Research at LTER sites develops deep knowledge of particular ecosystems, yet the power of the Network is in comparing and contrasting across and among sites. To facilitate site comparison and…
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Integrating plant community and ecosystem responses to chronic global change drivers
…2) link these patterns of community change to changes in aboveground net primary productivity and carbon storage; and 3) incorporate community change into ecosystem models predicting functional responses to GCDs….
**CANCELLED** Engaging Local Communities, Part 2: Seed Projects
September 24, 2025 @ 9:00 am –
Consumer Absence Generates Ecological Dissimilarity (CAGED)
…ecosystems to evaluate how consumer loss influences community variability across space (i.e., dissimilarity in community composition). The project will combine seventy-five exclusion experiment datasets from studies at LTERs, the Grazing…
Publications Committee [currently inactive]
The LTER Publications Committee (PC) is a network-level standing committee. The primary operational responsibility of the LTER Publications Committee is to facilitate the publication of volumes within the US LTER…
2001 Technology Task Committee Working Group Report
…committee report contained a number of recommendations and provided the background for this meeting. In January of 2001, John Vande Castle, the committee chair, organized a subset of the committee…
About the Network
…The common focus on core areas facilitates comparison among and across sites in the Network. Credit: Clare Nemes Primary Production – Plant growth in most ecosystems forms the base or “primary” component…
2022 LTER Network Response to the Fourth Decadal Review Committee Report
…Review Committee Report Fourth Decadal Review Committee Report (corrected) Fourth Decadal Review Committee Report (original) LTER Self Study in preparation for the fourth decadal review. Third Decadal Review, NSF’s associated…
2023 Year in Review: a year of self reflection and investment in our future
…also designed the LTER Community Calls, a monthly space for discussion on a topic proposed by LTER community members. Our first Community Call, an orientation to the LTER Network, occurred…
A Forest of Sensors
…a competitor’s calls allows her to study whether or not birds avoid other species. Coupling this data with predicted species ranges under climate change should show her where competition is…









