The events that shape and reshape ecosystems can be infrequent and often unpredictable. Conditions from past decades can profoundly affect the ways that today’s forests, fields, and oceans function. The…
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Wildfire Ponzi Scheme? The Continental Carbon Exchange
…short-run, fire emits carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Over time, it also strengthens subsequent carbon uptake through plant regrowth. This exchange is like a natural Ponzi scheme – the carbon…
Long-term research reveals causes and consequences of environmental change
…Research (LTER) Network say.”The vulnerability of cool, wet areas to climate change is striking,” says Julia Jones, a lead author in a special issue of the journal BioScience released today…
LTER scientists say humans threatening wetlands’ ability to overcome sea level rise
…surviving the rates of sea level rise we’re seeing today,” if it weren’t for human induced climate change. For more information see Wetlands’ ability to overcome sea level rise threatened…
A framework for managing Alaskan Boreal forests in a warming climate
…challenges today, and to help prepare for a future of rapid change. —Kristen Weiss Miho Morimoto, Glenn Patrick Juday. 2018. Developing Adaptive Approaches to Forest Harvest Management in Boreal Alaska…
Can seagrass meadows mitigate climate change?
…11-year study period, which has already spanned the work of at least 3 graduate students and continues today, the meadow experienced a unique sequence of conditions. In 2015, fourteen years…
Presentation: Sustainability of Salt Marshes: Still a Realistic Goal? (Alber)
Merryl Alber, University of Georgia, NSF Georgia Coastal Ecosystems LTER Site Intertidal marshes—lands between the tides—are ever-changing ecosystems. They’ve kept pace with changes in sea level over millennia, but today’s…
LTER Road Trip: Conservation, Agriculture, and Michigan Farmers
…Landis and I walked between the crop rows at the Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) in Michigan. Breezes ruffled the soybean leaves like waves, but few insects or birds zipped through…
LTER Road Trip: The MegaMe Monsoon Experiment
…Today, pronghorn antelope dart across the dirt road in front of me as I move from MegaMe site to MegaMe site. With their bronze and tan flanks they melt into…
LTER Road Trip: Baltimore’s Waterways are Getting Salty
…of a Baltimore road. Cars whizzed by overhead as Glass-Siegel and Vandiver picked their way through dense grass to the river running swiftly beneath the bridge, the blades swishing against…


