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@caryinstitute.org

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

From: Ellison, Aaron [mailto:aellison@fas.harvard.edu]
Sent: Thursday, February 8, 2018 1:17 PM
To: mark.schulze@oregonstate.edu; mpnelson@oregonstate.edu; jhollingsworth@alaska.edu; rwruess@alaska.edu; gaisere@fiu.edu; rjackson@warnell.uga.edu; tgragson@uga.edu; Foster, David R.; LovettG@ecostudies.org; groffmanp@caryinstitute.org; jesskz@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@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@fas.harvard.edu

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

@AMaxEll17

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