Working Group One Pagers
Current working groups each have a living one pager webpage that evolves as their science evolves, offering a snapshot of who they are, what they're building, and why it matters.
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Nature Health Index
To better support conservation policy, this group is developing a tool that will integrate diverse ecological data to provide an overall “score” for the health of ecosystems such as forests, grasslands, mangroves, rivers, and coral reefs.
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GO FISH
The GO FISH (Guidelines On core data for climate-resilient inland FISHeries) working group seeks to identify global data standards for sustainable inland fisheries.
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Vanishing Vitamins
By synthesizing data on the drivers of thiamin deficiency complex (TDC), this group seeks to better understand TDC and to create comprehensive tools for researchers, students, and resource managers.
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Baited Switch
By utilizing information from two global studies of shark and ray trade (the Global Shark Meat Project) and conservation data (the Global Shark Trends Project), this project examines how trade dynamics drive fisheries and population status.
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Fuel Breaks with Benefits
A group of wildfire experts, scientists, and land managers have created scenarios and planning tools to help northern communities develop wildfire fuel reduction treatments that enhance the sustainability and benefits of fuel breaks for people and ecosystems.
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How Do We Steward and Restore Kelp Forests?
To better support kelp forest restoration and stewardship worldwide, this diverse group of experts is co-developing an inclusive framework to support kelp and the communities that rely on it.
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Plant Prioritizer
This project has developed a scalable framework for data-driven pollinator habitat restoration, and implemented it in California to deliver an open-source and user-friendly tool to help gardeners and restoration practitioners select native plants that maximize benefits to local insects.
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Prescribed Fire in the Western US
By evaluating the impact of prescribed burns in the Western US, this project will identify its co-benefits and tradeoffs while also providing implementation guidance for the western wildfire management community.
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Using AI for Better Gulf Fisheries Management
This group is investigating how AI can support fisheries managers to make better use of qualitative data–non-numerical, descriptive information that captures people’s thoughts, emotions, and experiences.
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Ecological Impacts of Marine Artificial Structures on Fish Communities in the Gulf
By exploring the ecological effects of marine artificial structures on Gulf reef fish, this group seeks to advise decisions on installation, management, and decommissioning of these structures.
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Impact of Estuarine Habitat Restoration on Fisheries of the Gulf
This group is reviewing large-scale ecological restoration efforts in Gulf estuaries and the impact the have had on the ecological and social dimensions within fish populations and fisheries in Florida.
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Shifts in Distribution and Movement of Coastal Migratory Pelagic Fishes in the Gulf
To address the needs of Coastal Migratory Pelagic Fish managers, this group is evaluating how changing environmental variables effect migratory patterns of these species.
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Impacts of Offshore Wind Development on Fish and Fisheries in the Gulf
This project evaluates the potential impacts on fish and fisheries from offshore energy development and seeks to create products that support sustainable development and implementation of offshore energy.
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How Do Severe Weather Events Impact Fisheries on the Texas Coast?
In order to better understand the long-term impacts of severe weather events on full ecosystems, this group is looking at a wide range of impacts—from water quality to fish populations—in the Mission-Aransas Estuary and Galveston Bay, Texas.
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Effects of Management and Climate on Production Resilience
This project examines how land management shapes ecosystem resilience to climate variability. The group is advancing understanding of how ecosystems respond to environmental change and what that means for sustainable land use.
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Life After Death: Material Legacies of Foundation Species
This project investigates how the remains of dead foundation species influence the population dynamics of living counterparts across diverse ecosystems worldwide.
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Above-Belowground Synchrony and Coupling
This project is exploring plant and microbial datasets and how the dynamics between plants and microbes align or diverge overtime.
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Consumer Absence Generates Ecological Dissimilarity (CAGED)
CAGED explores data from consumer-exclusion experiments that are common in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems to evaluate how consumer loss influences community variability across space.
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Consumer Functional Diversity
This working group brings together researchers across sub-disciplines, career stages, and LTER sites to understand how consumer biodiversity changes over time and across aquatic ecosystems.
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