[HubbardBrook] FW: Looking for contributions from LTER sites for a special issue of the journal Forests

Mon Feb 19 13:05:23 EST 2018

Dear Hubbard Brook colleagues:

I would like to call your attention to the request below for papers for a
special issue of the journal Forests on “Causes and Consequences of Species
Diversity in Forest Ecosystems”.  They are particularly interested in
contributions from LTER sites.

Is anyone interested in contributing a paper based on data from Hubbard
Brook?

Thanks!

Gary

*Gary M. Lovett, Ph.D.*

Senior Scientist

Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

Box AB, 2801 Sharon Turnpike

Millbrook, NY 12545 USA

*Phone*   845-677-7600 x132

*Email    *LovettG at caryinstitute.org <LovettG at ecostudies.org>

*Website  *
http://www.caryinstitute.org/science-program/our-scientists/dr-gary-m-lovett

*From:* Ellison, Aaron [mailto:aellison at fas.harvard.edu]
*Sent:* Thursday, February 8, 2018 1:17 PM
*To:* mark.schulze at oregonstate.edu; mpnelson at oregonstate.edu;
jhollingsworth at alaska.edu; rwruess at alaska.edu; gaisere at fiu.edu;
rjackson at warnell.uga.edu; tgragson at uga.edu; Foster, David R.;
LovettG at ecostudies.org; groffmanp at caryinstitute.org; jesskz at ites.upr.edu
*Cc:* Gilliam, Frank; Marty Downs
*Subject:* Looking for contributions from LTER sites for a special issue of
the journal Forests

Dear friends at forested LTER sites,

Frank Gilliam and I are guest-editing a special issue of the journal
open-access journal *Forests* (ISSN 1999-4907, IF 1.951) on the topic of
“Causes and Consequences of Species Diversity in Forest Ecosystems.” We
would very much like to include contributions from LTER sites, either
individually or cross-site comparisons and syntheses, in this issue. We are
writing today to bring this special issue to your attention and to ask you
to circulate this call for papers to researchers (grad students, post-docs,
senior researchers, etc.) at AND, BNZ, CWT, FCE, HFR, HBR, and LUQ.

In brief, the scope of this special issue is to address the causes and
consequences of species diversity in forested ecosystems; and how species
diversity in forests is being affected by rapid environmental and climatic
change, movement of invertebrate and vertebrate herbivores into new
biogeographic regions, and expanding human populations and associated
shifts in land-use patterns. We are interested in papers that explore these
broad topics for assemblages of plants (forest trees, shrubs, understory
herbs), animals (invertebrates and vertebrates), and microbes at spatial
scales ranging from small plots to large forest-dynamics plots, at temporal
scales ranging from seasons to centuries, in both temperate and tropical
regions, and across rural-to-urban gradients in land use.

*The deadline for submission of manuscripts for consideration for inclusion
in this special issue is 30 November 2018*, but of course we would be
delighted to receive a submission earlier than that deadline. Submitted
papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also
encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the
Editorial Office in advance (forests at mdpi.com).

For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions
for authors at the journal website (
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/instructions).

Please note that *Forests* is a fully open-access journal. Recent studies
have shown that open access (unlimited and free access by readers) papers
have higher citation rates and are picked up more frequently by news
organizations and social media feeds. Open access is supported by the
authors and their institutions. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for
accepted papers at *Forests* is CHF (Swiss Francs) 1400. Please note that
you may be entitled to a discount on this APC if you have previously
received a discount code from the journal, or if your institute is
participating in the MDPI Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP; for more
information see: http://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap). Many institutions also
provide financial support for APCs to investigators without grant support.

Further additional information on this special issue and *Forests*, please
see:
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/special_issues/causes_consequences_diversity.

Finally, I know that we all get multiple invitations like this on a regular
basis, and that it's difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. I have
published with MDPI journals before, and have found the peer-review process
to be rigorous and the subsequent production process to be excellent. I
wouldn't have signed on as a guest-editor for this special issue otherwise.

Thank you for circulating this among researchers at your LTER sites. Please
feel free to contact either Frank or I with any questions you might have
about contributing a paper to this special issue.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Aaron Ellison & Frank Gilliam, Guest Editors

Aaron M. Ellison, *Senior Research Fellow in Ecology*

Harvard University, Harvard Forest

324 North Main Street

Petersham, MA 01366 USA

aellison at fas.harvard.edu

http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/aaron-ellison

*@AMaxEll17*

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