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\title{Authorea Researcher Spotlight: Jingjing Liang}


\author[ ]{David Banys}
\author[ ]{Josh Nicholson}

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\section*{Background}\label{background}

Jingjing Liang is Assistant Professor of Forest Ecology at
\href{http://www.wvu.edu/}{West Virginia University}. He is Coordinator
of the \href{http://www.gfbinitiative.org/}{Global Forest Biodiversity
Initiative} (GFBI), an international, multi-stakeholder team of
foresters and forest scientists supporting cutting-edge research and
policy making in forest sciences and related areas.

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Jingjing is also the lead author of GFBI's first major scientific paper:
Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global
forests~\cite{Liang_2016}. The paper, which was written collaboratively
in Authorea by a team of over eighty researchers, was published in the
the \href{http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6309/aaf8957}{Oct.
14, 2016 issue} of
\href{https://www.authorea.com/templates/science}{Science}.

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\section*{Interview}\label{interview}

\emph{\textbf{Authorea}: Congratulations on publishing in Science! How
long has this paper been in the works?}

\textbf{Jingjing Liang}: We started the data compilation and analysis in
October 2015, and completed the first draft in May, 2016. That being
said, our data collection work started a few years ago.

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\emph{\textbf{Authorea}: Your team analyzed a forest inventory of more
than 777,000 sample plots in 44 countries containing more than 30
million trees, making this one of the first attempts to gain a global
perspective on the effect of biodiversity on ecosystem productivity. Can
you contextualize this accomplishment for us?}

\textbf{Jingjing Liang}: Sure, forest inventory data are among the most
expensive data to collect on this planet, because 1) it takes skilled
and experienced foresters to do the work, and 2) the transportation and
related logistics to and from the sites make an inventory trip very
costly. According to my rough estimate, measuring 100 plots in remote
areas cost \$50,000 per year, so, the measurement of all the GFBI plots
alone would cost US\$400,000,000. GFBI plot data consist one of the
largest ground-sourced data set in the world, and would be valuable in
many applications from policy making to research support.

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\textbf{\emph{Authorea:~}}\emph{You argue that the worldwide
productivity of forests decreases at an accelerating rate with the loss
of biodiversity -- does this mean essentially that it's less costly to
preserve biodiversity than it is not to?}

\textbf{Jingjing Liang:~}Yes, also because we have shown in the article
that conserving biodiversity can lead to potential forestry dividends
that would far exceed the annual cost of effective biodiversity
conservation worldwide.

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\textbf{\emph{Authorea:~}}\emph{What do you see for the future of
biodiversity-productivity relationship (BPR) analyses?}

\textbf{Jingjing Liang:~}BPR analyses would thrive in two fronts- big
data and controlled experiments. The big data approach addresses the
observed patterns in natural ecosystems, whereas the experiments
addresses the mechanisms behind the foregoing patterns.

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\textbf{\emph{Authorea:~}}\emph{Your paper contained 84 authors in
total. How did you coordinate the writing and work with such a large
group? Were there advantages and disadvantages to such a collaboration
that you faced?}

\textbf{Jingjing Liang:~}It is very challenging and takes lots of
patience and respect to others. It~ is difficult to please everyone, or
anyone in that matter, but science takes collaboration, and
collaboration takes mutual respect, compromise, and even sacrifice.

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\textbf{\emph{Authorea:~}}\emph{Was there a key reason why you decided
to write your article on Authorea?~ What were some of the features you
liked?}

\textbf{Jingjing Liang:~}We needed a platform that facilitates
manuscript development by a large group. Authorea proves to be the
platform that we need. It is easy to register and easy to use. The only
thing I would recommend is to set the default of ``email each comment to
everyone'' option to ``email none'', for a large-group collaboration.

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\emph{For more information on the Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative,
please visit:~\url{http://www.gfbinitiative.org/research}}

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