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…have been frozen or waterlogged since the last ice age. Over decadal time scales, this carbon release could overwhelm increased plant carbon uptake. In a warmer world, the boreal forest…

…regional climate indices, biogeochemical proxies for iron limitation revealed increasing frequency of iron limitation at SCMLs in the California Current system. These results are relevant to upwelling systems worldwide.  …

…and many other insights into forest ecosystem function have resulted from sustained measurements of biosphere-atmosphere exchanges at HFR’s Environmental Monitoring Site (EMS) eddy flux tower, which provides the world’s longest…

…multiple scales. Herbivore choices cascade to impact grassland biodiversity via changes in dominance, a mechanism which KNZ LTER researchers found to be consistent with grasslands worldwide. Credit: Barb Van Slyke…

…and cyclone devastated coral across the seascape, yet recovery was more rapid than has been observed anywhere in the world. Moorea Coral Reef LTER researchers have gained critical insights into…

Credit: MCR LTER Reefs worldwide have abruptly and increasingly shifted from coral to seaweed dominated communities. Experiments at MCR LTER revealed that a large disturbance can cause a coral reef…