Bulletin
of the Ecological Society of America, 1707 H Street, NW, Washington DC 20006
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Section
Editor, Technological Tools
D. W. Inouye
Department of Zoology, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742
E-mail: di5@umail.umd.edu
Section Editor, Ecology 101
H. Ornes
College of Sciences, SB310A, Southern Utah University
Cedar City, UT 84720 E-mail: ornes@ssu.edu
Section Editor, Public Affairs Perspective
N. Lymn
Director for Public Affairs, ESA Headquarters,
1707 H Street, NW, Suite 400,
Washington, DC 20036 E-mail: nadine@esa.org |
The Ecological Society
of America
GOVERNING BOARD
FOR 2003—2004
President:
William H. Schlesinger, School
of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
President-Elect:
Jerry M. Melillo, Marine
Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543
Past-President:
Ann M. Bartuska, The
Nature Conservancy, International Headquarters, Suite 100, 4245 North Fairfax
Drive, Arlington, VA 22203-1606
Vice President for Science:
James S. Clark,
Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
Vice President for Finance:
Norman L. Christensen, School
of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
Vice President for Public Affairs:
Alison G. Power,
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca,
NY 14853-2701
Vice
President for Education and Human Resources:
Carol A. Brewer,
Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812-0001
Secretary:
Jill S. Baron,
U.S. Geological Survey, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State
University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1499
Member-at-Large:
Edward A. Johnson, Department
of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Canada
Member-at-Large:
Osvaldo E. Sala,
Catedra de Ecologia, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires 1417 Argentina
Member-at-Large:
Margaret A. Palmer, Department
of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-0001
AIMS
The Ecological
Society
of
America
was founded in 1915 for the purpose of unifying the sciences of ecology,
stimulating research in all aspects of the discipline, encouraging communication
among ecologists, and promoting the responsible application of ecological
data and principles to the solution of environmental problems. Ecology is
the scientific discipline that is concerned with the relationships between
organisms and their past, present, and future environments. These relationships
include physiological responses of individuals, structure and dynamics of
populations, interactions among species, organization of biological communities,
and processing of energy and matter in ecosystems.
MEMBERSHIP
Membership is open to persons
who are interested in the advancement of ecology or its applications, and
to those who are engaged in any aspect of the study of organisms in relation
to environment. The classes of membership and their annual dues for 2004
are as follows:
| Regular member: |
Income level |
Dues |
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<$40,000 |
$50.00 |
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$40,000—60,000 |
$75.00 |
| |
>$60,000 |
$95.00 |
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Student member:
|
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$25.00 |
| Emeritus member: |
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Free |
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Life
member:
|
Contact Member and Subscriber Services
(see below) |
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Subscriptions to the journals are not included in the dues.
Special membership rates are available for individuals in developing countries.
Contact Member and Subscriber services (address below) for details.
PUBLICATIONS
The Society publishes a
bulletin, three print journals, and an electronic data archive. The Bulletin
of the Ecological Society of America,
issued quarterly, contains announcements of meetings of the Society and
related organizations, programs, awards, articles, and items of current
interest to members. The journal Ecology,
issued monthly, publishes essays
and articles that report and interpret the results of original scientific
research in basic and applied ecology. Ecological
Monographs is a quarterly journal
for longer ecological research articles. Ecological
Applications, published six times
per year, contains ecological research and discussion papers that have specific
relevance to environmental management and policy. Ecological
Archives is published on the Internet
at ‹http://www.esapubs.org/archive/›
and contains supplemental material to ESA journal articles and data papers.
No responsibility for the views expressed by the authors in ESA publications
is assumed by the editors or the publisher, the Ecological Society of America.
Subscriptions for 2004 are available to ESA members as follows:
Regular
Student
Ecology
$65.00 $50.00
Bulletin of the
Ecological Society of America
Free to members
Ecological Monographs
$30.00 $25.00
Ecological Applications
$50.00 $40.00
Ecological Archives Free
Application blanks for membership may
be obtained from the Ecological Society of America, Member and Subscriber
Services, 1707 H Street, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20006, to which all
correspondence concerning membership should be addressed. Checks accompanying
membership applications should be made payable to the Ecological Society of
America.
For additional information on the Society
and its publications, visit ESA's home page on the World Wide Web <http://esa.org>.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
NOTICES
REQUEST
FOR STUDENT AWARD JUDGES
Murray
F. Buell Award
E. Lucy Braun Award
Judges
are needed to evaluate candidates for the Murray F. Buell Award for the outstanding
oral presentation by a student and the E. Lucy Braun Award for the outstanding
poster presentation by a student at the Annual ESA Meeting at Portland, Oregon
in 2004. We need to provide each candidate with at least four judges competent
in the specific subject of the presentation. Each judge is asked to evaluate
3–5 papers and/or posters. Current graduate students are not eligible
to judge. This is a great way to become involved in an important ESA activity.
We desperately need your help!
Please
complete and send this form by mail, fax, or e-mail to the Chair of the Student
Awards Subcommittee: Christopher F. Sacchi, Department of Biology, Kutztown
University, Kutztown, PA 19530 USA. Call (610) 683-4314; FAX: (610) 683-4854
or e-mail: sacchi@kutztown.edu
If
you have judged in the past several years, this information is on file. If
you do not have to update your information, simply send me an e-mail message,
“Yes, I can judge this year.”
Name
______________________________________________________________________________________________
Current mailing address _______________________________________________________________________________
June/July mailing address _____________________________________________________________________________
Current telephone Summer telephone ____________________________________________________________________
E-mail Fax __________________________________________________________________________________________
Year M.S. received Year Ph.D received ______________________________________
Areas
of expertise (check all that apply):
— Discipline Research approach (please rank) Organisms
— Botany Population ecology Vertebrates
— Zoology Community ecology Types:
— Microbiology Ecosystem ecology Invertebrates
— Applied ecology Types:
— Habitat Physiological ecology Plants
— Soil Behavioral ecology Types:
— Terrestrial Paleoecology Fungi
— Freshwater Theoretical ecology Microbes
— Marine Evolutionary ecology Types:
Provide
a few key words or phrases that describe your interests and expertise: _________________________
________________________________________________________________________
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STUDENT AWARDS FOR
EXCELLENCE IN ECOLOGY
Murray F. Buell Award and E. Lucy Braun Award
Murray
F. Buell had a long and distinguished record of service and accomplishment
in the Ecological Society of America. Among other things, he ascribed great
importance to the participation of students in meetings and to excellence
in the presentation of papers. To honor his selfless dedication to the younger
generation of ecologists, the Murray F. Buell Award for Excellence in Ecology
is given to a student for the outstanding oral paper presented at the ESA
Annual Meeting.
E.
Lucy Braun, an eminent plant ecologist and one of the charter members of the
Society, studied and mapped the deciduous forest regions of eastern North
America and described them in her classic book, The Deciduous Forests of
Eastern North America. To honor her, the E. Lucy Braun Award for Excellence
in Ecology is given to a student for the outstanding poster presentation at
the ESA Annual Meeting.
A
candidate for these awards must be an undergraduate, a graduate student, or
a recent doctorate not more than 9 months past graduation at the time of the
meeting. The paper or poster must be presented as part of the program sponsored
by the Ecological Society of America, but the student need not be an ESA member.
To be eligible for these awards the student must be the sole or senior author
of the oral paper (Note: symposium talks are ineligible) or poster. Papers
and posters will be judged on the significance of ideas, creativity, quality
of methodology, validity of conclusions drawn from results, and clarity of
presentation. While all students are encouraged to participate, winning papers
and posters typically describe fully completed projects. The students selected
for these awards will be announced in the ESA Bulletin following the
Annual Meeting. A certificate and a check for $500 will be presented to each
recipient at the next ESA Annual Meeting.
If
you wish to be considered for either of these awards at the 2004 Annual Meeting,
you must send the following to the Chair of the Student Awards Subcommittee:
(1) the application form below, (2) a copy of your abstract, and (3) a 250-word
or less description of why/how the research presented will advance the field
of ecology. Because of the large number of applications for the Buell and
Braun awards in recent years, applicants may be prescreened prior to the meeting,
based on the quality of the abstract and this description of the significance
of their research. The application form, abstract, and research justification
must be sent by mail, fax, or email (e-mail is preferred; send e-mail to sacchi@kutztown.edu)
to the Chair of the Student Awards Subcommittee: Dr. Christopher F. Sacchi,
Department of Biology, Kutztown University of PA, Kutztown, PA 19530 USA.
If you have questions, write, call (610) 683-4314, fax (610) 683-4854, or
email: sacchi@kutztown.edu. You
will be provided with suggestions for enhancing a paper or poster. The deadline
for submission of form and abstract is 1 March 2004; applications sent after
1 March 2004 will not be considered. This submission is in addition to the
regular abstract submission. Buell/Braun participants who fail to notify the
B/B Chair by 1 May of withdrawal from the meeting will be ineligible, barring
exceptional circumstances, for consideration in the future. Electronic versions
of the Application Form are available on the ESA web site, or you can send
an e-mail to sacchi@kutztown.edu and request that an
electronic version be sent to you as an attachment.
Application
Form for Buell or Braun Award
Name __________________________________________________________________________________________
Current
Mailing Address____________________________________________________________________________
Current
Telephone ________________________________________________________________________________
Email
__________________________________________________________________________________________
College/University
Affiliation _______________________________________________________________________
Title
of Presentation ______________________________________________________________________________
Presentation:
Paper (Buell Award) ______ Poster (Braun Award) _______
At
the time of presentation I will be (check one):
______an undergraduate student ______a graduate student______a recent doctorate
not more than 9 months past graduation
I
will be the sole ____ /senior ____ author (check one) of the paper/poster.
Signed
(electronic signatures are OK)________________________________________________________________
Please
attach a copy of your abstract and 250word or less description of why/how
the research presented will advance the field of ecology.
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Multivariate
Analysis of Ecological Data using
CANOCO
This course will be held 21—30 July 2004
in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic. The course introduces modern approaches
to multivariate data analysis, with much time allocated to practical applications,
where participants work with their own data.
In-depth lectures and practices are provided
for the following topics:
—
Classical ordination methods (PCA, CA, DCA, PCO, NMDS)
— Constrained ordination methods (RA,
CCA) including partial analyses and permutation tests of multivariate
hypotheses
— Thorough explanation of how to interpret
the contents of ordination diagrams
In addition, we provide overview for classification
methods (cluster analysis, TWINSPAN), experimental design, and modern
regression methods (GLM, GAM, CART).
The course contents are based on the book written
by course lecturers and published by Cambridge University Press; Jan Leps
and Petr Smilauer (2003): Multivariate
Analysis Of Ecological Data Using CANOCO.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 0-521-89108-6.
A
New Governance Structure for the
Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study
As the research programs in the
U.S. National Science Foundation's long-term ecological research (LTER)
network (as well as other long-term research sites) age and mature, a series
of governance issues arise: Who will maintain the integrity of the long-term
experiments and data at the site? How will new scientists be brought into
the program? How will new leaders be developed? How will a flow of new ideas
and visions be maintained? As we enter the third decade of the LTER network,
these questions are becoming increasingly important.
As one of the longest running ecosystem research projects in the world,
the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study (HBES) has necessarily begun to address
these questions. The mission of the HBES is to carry out multidisciplinary
studies of the structure, function, and change of northern hardwood forest
ecosystems and associated aquatic ecosystems, as represented within the
Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBEF), in the White Mountains of New
Hampshire. Our goals are (1) to advance scientific understanding of forest
and aquatic ecosystems in northeastern North
America and provide a scientific baseline for management and policy decisions;
(2) to offer educational opportunities to students; and (3) to promote greater
public awareness of ecosystem science. Ecosystem research at HBEF was initiated
in 1963, and the site became a component of the LTER network in 1988. The
only formal governance structure for the HBES was a Scientific Advisory
Committee (SAC) that advised the USFS Project Leader, approved proposed
projects, and provided some long-term vision for the project. In 1993 the
Hubbard Brook Research Foundation (HBRF), a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable
organization, was founded to help assure the long-term integrity and health
of the HBES. One of the primary concerns of the HBRF was the development
of a stable governance structure for the HBES. This concern became acute
as the HBRF approached donors to develop an endowment to support the long-term
monitoring program. One of the first questions donors asked was about the
governance and leadership and what structures were in place to maintain
a vibrant research program over the long term. In response to these questions
and concerns, a group of senior HBES investigators (led by Herb Bormann,
Gene Likens, and Dick Holmes) developed a proposal for a new governance
structure, which has been adopted after much discussion among the group
of scientists working at Hubbard Brook (Fig. 1).
At the center of the new governance structure is the “Committee of
Scientists”(COS), which consists of the group of active principal
investigators conducting research in the Hubbard Brook valley. The initial
list for the COS was assembled by group consensus, and additions are made
by request. The membership list of the COS will be reviewed at 3-year
intervals. There are currently 37 members of the HBES COS.
The Scientific Coordinating Committee (SCC) provides leadership for the
COS, overseeing a series of committees, providing vision and scientific
leadership to the research program, fostering integration and synthesis
across diverse projects, and promoting interactions and communication
among HBES scientists. The “visioning” function of the SCC is
considered to be particularly critical, as governance activities for large
projects often tend to get bogged down in practical detail. The SCC has
10 members, 4 of which are elected by the COS. Other members include one
of the two Hubbard Brook LTER principal investigators (chosen among themselves),
a senior scientist (chosen from among a group of the five investigators
with the longest experience in the HBES), a scientist not associated with
the HBES (chosen and invited by the other SCC members), a representative
from the HBRF Board of Directors (a nonscientist), the USFS Project Leader
for the HBEF (ex-officio), and the Executive Director of the HBRF (ex-officio).
The Research Approval Committee (RAC) is advisory to the USFS Project
Leader, who bears ultimate responsibility for research activities at the
HBEF. This committee evaluates and approves proposed projects,
facilitates coordination, and prevents conflicts among different research
projects at the site. Anyone wishing to conduct research at HBEF must
submit a brief proposal to the RAC (proposals are accepted three times
per year). The Information Oversight Committee (IOC) is responsible for
the content of the HBES WWW site <www.hubbardbrook.org>,
data management, and maintenance of the HBES data, sample, and document
archives. The Program and Meetings Committee (PMC) organizes a series
of COS meetings (four per year) as well as the annual HBES cooperator's
meeting. The Education and Outreach Committee (EOC) facilitates links
between HBES research and learning groups ranging from K—12, to local
residents, to management and policy communities.
It is our hope that the new governance structure
will maintain the vitality of the HBES for decades to come. We hope
that the structure will maintain the integrity of the long-term data
and experiments, attract new people to the project, help us to develop
new ideas and experiments, and increase participation in project leadership.
Perhaps the greatest hope is that the new structure will allow us to
focus more on “the vision thing.”The SCC and PMC will establish
an agenda to foster regular discussion of issues such as “new experiments,”
“synthesis,” “gaps in coverage,” and “strategies
for education and outreach.” We hope that our experience with this
new structure will be useful to other long-term research sites both
within and outside the LTER network.
ments,
reproductive and foraging behaviors, evolutionary relationships, and
roles in regional ecosystems. The course combines lectures with field
and laboratory exercises designed to expose advanced students to the
remarkable diversity and importance of mammals in the Southern Appalachians.
Four
semester hours. James T. Costa (Western Carolina University).
of fleshy fungi. This course introduces students to the fleshy ascomycetes
and basidiomycetes that occur on the Highlands Plateau during peak mushroom
season. Emphasis will be placed on the analysis of macro- and micro-morphological
features to aid in the identification of taxa. The daily routine will
consist of a morning lecture on systematics, ecology, and phylogeny
of fleshy fungi followed by a field trip until early or midafternoon.
Collections will be examined and identified after returning from the
field, providing an opportunity to assemble an impressive collection
of fleshy fungi for classroom instruction or research.