Description: This book explores the broader impacts arising from collaborative and multidisciplinary participation in the Long-Term Ecological (LTER) Program with regard to personal perspectives, attitudes, and practices. A series of retrospective essays addresses probing questions to uncover the extent to which participation has affected the ways that scientists conduct research, educate students, or provide outreach. Concluding chapters integrate and synthesize the findings from the essays from historical, behavioral, sociological perspectives.
Review Quotes: "This edited volume provides insiders' views of ways that that long-term collaborative ecological research has shaped science and scientists in the U.S. Long-Term Ecological Research network. The book is a testament to the value of personal and institutional commitments to science that is much broader than the contributions of any single scientist."--F. Stuart Chapin, Professor Emeritus of Ecology, Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks
"This book is a wonderful collection of individual vignettes on how this extraordinarily successful research program has personally and professionally impacted participating scientists! It is interesting and offers profound testimony to the importance of long-term, collaborative, ecosystem-based science."--Jerry F. Franklin, Professor of Ecosystem Analysis, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington