Many LTER sites and research projects outside the LTER Network are demonstrating there are common patterns to land use history. However, there is major uncertainty in our understanding of the…
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Species Richness in Space and Time
Estimating the number of species in a community or ecosystem is a fundamental problem in basic and conservation ecology. Basic researchers use biodiversity estimates to study latitudinal diversity gradients, to…
LTER Extreme Events Working Group
Most global climate change scenarios predict an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather and climate events. Ecologists and other scientists engaged in ecosystem research recognize that these…
Biodiversity of Riparian Ecotones
LTER Workshop on Litter Decomposition Synthesis
Functional Response to Resource Change across LTER Sites (Biodiversity of Riparian Ecotones)
Workshop Proposal: Biodiversity of Riparian Ecotones As ecotones between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, riparian zones are templates for the dynamic exchange of energy, nutrients and biological interactions. Recent studies in…
Synthetic Effort to Characterize the Controls on Nitrogen Transportation through Streams & Rivers
Proposal to for a workshop to assess needs for a large-scale cross-site synthetic effort to characterize the controls on nitrogen transport through streams and rivers Background Human sources now rival…
Metapopulation dynamics and Meta Community Structure
DIRT – continuation of C1 meetings
The response of watershed nitrogen retention to large-scale climate disturbance across the LTER network.
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