@proceedings {JRN55368,
	title = {Mapping North America agroecosystems: A social-ecological systems approach},
	year = {2022},
	month = {3/30/2022},
	abstract = {Mapping the types and locations of agroecoregions is useful for understanding how communities and the landscapes within which they are embedded interact. Despite the utility of these spatial approaches, a theory-driven description of agroecoregions in the continental United States (CONUS) has not been widely adopted.  To help provide one such description, we outlined CONUS agroecoregions using a clustering analysis based in a social-ecological systems (SES) framework. First, we evaluated six SES frameworks for their suitability in mapping agroecoregions.  Based upon our criteria, we selected the Ostrom social-ecological systems framework (SESF) to guide our selection of variables. Using a literature review and existing datasets, we identified candidate county-level variables that could represent the Tier Two SESF sub-categories in different categories (Resource System, Resource Units, Governance System, Actor). We then scored each variable based upon its applicability to the SESF with the top scoring variable in each sub-category selected for our analysis.  We used these variables as inputs for our clustering and then evaluated combinations of different clustering algorithms and number of clusters.  We selected the final combination based upon the interpretability its results.  We mapped these clusters and interpreted the resulting agroecoregions based upon differences in the relative mean values of their Tier Two categories.  As an application of this approach to identifying agroecoregions, we evaluated how these agroecoregions related to differences in SES outcomes, including human and ecosystem health.  We will discuss our findings and how our approach for outlining agroecoregions can help increase understanding of landscape processes.  },
	keywords = {agroecosystems, approach, mapping, North America, social-ecological, systems},
	author = {Zachary Hurst and D W Archer and A. W. Coffin and Tiff Van Huysen and Sarah Goslee and Katie Pisarello and J. D. Wulfhorst and S. Spiegal}
}
@proceedings {JRN55367,
	title = {Understanding Collaboration in a Research Network: The Role of Trust},
	year = {2022},
	month = {3/30/2022},
	abstract = {The agricultural research community has pushed to increase the impact of research via the development of scientific networks. These networks strive for multi-site, coordinated research, which is frequently administered within an organizational structure. In any research process, there are uncertainties regarding its outcomes, which can be compounded in a network setting because research must fit within a researcher social network and organizational structure. Researchers must be willing to accept a level of vulnerability in relation to their research outcomes. Given such a dynamic, it is likely that trust will play an important role in researchers{\textquoteright} involvement with the network organization. To understand the role of trust in collaboration, we evaluated researcher trust, collaboration behavior, and behavioral intentions within a science network using an online questionnaire. We asked researchers about their research activities and intentions, trust, and their perspectives regarding the research network. We found support for four types of trust among researchers: affective, procedural, dispositional and rational. Using a regression analysis, we found that trust does play a role in researchers{\textquoteright} behavioral intentions, however, not all forms of trust were related to behavioral intentions nor were they positively associated with collaboration. Based upon our findings, we provide theoretical insights about collaboration, as well as, recommendations to help foster collaboration within research networks and among researchers more generally.},
	keywords = {behavioral intentions, networks, organizational structure, scientific networks},
	author = {Zachary Hurst and Meredith Gwendwr and Claire Friedrichsen and J. D. Wulfhorst}
}
