Community Dynamics Toolbox

Building on available long-term observations and advanced information technology we will develop a toolbox for automating the process of analyzing community change. Long-term data sets will be used to demonstrate data and system accessibility and functionality, and through implementation of new metrics we will gain insights into what drives change in ecological communities on a continental scale. Data will be accessed via the DataONE portal and the LTER Network Information System using the Ecological Metadata Language, and analyzed with R routines in Kepler workflows.
This project is supported by the National Science Foundation grant NSF-ABI #1262458