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Explore how human activities influence agrarian landscapes, driving ecological consequences and human responses across regions.

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  1. Main Questions • How do human activities influence the spatial and temporal structures of agrarian landscapes? How does this vary over time and across biogeographic regions? • What are the ecological and environmental consequences of the resulting structural changes? • What are the human responses to both these structural and ecological changes, and how do these responses drive further changes in agrarian landscapes?

  2. Innovations • Multi-scalar and cross scalar; spanning temporal, spatial, and organizational scales • Attention to long time spans; especially lags and legacies • Nature of influences and feedbacks; relationship to shifts in stability regimes and resilience • Framework is comparative: cross-site, cross-cultural, and cross-biogeographical • Strategy is to integrate qualitative with quantitative approaches

  3. Approaches • Data and maps • Demographic, agricultural, ecological, land use • Over time and at different scales • Case studies • Different ‘triggering events’ and stories in each region • Integrate insights from a qualitative approach • Analytical approaches • Statistical, modeling approaches • Application • Scenario building • Approaches to conservation

  4. Questions for this Workshop • What kinds of agrarian landscape transformations should we focus upon? (introduction, growth, stability, transformation, decline, abandonment) • Will these be the same for each study site? • How will we define the temporal and spatial boundaries of each study site? • What ecological features do we want to monitor?

  5. Questions to pose going forward • What has driven agrarian transformations at your site? • What can we know about agrarian landscapes in the past? • What have been the triggering events of the past? • What have been the impacts of those transformations?

  6. Agricultural Landscapes in Transition • • HFR KBS • SGS• •KNZ • CWT CAP • •Yaqui Valley LTER Partners HFR- Harvard Forest CAP- Central Arizona- Phoenix SGS- Shortgrass Steppe KBS- Kellogg Biological Station CWT- Coweeta KNZ- Konza Prairie Non-LTER Partners TNC- The Nature Conservancy Yaqui Valley Study, Mexico Archaeomedes Project, France

  7. KBS LTER *Alan Rudy (Executive Committee) Craig Harris Konza LTER *Gerad Middendorf Baltimore Ecosystem Study Morgan Grove International Partners Sander van der Leeuw (Archaeomedes Project, France) Pamela Matson, Stanford (Yaqui Valley, Mexico Regional Sustainability Study) AG TRANS Participants, by Site • CAP LTER • *Charles Redman (PI/PD) • *Ann Kinzig (Co‑PI) • Numerous CAP LTER folk • Harvard Forest LTER • *David Foster (Co‑PI) • David Kittredge • University of Michigan/SGS)LTER • *Myron Gutmann (Co‑PI) • Ken Sylvester • The Nature Conservancy • *Peter Kareiva (Co‑PI) • Rebecca Shaw • Coweeta LTER • *Ted Gragson • Paul Bolstad * = Executive Committee

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