TY - JOUR
T1 - The US Long Term Ecological Research program
AU - Hobbie, John E.
AU - Carpenter, Stephen R.
AU - Grimm, Nancy
AU - Gosz, James R.
AU - Seastedt, Timothy R.
N1 - Funding Information:
lowing the US IBP projects, the National Science Foundation (NSF) began a program of site-based research, with an emphasis on long-term studies (Franklin et al. 1990). Today, there are 24 projects (figure 1) located in a wide variety of habitats, ranging from the Arctic and Antarctic to the tropics of Puerto Rico, from the deserts of New Mexico to the forests of Oregon and Massachusetts, and from the lakes of Wisconsin to the mangrove wetlands of Florida. Two projects are located in the urban areas of Baltimore and Phoenix.
PY - 2003/1/1
Y1 - 2003/1/1
N2 - The 24 projects of the National Science Foundation's Long Term Ecological Research Network, whose sites range from the poles to the Tropics, from rain forests to tundras and deserts, and from offshore marine to estuarine and freshwater habitats, address fundamental and applied ecological issues that can be understood only through a long-term approach. Each project addresses different ecological questions; even the scale of research differs across sites. Projects in the network are linked by the requirement for some research at each site on five core areas, including primary production, decomposition, and trophic dynamics, and by cross-site comparisons, which are aided by the universally available databases. Many species and environmental variables are studied, and a wide range of synthetic results have been generated.
AB - The 24 projects of the National Science Foundation's Long Term Ecological Research Network, whose sites range from the poles to the Tropics, from rain forests to tundras and deserts, and from offshore marine to estuarine and freshwater habitats, address fundamental and applied ecological issues that can be understood only through a long-term approach. Each project addresses different ecological questions; even the scale of research differs across sites. Projects in the network are linked by the requirement for some research at each site on five core areas, including primary production, decomposition, and trophic dynamics, and by cross-site comparisons, which are aided by the universally available databases. Many species and environmental variables are studied, and a wide range of synthetic results have been generated.
KW - LTER Network
KW - LTER accomplishments
KW - LTER description
KW - LTER history
KW - Long-term ecological research
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U2 - 10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[0021:TULTER]2.0.CO;2
DO - 10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[0021:TULTER]2.0.CO;2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0037233267
SN - 0006-3568
VL - 53
SP - 21
EP - 32
JO - BioScience
JF - BioScience
IS - 1
ER -