Invite collaborators: A record.

[maurolepore]

(Just to keep track of when and who has been invited.)

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From: Teixeira, Kristina A.
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 1:40:02 PM (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
To: Lepore, Mauro; Rutishauser, Ervan; Muller-Landau, Helene; Davies, Stuart J.; McMahon, Sean; Arellano, Gabriel; Nathan G. Swenson; Wright, Joe; Jim Lutz
Cc: Gonzalez, Erika B.
Subject: ForestGEO biomass allometry data pub

Hi all,

As most/all of you already know, Mauro is preparing a new function to calculate biomass for the CTFS R package, and Erika is working to compile the best available biomass allometries and wood density data for all ForestGEO sites. Specifically, she’s consulting site PIs (particularly for temperate sites) as to the best allometries for their site, compiling species-specific allometries for temperate sites, compiling wood density data for tropical species, etc. We are aiming to formally document this and publish it as a data paper in Ecology, which will provide citable documentation of our methods and present a platform for future updates. We plan to invite all site PIs who contribute allometries or wood density data as coauthors.

At this early stage, we’d like to set up a videoconference for those of you who have already been contributing to this discussion and/or have significant interest and expertise in the subject in order to give an overview of our plans and get your comments. Those of you on this email are people who I think will be most interested in this effort, but please don’t feel obligated to engage, and feel free to add in anyone I’ve missed that you think would like to engage on this level.

We’re hoping to set up a meeting sometime within the next couple weeks. Erika will set up a poll.

We are managing this project in Github, and anyone who would like to have access to the repository should let Mauro know.

all my best,

Krista

[teixeirak]

As we'll have a ton of coauthors on this paper, it will help to create a spreadsheet with name, email, affiliation. I have one from our GCB review that can be modified.

[maurolepore]

Getting records out of the way of open issues.

To follow up, extracting @teixeirak's comment in this separate issue: #24.