2018 All-Scientists’ Meeting Sessions and times are now confirmed. Locations may change, but will be updated on Sched.
**Please Note: If you sync you calendar, sessions will appear in your local time zone. This can be confusing until you arrive on site (when your local time zone will be the correct one).**
Herbivores often impact primary producers, but are all herbivores made equal? Work in African savannas shows that body size can determine the strength of herbivore impact on plant community composition and ecosystem function. Although the Americas lack the wealth of large mammals found in Africa, herbivores across North American biomes are still diverse ranging from insects to bison and urchins to dugongs. LTER could play an important role in investigating the differential effects of herbivore size class in a variety of ecosystem types. In this workshop, we will discuss ways to create network-wide common experiments for examining the effects of herbivore types, as well as the potential for synthesis and meta-analysis on this topic.
