12. Listening for Coastal Futures

2020 ◽  
pp. 141-152
Author(s):  
Willis Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Coastal Ecosystems ◽  
Ecological Research ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Long Term Ecological Research

This chapter attends to the role of listening in attuning humans to the natural world, specifically in light of a project involving Long-Term Ecological Research oriented around conserving coastal ecosystems. The Conservatory Project integrates perspectives on environmental change from sciences, humanities, and the arts, designing eco-acoustic listening exercises that afford participants an aural sense of their embodiment and embeddedness in a dynamic environment.

scholarly journals Host-parasitoid associations in marine planktonic time series: Can metabarcoding help reveal them?

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. e0244817
Author(s):  
Laura Käse ◽  
Katja Metfies ◽  
Stefan Neuhaus ◽  
Maarten Boersma ◽  
Karen Helen Wiltshire ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Food Web ◽  
Individual Species ◽  
Research Station ◽  
Ecological Research ◽  
Operational Taxonomic Units ◽  
Long Term Ecological Research ◽  
High Dynamics

In this study, we created a dataset of a continuous three-year 18S metabarcoding survey to identify eukaryotic parasitoids, and potential connections to hosts at the Long-Term Ecological Research station Helgoland Roads. The importance of parasites and parasitoids for food web dynamics has previously been recognized mostly in terrestrial and freshwater systems, while marine planktonic parasitoids have been understudied in comparison to those. Therefore, the occurrence and role of parasites and parasitoids remains mostly unconsidered in the marine environment. We observed high abundances and diversity of parasitoid operational taxonomic units in our dataset all year round. While some parasitoid groups were present throughout the year and merely fluctuated in abundances, we also detected a succession of parasitoid groups with peaks of individual species only during certain seasons. Using co-occurrence and patterns of seasonal occurrence, we were able to identify known host-parasitoid dynamics, however identification of new potential host-parasitoid interactions was not possible due to their high dynamics and variability in the dataset.

Biodiversity and Environmental Change

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Terrestrial Ecosystem ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Ecological Research ◽  
Ecological Data ◽  
Ecosystem Research ◽  
Australian Continent ◽  
Long Term Ecological Research

This data-rich book demonstrates the value of existing national long-term ecological research in Australia for monitoring environmental change and biodiversity. Long-term ecological data are critical for informing trends in biodiversity and environmental change. The Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) is a major initiative of the Australian Government and one of its key areas of investment is to provide funding for a network of long-term ecological research plots around Australia (LTERN). LTERN researchers and other authors in this book have maintained monitoring sites, often for one or more decades, in an array of different ecosystems across the Australian continent – ranging from tropical rainforests, wet eucalypt forests and alpine regions through to rangelands and deserts. This book highlights some of the temporal changes in the environment that have occurred in the various systems in which dedicated field-based ecologists have worked. Many important trends and changes are documented and they often provide new insights that were previously poorly understood or unknown. These data are precisely the kinds of data so desperately needed to better quantify the temporal trajectories in the environment in Australia. By presenting trend patterns (and often also the associated data) the authors aim to catalyse governments and other organisations to better recognise the importance of long-term data collection and monitoring as a fundamental part of ecologically-effective and cost-effective management of the environment and biodiversity.

scholarly journals The Roles of Large Top Predators in Coastal Ecosystems: New Insights from Long Term Ecological Research

Oceanography ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 156-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Rosenblatt ◽  
Michael Heithaus ◽  
Martha Mather ◽  
Philip Matich ◽  
James Nifong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Ecosystems ◽  
Ecological Research ◽  
Top Predators ◽  
Long Term Ecological Research

The Role of Statistics for Long-Term Ecological Research

2010 ◽  
pp. 107-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albrecht Gnauck ◽  
Bai-Lian Larry Li ◽  
Jean Duclos Alegue Feugo ◽  
Bernhard Luther
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Research ◽  
Long Term Ecological Research

scholarly journals Connectivity: insights from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network

Ecosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Iwaniec ◽  
Michael Gooseff ◽  
Katharine N. Suding ◽  
David Samuel Johnson ◽  
Daniel C. Reed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Network ◽  
Ecological Research ◽  
Long Term Ecological Research ◽  
The U.S
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