Talk Description: About 30% of global carbon stocks reside in the vegetation and deep, carbon-rich soils of Arctic tundra and boreal forest biomes. Wildfires—which are becoming more frequent with warmer…
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Climate-Resilient Coasts: How long-term research and restoration informs management
Talk Description: Coastal habitats are the first line of defense against sea-level rise and storms. At the same time, they are vulnerable to change, and can be pushed past tipping…
Fruška gora LTER site from the perspective of hoverflies, treeclimbers and satellites
By Dušanka Krašić If it wasn’t for this geological bump (the highest peak 549m), the northern part of Serbia would remain devoid of many ecosystem services, much of its biodiversity,…
Legacy of acid rain: A tale of two species
Talk Description: Air pollution control efforts have succeeded in reducing sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions, but decades of acid rain have leached calcium and magnesium from Northeastern forest soils….
Plausible freshwater futures: Yahara watershed, Wisconsin, USA
Talk Description: Scenarios can help communities think about alternative futures, but using them to drive decisions requires data. In Wisconsin’s Yahara Watershed, researchers are combining data and modelling from the…
2017 NSF Symposium: Discovering the Nature of Ecosystem Change
When: March 21, 2017 Where: Room 375, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia Even as sea-level rise, drought, and fire increase pressures on some ecological systems, others are…
In the realm of blueberries and moss… radiometry measurements at Kindla Integrated Monitoring site, Sweden
Our equipment for making understory spectra measurements at Kindla (from right to left): portable spectrometer; controlling unit (laptop); measuring tape and forest flags for laying out and marking transects; white…
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Plants and Nitrogen – a love & hate relationship
Sampling plants at an iLTER site in Scotland, Credit: Melanie Batista Author: Melanie Batista of Universidade de Lisboa Hi there! I want to tell you about my visit to the…
Kelp forest boot camp
An exceptional day in the Santa Barbara Channel. Credit: Joey Peters By Joey Peters This past summer I took advantage of an offer to get an early start on my…









