ltermetacommunities

LTER Metacommunity Synthesis Working Group

The purpose of this site is to promote collaboration within the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) working group on Metacommunities. This page will serve as a repository for code and results for ongoing analyses of LTER metacommunity data sets.

Background

This working group initially met at the LTER All Scientists Meeting (ASM 2015), which took place from 30 August through 2 September 2015. We are currently supported (2016-2018, link) by the LTER National Communications Office (NCO).

Google Drive Links

• Parent directory (LTER Metacommunities)
• Workshop 1 NCO collaborative documents (link)
• Workshop 2 NCO collaborative documents (link)
• LTER-DATA (link)
• DATA STANDARDS document (link)
• QA/QC Data Checks DRAFT document (link)

Useful links to background and related projects

• We are a working group supported by the LTER NCO (view proposal here)
• ESA 2016 workshop
• See the working group description at the ASM 2015 website
• Final report from 2015 ASM
• Also see the working group project page for more information and project news.
• A metacommunity simulation package for R (MCSim)
• A tutorial on how to use MCSim
• Application of metacommunity simulations at the McMurdo Dry Valleys LTER

Working group organizers:

Eric R. Sokol (MCM, NWT)

Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR)
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Email: eric.r.sokol@colorado.edu or sokole@gmail.com

Christopher M. Swan (BES)

Dept. of Geography & Environmental Systems
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, MD
Email: cmswan@umbc.edu