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2019 LTER Science Council May 14-16, 20192019 LTER Science Council May 14-16, 2019

HJ Andrews Experimental Forest LTER

Extra Extra!, Burning Site News: Late February 2019 disturbance event

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Snowdown !!!!

2019 LTER Science Council May 14-16, 20192019 LTER Science Council May 14-16, 2019

HJ Andrews Experimental Forest LTER

Burning Site News: Late February 2019 disturbance event

Topic/Example: The Ecology of Surprise

2019 LTER Science Council May 14-16, 2019

2 Types of Surprise

Type 1. Surprises or amazement about how our system works.

Type 2. We thought something was X and it turned out it was Y, that theory suggests one thing and over time we see another.

10 and 40 year surprises

2019 LTER Science Council May 14-16, 2019

10 year – legacy of human impact

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10 year – a warming world

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10 year – challenging dogma

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40 year – Response to disturbance

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40 year – Fire regimes

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40 year – Governance and influence

2019 LTER Science Council May 14-16, 20192019 LTER Science Council May 14-16, 2019

“[T]he extent and frequency of major ‘surprises’ in ecological systems argue for substantial humility about our predictive abilities.”

- Dan Doak

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