CSI Limno making a splash in Frontiers

The new issue of ESA's journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment is out, and CSI Limnology has a prominent role. It is free for anyone to check out here: http://www.esajournals.org/toc/fron/12/1. Thanks to the US NSF for paying for open access. 

This special issue is about a new field of research called Macrosystems Ecology. 
Check out MSU's press release about the special issue, including a short animation describing the new discipline, here: http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2014/new-scientific-field-looks-at-the-big-picture/.

NSF also issued a shorter and longer press release, both of which can be accessed here: http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=130218&org=NSF&from=news and http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=130218&org=NSF.

Our leader, Dr. Pat Soranno, was co-editor of this special issue about Macrosystems Ecology. She co-authored the lead editorial about this new field of study (Macrosystems ecology: big data, big ecology: http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/1540-9295-12.1.3) and the first paper that describes this new field of science (Macrosystems ecology: understanding ecological patterns and processes at continental scales: http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/130017). 

Many of the CSI Limnology team members are lead or co-authors on the five main papers in this special issue: 

• Macrosystems ecology: understanding ecological patterns and processes at continental scales (http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/130017)
• Approaches to advance scientific understanding of macrosystems ecology (http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/130019)
• Completing the data life cycle: using information management in macrosystems ecology research (http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/120375)
• Creating and maintaining high-performing collaborative research teams: the importance of diversity and interpersonal skills (http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/130001)
• Improving the culture of interdisciplinary collaboration in ecology by expanding measures of success (http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/120370)

And, there is a project paper all about CSIs, written by CSI-Limnology!  "Cross-scale interactions: quantifying multi-scaled cause–effect relationships in macrosystems" (http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/120366) documents the importance of interactions across scales (time or space) for understanding large-scale ecological patterns and processes. We provide a conceptual framework for how to study CSIs and then apply that framework to lake data across 6 US states. Check it out! The whole issue, including online supplements can be found here: http://www.esajournals.org/toc/fron/12/1