

2. Foster new research on whole-ecosystem responses to the combined effects of elevated atmospheric CO2, warming, and other aspects of global change, such as changes in precipitation and increased N deposition.

3. Promote better communication and integration between empiricists, experimentalists and modelers.

Through these efforts, TERRAC  hopes to better integrate observational, experimental, and modeling techniques into a unified multidisciplinary approach to understanding ecosystem response to global change .

 
LTER            http://www.lternet.edu/

The Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network was created by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1980 to conduct research on ecological issues that can last decades and span huge geographical areas.

UKREATE     http://ukreate.defra.gov.uk/index.htm

 UK Research on The Eutrophication and Acidification of Terrestrial Ecosystems

The UKREATE Project:

The UKREATE umbrella project is funded by the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). The umbrella consists of a consortium coordinated by Prof Bridget Emmett at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) in Bangor, and a Defra project Officer, William Cook.

The aims of the project are to:

Collate dat which provide evidence for damage or recovery in a range of terrestrial habitats due to nitrogen deposition.

Determine whether factors such as the form of nitrogen, grazing pressure or traits of plants present modify the impacts observed.

Test proposed indicators of change in both experimental and survey settings.

Clarify what determines the fate of nitrogen in soil which acts as the main sink for nitrogen.

Contribute to the development of linked ecosystem model chains to forecast likelytiming responses in both soils, vegetation composition and their interdependance.

Collate survey data and continue long term manipulation experiments to help test and develop model chains.

Examine the potential modifying and interactive effects of climate change with the effects of nitrogen deposition.

Support the UK National Focal Centre for Critical Loads Mapping. Provide knowledge transfer to a range of stakeholders and contribute to the Review of Transboundary Air Pollution (RoTAP).

NutNet        http://www.nutnet.umn.edu/

Nutrient Network: A Global Research Cooperative

Welcome to the Nutrient Network!

Two of the most pervasive human impacts on ecosystems are alteration of global nutrient budgets and changes in the abundance and identity of consumers. Fossil fuel combustion and agricultural fertilization have doubled and quintupled, respectively, global pools of nitrogen and phosphorus relative to pre-industrial levels. Concurrently, habitat loss and degradation and selective hunting and fishing disproportionately remove consumers from food webs. At the same time, humans are adding consumers to food webs for endpoints such as conservation, recreation, and agriculture, as well as accidental introductions of invasive consumer species. In spite of the global impacts of these human activities, there have been no globally coordinated experiments to quantify the general impacts on ecological systems. The Nutrient Network (NutNet) is a grassroots research effort to address these questions within a coordinated research network comprised of more than 40 grassland sites worldwide.

NutNet focal research questions:

How general is our current understanding of productivity-diversity relationships?

To what extent are plant production and diversity co-limited by multiple nutrients in herbaceous-dominated communities?

Under what conditions do grazers or fertilization control plant biomass, diversity, and composition?

NutNet goals:

To collect data from a broad range of sites in a consistent manner to allow direct comparisons of environment-productivity-diversity relationships among systems around the world. This is currently occurring at each site in the network and, when these data are compiled, will allow us to provide new insights into several important, unanswered questions in ecology.

To implement a cross-site experiment requiring only nominal investment of time and resources by each investigator, but quantifying community and ecosystem responses in a wide range of herbaceous-dominated ecosystems (i.e., desert grasslands to arctic tundra).

NutNet membership:

NutNet membership is open to ecologists who are committed to either intiating a new NutNet node, collaborating with researchers at an exitisting network site, or furthering the network goals in other substantive ways. There are two primary rules of membership:

You must play well with other members of the team, and

You must carefully follow the research protocol for the core sampling.

PrecipiNet     http://precipnet.ucsc.edu/ 

PrecipNet is a Research Coordination Network focusing on the impacts of anthropogenic climate change precipitation timing, magnitude, and variability on biological communities, ecosystem processes, and human society.

 The mission of PrecipNet is to promote communication, intellectual exchange, and integration of methods and results across ecological, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries. Participants include climatologists, plant and ecosystem scientists, and social scientists.

ILTER           http://www.ilternet.edu/

International Long Term Ecological Research - Welcome!

ILTER is a 'network of networks', a global network of research sites located in a wide array of ecosystems that can help understand environmental change across the globe. ILTER's focus is on long-term, site-based research and monitoring.

"ILTER’s vision is a world in which science helps prevent and solve environmental and socioecological problems"

ILTER can contribute to solving international ecological and socio-economic problems through question and problem-driven research, with a unique ability to design collaborative, site-based projects, compare data from a global network of sites and detect global trends.

Most ILTER members are national or regional networks of scientists engaged in long-term, site-based ecological and socio-economic research (known as LTER or LTSER). They have expertise in the collection, management and analysis of long-term environmental data. Together they are responsible for creating and maintaining a large number of unique long-term datasets.

PC-ORD        http://home.centurytel.net/~mjm/index.htm 一种生态学软件

PC-ORD performs multivariate analysis of ecological data entered in spreadsheets.  Our emphasis is on nonparametric tools, graphical representation, randomization tests, and bootstrapped confidence intervals for analysis of community data.  In addition to utilities for transforming data and managing files, PC-ORD offers many ordination and classification techniques not available in major statistical packages including: CCA, DCA, Indicator Species Analysis, Mantel tests and partial Mantel tests, MRPP, PCoA, perMANOVA, RDA, two-way clustering, TWINSPAN, Beals smoothing, diversity indices, species lists, many ordination overlay methods (quantitative, symbol-coding, color-coding, grid, joint plot, biplot, successional vector), various rotation methods, 3-D ordination graphics, Bray-Curtis ordination, city-block distance measures, species-area curves, tree data summaries, publication-quality dendrograms, autopilot mode nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMS or NMDS).  Very large data sets can be analyzed.  Most operations accept a matrix up to 32,000 rows or 32,000 columns and up to 536,848,900 matrix elements, provided that you have adequate memory in your computer.  The terminology is tailored for ecologists.  The full manual is included as a context-sensitive help system.

del Moral     http://faculty.washington.edu/moral/index.html 

Plant Ecology Lab in the Department of Biology

Studying the recovery of barren landscapes since 1980.

Roger del Moral
Professor of Biology
Dr. del Moral received his doctorate with C. H. Muller at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1968. He immediately joined the Botany Department at the University of Washington. Here he began a series of studies of vegetation patterns in forests and alpine sites. In 1976-1977, he spent a year in Australia at the CSIRO in Queensland and at Melbourne University. Along with David Ashton, he was the first to demonstrate that Eucalyptus inhibited native Australian shrubs in nature. His pioneering work on plant competition in stable alpine habitats was interrupted by the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. He was among the first ecologists to begin study of the recovery of this volcano, studies which have produced one of the longest continuous records of primary succession now extant. In 1984, he worked on reclamation of derelict sites in the U.K. (with A. D. Bradshaw, A. Fitter and M. Chadwick), while in 1985 he was introduced to a wide variety of Japanese volcanoes (S. Kawano, H. Tagawa, M. Numata, M. Shizuoka). He has explored volcanoes in the Russian Far East with Sergei Grishin), in Sicily with Prof. Emilia Poli Marchese (during his Sabbatical), in Iceland (Hekla and Surtsey) with Dr. Borgthor Magnusson and in New Zealand with Professor Bruce Clarkson. In 2007, he published Environmental disasters, natural recovery and human responses, a general book on restoring the landscape using the lessons gained from nature.
Research Interests 
Dr. del Moral has studied and described vegetation structure in forests, prairies, wetlands and meadows throughout Washington. His approach is deductive, rather than purely inductive, in that his projects test a priori hypotheses rather than merely describing communities. He has studied factors that control community structure in stable communities, but since 1980, his work has centered on primary succession and its relationship to restoration. Most of this work has explored the mechanisms of vegetation recovery on Mount St. Helens, but he has conducted research on several other volcanoes.  A series of papers have combined long-term plot records, focused field experiments and laboratory trials to explore mechanisms of primary succession. Several bits of "conventional wisdom" have been modified or shown to be overly simple. Stochastic processes are very important during early succession and landscape effects, more than any other factor, dictate the nature of early species assemblages. In contrast to prevailing theory, abiotic amelioration is much more important that biotic facilitation, physical safe-sites are initially more important than nurse plant effects, refugia contribute little to the development of their surroundings, and mycorrhizae play a very limited role on volcanic succession. His studies in Japan and the Russian Far East have shown that similar processes have controlled succession on volcanoes in these regions. In Sicily, working on Mount Etna, he has found that there has been little vegetation convergence on lavas during eight centuries. In 2005, the 50th paper from his lab concerning primary succession was published.  With Lars Walker of UNLV, he completed a book on the current concepts of primary succession that summarizes the historical and developing concepts surrounding how landscapes are recolonized after devastating disturbances. Widely recognized as a major synthesis of the state of knowledge in primary succession, the book has won praise from ecologists and restorationists alike.
In 2007, he published a book on ecological responses to natural disasters intended for a more general public. He and Lawrence Walker hopes that this book stimulates a wider knowledge of ecological principles in the service of great quality of life.
His doctoral students have also worked on a many projects. Rex Cates performed ground-breaking studies in plant-animal chemical interactions. Ted Hinds produced detailed energy budgets for cheat grass communities. The late Joy Belsky quantified environmental gradients in subalpine meadows, while Martha Cushman developed predictive models to relate vegetation structure to avalanche frequency. Virginia H. Dale modeled bumblebee foraging behavior in alpine habitats of Mount Rainier, while David Wood demonstrated that successional sequences were based on contingent factors. C. L. Huang showed how competition altered expected successional pathways. More recently, Jon Titus developed elegant experiments that demonstrated that primary succession on Mount St. Helens did NOT require mycorrhizae, while Dennis Riege demonstrated that old-field succession in the Olympic Rainforest was controlled largely by competition from introduced herbs. Chad Jones completed his study of invasions of glacier forelands in the North Cascades and Tara Fletcher Ramsey recently finished a though study of the mechanisms by which ivy invades natural vegetation.  Current students are investigating several aspects of succession on Mount St. Helens.

Mark Bradford    http://bradfordlab.com/

Hi, you’ve reached the homepage of the Bradford lab group at Yale University’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Our research explores two main questions:

How do plants and soil organisms respond to environmental change?

How do these responses affect ecosystem function, especially the movement and storage of carbon in soils?

Why focus on carbon and ecosystems? Soils and plants store huge quantities of carbon. Disturbances that degrade ecosystems release this into the atmosphere – in forms such as carbon dioxide – contributing to our changing climate. But soils and ecosystems are much more than reservoirs for carbon – their health is directly tied to water purification, flood prevention, maintenance of biodiversity, and agricultural production. Understanding how and why plants, animals, microbes and soils respond to environmental change will therefore help us understand the consequences for human well-being, and how we might manage them.

We use experimental and observational approaches to investigate these effects of global change, both in the field and laboratory. We primarily work across forests and grasslands in the north and south of the eastern United States.

The overall goal of our research is to provide the necessary mechanistic understanding required for reliable prediction of global change impacts on ecosystems, and their likely feedbacks to the climate system.

Wilsey        http://www.public.iastate.edu/~bwilsey/homepage.htm

Brian J. Wilsey

B.S. 1986 Henderson State University

M.S. 1988 Louisiana State University
Ph.D. 1995 Syracuse University

Title and Mailing Address:
Associate Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology,
253 Bessey Hall,
Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-1020
Office: 131 Bessey Hall
Lab: 40 Bessey Hall
Phone: (515)294-0232
Fax: (515)294-1337
E-mail: bwilsey@iastate.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS OF THE WILSEY LABIn the Wilsey lab, we are interested in the ecology of prairie grasslands. Tallgrass prairies are among the most species-diverse ecosystems. We commonly count 20-30 plant species in Iowa within small quadrats (0.4 m2), and most small prairies (< 10 ha) support more than one hundred species ( Martin et al. 2005, Wilsey et al. 2005a). It is still largely unknown how this very high species diversity develops and is maintained over time. Developing a better understanding of mechanisms behind diversity maintenance is a central focus of work in the lab (e.g. Wilsey et al. 2005, Polley et al. 2005, Martin and Wilsey 2006, Isbell et al. 2009, Wilsey et al. 2009). Furthermore, we are studying how changes in species diversity influence community stability and ecosystem process rates (i.e. ecosystem services).

Power         http://www.uws.edu.au/staff_profiles/uws_profiles/doctor_sally_power

 Doctor Sally Power    ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR,  Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment

Gough        http://www.uta.edu/biology/gough/lab/index.htm

Laura Gough Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biology

I am interested in the forces that structure plant communities particularly nutrient availability and herbivory, how species diversity feeds back to affect ecosystem function, and the effects particular traits may have on species responses to perturbations in a community context. My research spans several different ecosystem types with an emphasis on arctic tundra.

Reich         http://www.forestry.umn.edu/People/Reich/index.htm

 Peter B. Reich

Regents Professor
Distinguished McKnight University Professor
F.B. Hubachek, Sr. Chair in Forest Ecology and Tree Physiology
Resident Fellow, Institute on the Environment (IonE)

Ph.D. 1983, Cornell University
Ecology, tree physiology, ecophysiology, and silviculture

Office: 220f  Green Hall 
Phone: (612) 624-4270
Fax: (612) 625-5212
E-mail: preich@umn.edu

Areas of Interest

My current research focuses on the impacts of global environmental change on terrestrial ecosystems. This includes effects of climate change, elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide, other air pollutants, land use/management, fire and biotic invasion on health, biodiversity, and sustainability of forest and grassland ecosystems both in Minnesota and globally. This work simultaneously attempts to bridge the fields of physiological, community, ecosystem, landscape, and global ecology. We tend to focus on the broad ecotone of central North America, where boreal forests, northern hardwood forests, oak woodlands/savannas, and grasslands converge and mix. However, we are involved in projects that address similar themes and issues in many other biomes and geographic locations, including work in several other continents (Australia, Europe, South America).
This work includes links and joint affiliation/cooperation with other groups such as theInstitute on the Environment (University of Minnesota), the Cedar Creek Long-Term Ecological Research Project (University of Minnesota—National Science Foundation), the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment (University of Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia),the TRY Global Database Initiative (coordinated by the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany) and several others (http://forestecology.cfans.umn.edu/reich.html).

Chapin        http://terrychapin.org/ 

F. Stuart Chapin, III (Terry) is an ecosystem ecologist whose research addresses the sustainability of ecosystems and human communities in a rapidly changing planet. This work emphasizes the impacts of climate change on Alaskan ecology, subsistence resources, and indigenous communities, as a basis for developing climate-change adaptation plans.

Cleland       http://labs.biology.ucsd.edu/cleland/cleland/People.html

Elsa E. Cleland, Assistant Professor

I study the responses of plant communities and ecosystems to global environmental changes, such as nitrogen deposition, elevated CO2, shifting precipitation, and invasive species.  I am also interested in strategies for restoration of native plant communities in the context of present and future environmental changes.  

Knapp       http://rydberg.biology.colostate.edu/knapplab/index.html

Research in our lab focuses on plants, with a goal of understanding ecological patterns and processes from the leaf to the ecosystem level. Our research is conducted primarily in the field utilizing the comparative approach and experimental manipulations of key ecological drivers. Key areas of interest include: plant physiological ecology, ecosystems ecology, climate change, long-term ecological research, invasive plant species, restoration ecology, fire and herbivory effects on communities and ecosytems.

Grime         http://www.shef.ac.uk/aps/staff-and-students/acadstaff/pgrime

Emeritus Professor J Philip Grime

Tel: +44 (0)114 222 4766

email : j.p.grime@sheffield.ac.uk

Career

BSc (1956) PhD (1960) University of Sheffield
Member of Nature Conservancy Grassland Research Unit, Department of Botany, University of Sheffield (1961-63)
Ecologist, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Connecticut, USA (1963-64)
Deputy Director, Unit of Comparative Plant Ecology (UCPE), University of Sheffield (1964-89)
Director, The Buxton Climate Change Impacts Laboratory, University of Sheffield (1989-present).

Main Research Interests

Role of plant, animal and microbial functional types in community and ecosystem processes. Investigations of the impacts of changes in land use and climate on vegetation. Use of microcosm techniques and field manipulations to study the effects of dominant plant species on the trophic structure of herbaceous vegetation. Experimental manipulations of the consequences of genetic impoverishment on vegetation properties.

Lamb         http://homepage.usask.ca/~egl388/index.html

Saskatchewan Plant Community Ecology Lab

Fundamental and applied research into the mechanisms that structure plant communities. We study the mechanisms structuring plant community diversity, plant - soil interactions, plant competition, rangeland ecology and management, and statistical ecology.

All aspects of plant community ecology.

I am particularly interested in the role of competition in structuring plant community diversity and plant - soil interactions

Grace       https://profile.usgs.gov/gracej

James Grace  RESEARCH ECOLOGIST

Short Biography

Jim Grace obtained his B.S. in Biology from Presbyterian College in South Carolina, his M.S. from Clemson University, and his Ph.D. from Michigan State University. After graduate school, he held faculty positions at the University of Arkansas and Louisiana State University, where he reached the level of Full Professor. He currently holds an Adjunct Professorship in Biology at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette. In 2000, he received the millennium Meritorious Research Award from the Society of Wetland Scientists and in 2003 received the National Science Excellence Award from the U.S. Geological Survey. He has published over 160 papers and reports, including 3 books, one on competitive interactions, one on community analysis, and one on structural equation modeling. Latest news releases related to our work can be found at:

Huxman     http://eebweb.arizona.edu/faculty/huxman/index/Home.html

Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Director, Center for Environmental Biology

Director, Steele-Burnand Anza Borrego Desert Research Center

I am a physiological ecologist who focuses on understanding the evolution of functional traits in plants and the impacts of climate change on ecosystems.  I investigate physiological or plant-mediated processes from the spatial scale of cells to that of whole landscapes. A recent focus of my scholarship is understanding the dynamics of climate-ecosystem interactions and their influence in coupling of carbon and water cycles in arid landscapes, which encompass ~ 40% of Earth’s surface.  I am interested in the plant processes underlying these coupling and how these patterns and mechanism are related to processes in diverse biomes from around the globe.  I am excited to be involved in the newest UC Reserve site - the Steele-Burnand Anza Borrego Desert Research Center.

I lead the Center for Environmental Biology at the University of California, Irvine.  This is an exciting program that focuses on landscape scale research that serves issues of conservation and ecosystem management.  We work with the Nature Reserve of Orange County and a number of stakeholders (city, county, state, federal and non-profit groups) to bring academic research to environmental challenges.  We partner with groups to focus on science literacy and public engagement using a number of programs.

From 2007 to 2012 I led the UA Biosphere 2, an interdisciplinary department in the UA College of Science.  B2 serves as a center focused on research, outreach, teaching and life-long learning about Earth, its living systems and its place in the Universe.  The program excels at understanding complex environmental systems using highly controlled experimental facilities, computational modeling, and observational arrays deployed in natural landscapes.  This unit houses research faculty and professional staff focused on understanding how water works in the Earth system, synthesizing and incubating important topics in environmental science, and engaging a diverse stakeholder community in science, including decision makers, practitioners, K-12 educators and the public.

 
Fay            http://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/people/people.htm?personid=38279

Education

Kansas State University, Bachelor of Science, Biology, 1982

Northern Arizona University, Master of Science, Biology, 1987

Kansas State University, Doctorate, Biology, 1992

Research Interests   (Vita)

Ecosystem ecology of grasslands- soil and plant carbon and water relations, primary productivity, and their responses to rising greenhouse gas (CO2) concentrations and temperature and precipitation variability.

 Current Research Projects

Lysimeter CO2 Gradient Experiment (realtime display)

Nutnet

Grassland Plant Diversity Impacts on Soil CO2 Efflux

Rainfall Manipulation Plot (RaMP) Experiment (Konza Prairie Biological Station)

Rainfall Mesocosm Experiment (Konza Prairie Biological Station)

 Gross        http://www.kbs.msu.edu/people/faculty/gross

Hector       http://www.ieu.uzh.ch/staff/professors/ahector.html#5

Andy Hector

Professor of Ecology
(former member of IEU)
current:
Department of Plant Sciences
University of Oxford
South Parks Road
Oxford   OX1 3RB

Research interests

Community ecology; Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and ecological services; Statistical analysis (courses in linear, general, generalised and mixed-effects models)

 
JRGCE        http://globalecology.stanford.edu/DGE/Dukes/JRGCE/gce.html

The Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment

Beginning in 1992 and continuing today, a number of studies of the potential effects of global climate change have been conducted at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. These studies have been led by scientists at Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Global Ecology (located on the Stanford campus) with scientists from other institutions participating.

Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, which is owned and operated by Stanford University, is located on the east side of the Outer Coast Range of central California near the Stanford campus. Jasper Ridge has a Mediterranean climate with cool, wet winters and very dry summers.

The Jasper Ridge global change experiments have been designed to exploit grasslands as models for understanding how ecosystems may respond to climate change. Although many experiments have been conducted to study the effects of climate change on plant species, relatively few have been done on an ecosystem scale. Jasper Ridge grassland ecosystems where chosen as model systems for several reasons. First, they are dominated by annual grasses, which have a number of advantages for these types of experiments. Annual grasses are relatively free of historical effects of climate change; their complete life cycle can be studied each year; they are small in stature making experimental design easier; and multiyear studies can potentially reveal changes in species composition over time. Second, these grasslands are rich in both species and plant functional types. Although much of the grassland at Jasper Ridge is dominated by annual grasses, other common functional types include early and late blooming annual forbs (non-grass, herbaceous plants), perennial grasses, and perennial forbs. Third, gophers frequently disturb Jasper Ridge soils, so experiments that cause moderate soil disturbance are not unrealistic in these ecosystems.

Two core experimental facilities have been central to Jasper Ridge global climate change experiments. The first were the 1992-1997 Open-top Chamber Facilities, which have been almost entirely dismantled. The second is the Jasper Ridge Global Change Experiment facility, which began baseline measurements in 1997-98 and treatment manipulations in the 1998-99 growing season, and continues operating today. Both of these facilities enabled their own set of core studies as well as a number of related studies. To learn more about these studies, please explore the links shown on the left side of this page.

Buell-Small Succession Study    

http://www.caryinstitute.org/science-program/research-projects/buell-small-succession-study

Dr. Steward T.A. Pickett

Plant Ecologist

Ph.D., 1977, University of Illinois, Urbana

Expertise: urban ecology, landscape design, succession

Phone Number:

(845) 677-7600 x130

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(845) 677-5976

Email Dr. Steward T.A. Pickett

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2801 Sharon Turnpike; P.O. Box AB

The Buell-Small Succession Study is a long term ecological study designed to document old field succession. The study was founded in 1958 by Murray Buell, Helen Buell, and John Small. It includes ten fields that were actively farmed until released for the study. Each year a team of researchers returns to the fields and measures the percent cover of plant species in permanently marked plots.

By looking at how the species in the plots and their cover change over time, researchers can learn how succession progresses in the fields. Understanding the succession of the BSS fields can help researchers determine how other abandoned fields in similar systems will change over time. Because the BSS data set is extensive in space and continuous in time, it can be used to answer a wide range of additional questions.

Park Grass   http://www.era.rothamsted.ac.uk/index.php?area=home&page=index&dataset=1

Park Grass Experiment

The Park Grass experiment is the oldest experiment on permanent grassland in the world. Started by Lawes and Gilbert in 1856, its original purpose was to investigate ways of improving the yield of hay by the application of inorganic fertilisers and organic manure. Within 2-3 years it became clear that these treatments were having a dramatic effect on the species composition of what had been a uniform sward. The continuing effects of the original treatments on species diversity and on soil function, together with later tests of liming and interactions with atmospheric inputs and climate change, has meant that Park Grass has become increasingly important to ecologists, environmentalists and soil scientists.

附：e-RA: the electronic Rothamsted Archive

The electronic Rothamsted Archive (e-RA) provides a permanent managed database for secure storage of data from Rothamsted's Classical Experiments, the oldest, continuous agronomic experiments in the world. Together with the accompanying meteorological records, associated documentation and sample archive, it is a unique historical record of experiments that have been measured continuously for nearly 170 years. Users have easy access to experimental data and specialist background information on the effects of agricultural practices on soils, crops and associated ecosystems.

Currently, e-RA holds records of yields and other data for the Broadbalk winter wheat, Park Grass permanent grassland, Hoosfield spring barley and Alternate Wheat and Fallow Classical experiments. Meteorological data from Rothamsted, Brooms Barn and Woburn are also available. The links, left, will lead you to background information on the experiments or the data. All Datasets shows a full list of current datasets which are continually being added to.

The data in e-RA are available for scientific research, but remain the property of Rothamsted Research and the Lawes Agricultural Trust. Most of the data held within e-RA are password-protected and access is subject to our Data Access Policy. The Open Access data are available to all, no password is required, although users are required to acknowledge Rothamsted Research as the data source.

The importance of e-RA, the Long-Term Experiments and Sample Archive have been recognised by the BBSRC in awarding them National Capability (NC) status. NC is defined as being a strategic component of the international research base. NCs are by definition externally facing and engaged with the user community.

Cedar Creek (Tilman)     http://www.cbs.umn.edu/explore/cedarcreek

 Cedar Creek is now accepting applications for Plant Community Ecology Internships and Prescribed Burn Technicians.  See our Employment page for more information.

Linking Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Current Uncertainties and the Necessary Next Steps

Why long-term research is necessary for truly understanding environmental phenomena.  PNAS, Global Change Biology, Ecology Letters, Nature

Regents Professor G. David Tilman 

 tilman@umn.edu 

附：明尼苏打大学（umn.edu）的生态学研究者们

http://www.cbs.umn.edu/explore/departments/eeb/faculty-research/directory

Ecology, Evolution and Behavior

• Barker, F. Keith

• Bee, Mark

• Borer, Elizabeth

• Cavender-Bares, Jeannine

• Cotner, Jim

• Finlay, Jacques

• Hobbie, Sarah

• Jansa, Sharon

• Lanyon, Scott

• Lehman, Clarence

  • Centinel

  • Climate Tracker

  • Modelling

  • Wildlife

  Muller-Landau, Helene
  

• Powers, Jennifer

• Shaw, Ruth

• Snell-Rood, Emilie

• Stephens, David

• Sterner, Robert

• Tiffin, Peter

• Ward, John

• Zuk, Marlene

美国犹他大学的生态系统研究组

http://www.biology.utah.edu/research/interest.php?int=22

Ecosystem Science

Ecosystem science is focused on how organisms in their natural habitats are affected by biotic and abiotic factors, and how these organisms in turn modify their environment. This interdisciplinary field merges the life sciences and the physical sciences to address contemporary environmental science issues.

加州大学圣芭拉拉分校美国国立生态分析与集成中心

http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/

NCEAS: Advancing Ecology to Improve Lives and the Environment

Established in 1995, the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) is a research center of the University of California, Santa Barbara and was the first national synthesis center of its kind.

There is broad acknowledgement that NCEAS has significantly altered the way ecological science is conducted, towards being more collaborative, open, integrative, relevant, and technologically informed. Different from the scientific tradition of solitary lab or fieldwork, NCEAS fosters collaborative synthesis research – assembling interdisciplinary teams to distill existing data, ideas, theories, or methods drawn from many sources, across multiple fields of inquiry, to accelerate the generation of new scientific knowledge at a broad scale.

NCEAS has helped create a large community of scientists from multiple disciplines, eager to collaborate to answer some of the toughest environmental questions facing society. Through collective Working Group projects scientists share data and methods, synthesize vast amounts of information, and discover new insights and understanding to improve lives and the environment. Some examples of the Center’s research include:

Environmental Science Benefiting Human Livelihoods

Ecological Effects of Climate Change

Ecology of Infectious Disease

Marine Ecology and Conservation

Economics and Ecology

瑞典斯德歌尔摩大学生态学研究者

http://www.su.se/emb/english/research/research-areas/ecology

Research areas with contact people

Population ecology

Effects of environment and climate on plant population dynamics (Johan Ehrlén)

Ecological and evolutionary consequences of plant-animal interactions (Johan Ehrlén)

Evolutionary ecology: recruitment strategies in plants with extremely small seeds (Ove Eriksson)

Dispersal biology in mosses (Kristoffer Hylander)

Host-parasitoid systems: immunology, search behaviour, ecology and evolution (Peter Hambäck)

Insect responses to spatial heterogeneity (Peter Hambäck)

Community ecology

Historical landscape ecology (Ove Eriksson)

Coastal ecology, how marine processes affect the terrestrial coastal ecosystem (Peter Hambäck)

Biodiversity and ecosystem services in tropical mosaic landscapes (Kristoffer Hylander)

Ecosystem ecology

Function and dynamics in the Baltic sea ecosystem; fish, their prey and predators, and environmental effects from eutrophication and fishing (Sture Hansson)