Daniel J. Bain,^* Mark B. Green,^** John L. Campbell,^*** John F. Chamblee,^**** Sayo Chaoka,^***** Jennifer M. Fraterrigo,^****** Sujay S. Kaushal,^******* Sherry L. Martin,^******** Thomas E. Jordan,^********* Anthony J. Parolari,^********** William V. Sobczak,^*********** Donald E. Weller,^********* Wilfred M. Wollheim,^************ Emery R. Boose,^{*************} Jonathan M. Duncan,^{**************} Gretchen M. Gettel,^{***************} Brian R. Hall,^{*************} Praveen Kumar,^***** Jonathan R. Thompson,^{****************} James M. Vose,^{*****************} Emily M. Elliott,^* David S. Leigh<sup>******************


*</sup>Daniel J. Bain (dbain@pitt.edu) and Emily M. Elliott are affiliated with the Department of Geology and Planetary Science at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
^**Mark B. Green is affiliated with the Center for the Environment at Plymouth State University, in Plymouth, New Hampshire and with the US Forest Service's Northern Research Station, in Durham, New Hampshire.
^***John L. Campbell is also affiliated with the US Forest Service's Northern Research Station, in Durham, New Hampshire.
^****John F. Chamblee is affiliated with the University of Georgia, in Athens.
^*****Sayo Chaoka and Praveen Kumar are affiliated with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign.
^******Jennifer M. Fraterrigo is affiliated with the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign.
^*******Sujay S. Kaushal is affiliated with the Department of Geology and the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center at the University of Maryland, in College Park.
^********Sherry L. Martin is affiliated with the Department of Geological Sciences at Michigan State University, in East Lansing.
^*********Thomas E. Jordan and Donald E. Weiler are affiliated with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, in Edgewater, Maryland.
^**********Anthony J. Parolari is affiliated with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge.
^***********William V. Sobczak is affiliated with the Department of Biology at the College of the Holy Cross, in Worcester, Massachusetts.
^************Wilfred M. Wollheim is affiliated with the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment and with the Environments and Complex Systems Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, in Durham.
^{*************}Emery R. Boose and Brian R. Hall are affiliated with Harvard University's Harvard Forest, in Petersham, Massachusetts.
^{**************}Jonathan M. Duncan is affiliated with Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
^{***************}Gretchen M. Gettel is affiliated with United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering, in Delft, in the Netherlands.
^{****************}Jonathan R. Thompson is affiliated with the Smithsonian Institutions Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, in Front Royal, Virginia.
^{*****************}James M. Vose is affiliated with the US Forest Service's Southern Research Station, in Otto, North Carolina.
^{******************}David S. Leigh is affiliated with the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia, in Athens.