<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Iwaniec, David M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Michael N. Gooseff</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Suding, Katharine N.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Johnson, David Samuel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Reed, Daniel C.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Debra P. C. Peters</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Byron Adams</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">John E. 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Ongoing demand for critical ecosystem services requires an understanding of the populations and communities in these ecosystems in the future. This paper represents a synthesis effort of the U.S. National Science Foundation-funded Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) network addressing the core research area of &amp;ldquo;populations and communities.&amp;rdquo; The objective of this effort was to show the importance of long-term data collection and experiments for addressing the hardest questions in scientific ecology that have significant implications for environmental policy and management. Each LTER site developed at least one compelling case study about what their site could look like in 50&amp;ndash;100 yr as human and environmental drivers influencing specific ecosystems change. As the case studies were prepared, five themes emerged, and the studies were grouped into papers in this LTER Futures Special Feature addressing state change, connectivity, resilience, time lags, and cascading effects. This paper addresses the &amp;ldquo;connectivity&amp;rdquo; theme and has examples from the Phoenix (urban), Niwot Ridge (alpine tundra), McMurdo Dry Valleys (polar desert), Plum Island (coastal), Santa Barbara Coastal (coastal), and Jornada (arid grassland and shrubland) sites. Connectivity has multiple dimensions, ranging from multi-scalar interactions in space to complex interactions over time that govern the transport of materials and the distribution and movement of organisms. The case studies presented here range widely, showing how land-use legacies interact with climate to alter the structure and function of arid ecosystems and flows of resources and organisms in Antarctic polar desert, alpine, urban, and coastal marine ecosystems. Long-term ecological research demonstrates that connectivity can, in some circumstances, sustain valuable ecosystem functions, such as the persistence of foundation species and their associated biodiversity or, it can be an agent of state change, as when it increases wind and water erosion. Increased connectivity due to warming can also lead to species range expansions or contractions and the introduction of undesirable species. Continued long-term studies are essential for addressing the complexities of connectivity. The diversity of ecosystems within the LTER network is a strong platform for these studies.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">5</style></issue></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dornelas, Maria</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Antão, Laura H.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Moyes, Faye</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bates, Amanda E.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Magurran, Anne E.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Adam, Dušan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Akhmetzhanova, Asem A.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Appeltans, Ward</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Arcos, José Manuel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Arnold, Haley</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ayyappan, Narayanan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Badihi, Gal</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Baird, Andrew H.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Barbosa, Miguel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Barreto, Tiago Egydio</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bässler, Claus</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bellgrove, Alecia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Belmaker, Jonathan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Benedetti-Cecchi, Lisandro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bett, Brian J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bjorkman, Anne D.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Błażewicz, Magdalena</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Blowes, Shane A.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bloch, Christopher P.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bonebrake, Timothy C.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Boyd, Susan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bradford, Matt</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Brooks, Andrew J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Brown, James H.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bruelheide, Helge</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Budy, Phaedra</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Carvalho, Fernando</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Castañeda-Moya, Edward</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chen, Chaolun Allen</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chamblee, John F.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Chase, Tory J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Siegwart Collier, Laura</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Collinge, Sharon K.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Condit, Richard</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cooper, Elisabeth J.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cornelissen, J. 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G.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Maluf Souza, Flaviana</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Castro Souza, Vinícius</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stallings, Christopher D.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stanforth, Rowan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stanley, Emily H.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mauro Sterza, José</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stevens, Maarten</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stuart-Smith, Rick</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Rondon Suarez, Yzel</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Supp, Sarah</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Global Ecology and Biogeography</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">biodiversity</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">global</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">spatial</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">species richness</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">temporal</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">turnover</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2018</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">07/2018</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/geb.12729</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">27</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">760-786</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Motivation: &lt;/strong&gt;The BioTIME database contains raw data on species identities and abundances in ecological assemblages through time. These data enable users to calculate temporal trends in biodiversity within and amongst assemblages using a broad range of metrics. BioTIME is being developed as a community-led open-source database of biodiversity time series. Our goal is to accelerate and facilitate quantitative analysis of temporal patterns of biodiversity in the Anthropocene.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Main types of variables included: &lt;/strong&gt;The database contains 8,777,413 species abundance records, from assemblages consistently sampled for a minimum of 2 years, which need not necessarily be consecutive. In addition, the database contains metadata relating to sampling methodology and contextual information about each record.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Spatial location and grain:&lt;/strong&gt; BioTIME is a global database of 547,161 unique sampling locations spanning the marine, freshwater and terrestrial realms. Grain size varies across datasets from 0.0000000158 km2 (158 cm2) to 100 km2 (1,000,000,000,000 cm2). Time period and grain BioTIME records span from 1874 to 2016. The minimal temporal grain across all datasets in BioTIME is a year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Major taxa and level of measurement:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;BioTIME includes data from 44,440 species across the plant and animal kingdoms, ranging from plants, plankton and terrestrial invertebrates to small and large vertebrates.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Software format:&lt;/strong&gt; .csv and .SQL.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">7</style></issue></record></records></xml>