Grant history of an LTER site
Intellectual Merit The Georgia Coastal Ecosystems (GCE) LTER is located along three adjacent sounds on the Atlantic coast and includes both intertidal marshes and estuaries. Long-term drivers of climate change, sea level rise and human alterations of the landscape will cause transitions in dominant habitat types (state changes) within the GCE domain by changing the… Read more »
The Georgia Coastal Ecosystems (GCE) Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program, based at the University of Georgia Marine Institute on Sapelo Island, Georgia, was established in 2000 to study long-term change in coastal ecosystems. Estuaries (places where salt water from the ocean mixes with fresh water from the land) and their adjacent marshes provide food… Read more »
This project will continue the research activities of the Hubbard Brook Long-term Ecological Research project (HBR-LTER), expanding upon the original theme, the effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbances on the structure and function of northern hardwood forest ecosystem. Through an integrated program of monitoring and process-level studies the investigators will examine four principal categories of… Read more »
9810221 Fahey This project will continue the Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in an effort to improve general understanding of the mutual influences of environment, disturbance, biological activity and the flows of energy and materials in forest landscapes. This integrated program of long-term monitoring and process-level studies at Hubbard Brook… Read more »
With its half-century history of ecological research, the Hubbard Brook (HBR) site has evolved into a model LTER gathering unique and extremely valuable records of long-term biogeochemical cycling in forested watershed ecosystems. The overarching goal of HBR is to increase understanding of the ecological patterns and processes that characterize forested landscapes in the northeastern USA,… Read more »
The Hubbard Brook (HBR) Experimental Forest LTER project began in 1988, drawing on a history of forest ecosystem research that began in the 1950s, and has the continuing overall goal of improving understanding of the structure and function of Northern Forest ecosystems and their responses to environmental change and disturbance. This project will advance the… Read more »
The Hubbard Brook (HBR) Experimental Forest LTER project began in 1988, drawing on a history of forest ecosystem research that began in the 1950s, and has the continuing overall goal of improving understanding of the structure and function of Northern Forest ecosystems and their responses to environmental change and disturbance. This project will advance the… Read more »
The Hubbard Brook (HBR) Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project is an interdisciplinary research program focused on improving the understanding and management of Northern Forest ecosystems. These important natural resources that contribute ecosystem services such as carbon storage, nutrient cycling, water and air purification, and wildlife habitat are impacted by natural and man-made disturbances. Those disturbances… Read more »
The need for long-term research on forest ecosystems has accelerated markedly in recent years. Traditional interests in provision of wood products and clean water have expanded to include climate mitigation, biodiversity conservation, and ecological and social resilience. Forests are complex ecosystems, dominated by long-lived organisms, and are highly connected to adjacent ecosystems at many scales…. Read more »
The Harvard Forest in central Massachusetts has been an active research facility for the study of forest ecosystems since 1907. The central theme of this project is a comparison, in the context of Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER), of historically important physical disturbances and recent and projected chemical disturbances in terms of their effect on forest… Read more »
