1. Threshold Change Thresholds with a landscape or regional effect Driving variable Response variable

2. Monthly Talks - Thresholds 1.Common approaches for manipulations (Valentine, Turetsky…) 2.Loss of moss as potential threshold (Mack, Hollingsworth, Turetsky) 3.Spruce budworm and climate change (Juday) 4.Predictive rules for post-fire succession in upland forests (Johnstone and Juday) 5.Synthesis of floodplain successional studies, including ecosystem processes – what are the critical measurements and stages we should focus on to capture future changes (Kielland and Yarie) 6.Permafrost driving variables and response (thresholds causing thresholds) (Schuur et al.) 7.Conceptual model: Linking permafrost, wildfire, SOM and hydrology (Jones, Harden, Hollingsworth and Romanovsky) 8.River stage/wetland formation, peat buffering river influence? (Jones and Turetsky) 9.Hydrology manipulations and their usefulness for threshold studies (Valentine et al.) 10.John Lundquist – landscape pathologist 11.Talk on how endemics become outbreak species?

3. Monthly Talks – Integration and Synthesis 1.Coupling models with field based approaches (McGuire et al.) 2.… 3.… 4.Ecosystem Services – Trista Patterson

4. Monthly Talks Involvement of folks outside UAF?