G. Philip Robertson,^* Vivien G. Allen,^** George Boody,^*** Emery R. Boose,^**** Nancy G. Creamer,^***** Laurie E. Drinkwater,^****** James R. Gosz,^******* Lori Lynch,^******** John L. Havlin,^********* Louise E. Jackson,^********** Steward T. A. Pickett,^*********** Louis Pitelka,^************ Alan Randall,^{*************} A. Scott Reed,^{**************} Timothy R. Seastedt,^{***************} Robert B. Waide,^{****************} Diana H. Wall<sup>*****************


*</sup>G. Philip Robertson (e-mail: robertson@kbs.msu.edu) is with the W. K. Kellogg Biological Station and Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at Michigan State University in Hickory Corners.
^**Vivien G. Allen is with the Department of Plant and Soil Science at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.
^***George Boody is with the Land Stewardship Project in White Bear Lake, Minnesota.
^****Emery R. Boose is with Harvard Forest at Harvard University, Petersham, Massachusetts.
^*****Nancy G. Creamer is with the Center for Environmental Farming Systems, at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
^******Laurie E. Drinkwater is with the Department of Horticulture at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
^*******James R. Gosz is with the Department of Biology at the University of Idaho in Moscow.
^********Lori Lynch is with the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, at the University of Maryland in College Park.
^*********John L. Havlin is with the Department of Soil Science, at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.
^**********Louise E. Jackson is with the Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources at the University of California–Davis.
^***********Steward T. A. Pickett is with the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York.
^************Louis Pitelka is with the Center for Environmental Science, at the University of Maryland in College Park.
^{*************}Alan Randall is with the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at the Ohio State University in Columbus.
^{**************}A. Scott Reed is with the Extension Service and College of Forestry at Oregon State University in Corvallis.
^{***************}Timothy R. Seastedt is with INSTARR (Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research) at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
^{****************}Robert B. Waide is with the Department of Biology at the University of NewMexico in Albuquerque.
^{*****************}Diana H. Wall is with the Department of Biology and Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.