A blueprint for creating high performing teams of collaborative ecologists and environmental scientists

Although effective teamwork has been widely studied, little of this information is readily accessible to ecologists and environmental scientists. In this article, we provide a Blueprint, comprised of 10 professional tips, to guide ecological and environmental science teams towards high-performance and effective collaborations. This blueprint uses illustrative qualitative survey data and network analysis data from an international ecology-based team that used a values-based approach to influence the structure of their network, interpersonal relationships, build trust, and achieve their goals of creating an expansive collaborative to allow for sharing of data.