Grant history of an LTER site
Harvard Forest Temperate forests, such as those that dominate the eastern United States, are critically important ecosystems at regional to global scales. They harbor a diversity of species and habitats, provide essential resources, offer important amenities to densely populated regions, and comprise key elements in global carbon budgets. Understanding the structure, function and patterns of… Read more »
The Harvard Forest LTER (HFR) investigates forest response to natural and human disturbance and environmental change over broad spatial and temporal scales. Involving many researchers and students from a dozen institutions, HFR embraces the biological, physical, and social sciences to address fundamental and applied questions for dynamic ecosystems. Its work on the ecological effects of… Read more »
The Harvard Forest LTER program is a two decade-strong, integrated research and educational program investigating forest responses to human and environmental change across the New England region. HFR engages more than 30 researchers, 200 graduate and undergraduate students, and dozens of institutions in research that incorporates social, biological, and physical sciences. Scientists conduct this work… Read more »
For thirty years the Harvard Forest Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program has been dedicated to understanding New England’s forests. The heart of the program is a group of scientists and students who do experiments and measure the many ways that forests change over time. They are especially interested in how forests are linked to… Read more »
9411975 Foster Forest ecosystems worldwide are changing in response to direct and indirect human activities. These present a significant challenge requiring interpretation of the driving variables across wide temporal and spatial scales. These dynamics also present an opportunity to evaluate the mechanisms regulating ecosystem responses. Harvard Forest LTER I assessed temperate forest response to human… Read more »
This research project will examine the general hypothesis that desertification has altered a previous, relatively uniform distribution of water and nitrogen by increasing their spatial and temporal heterogeneity, leading to changes in community composition and biogeochemical processes in Chihuahuan Desert ecosystems. The Jornada Experimental Ranch (southern New Mexico), with a 75-year history of rangeland research,… Read more »
This project investigates: (1) recent changes in the nature and strength of the links between academic research and industrial innovation in various industries, (2) differences among small, medium-sized and large firms in the extent to which their innovations are based on recent academic research and in the ways in which they tap into, use, and… Read more »
Chicuahuan Desert landscapes exemplify the ecological conditions, vulnerability and management issues found in semi-arid regions around the globe. The goal of the Jornada Basin Long-Term Ecological Research program is to identify the key factors that control ecosystem dynamics in semi-arid landscapes, with the objective of understanding the causes and consequences of desertification. Pervious LTER work… Read more »
Chihuahuan Desert landscapes exemplify the ecological conditions, vulnerability, and management issues found in arid and semi-arid regions around the world. The goal of the Jornada Basin Long-Term Ecological Research program (JRN) , established in 1982, is to understand and quantify the causes and consequences of desertification in these systems. In collaboration with its research partner,… Read more »
This is a renewal request of the Cedar Creek Natural History Area Long-term Ecological Research project. The nine co-investigators of the Cedar Creek LTER are using theory with long-term experiments and observations to examine (1) controls of biodiversity, community assembly and ecosystem functioning in upland ecosystems at the prairie-forest boundary, (2) the effects of both… Read more »
