Do different research strategies yield consistent results?
Organizers: Scott Cooper (SBC), Robin Ross (PAL), and Joel Trexler (FCE) Abstract: Some of the largest impacts of human activities on ecosystems are mediated through alterations in the composition and patterns of abundance of species in biological communities. Although populations are directly affected by both natural and anthropogenic perturbations, we can seldom predict the implications of population-level effects on ecosystem processes. Thus, a key question in ecological research concerns extrapolating from the direct and indirect of effects of perturbations on populations to inter-species interactions and, ultimately, their effects on ecosystem processes. This workshop will include research groups that have used multiple strategies to address the effects of perturbations on populations, communities, and ecosystems. Common research strategies include time series analysis and the analysis of natural perturbations, extensive surveys, experimental manipulations of species composition a
