Hi EcoLog, I need your help to save an 80 year old long-term study of forest dynamics. Purdue's Ross Reserve forest has been measured continuously every 10 years since 1949. The next census is due in 2019, and I haven't been able to fund a crew to measure the trees with the state of science funding in the USA right now. I imagine everyone here knows the importance of long term data in Ecology. These data are similar to data from places like Barro Colorado Island (BCI), except The Ross Reserve has been measured for 50 years longer than BCI.
It's one of the oldest data sets I know, and it would be a shame if it ended with the retirement of the prof who has been maintaining it. I've started a crowd funding campaign. There's a video, and more details at the link below. If you would consider giving, and sharing the link, we might be able to maintain these data together. https://experiment.com/projects/80-years-of-forest-dynamics-at-ross-biological-reserve Thanks, Gordon McNickle Assistant Professor, Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University.
