…and graduate training, engagement in interdisciplinary and collaborative scholarship, ability to maintain a vigorous extramurally funded research program, and skilled teaching at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Diverse water-related activities…
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Plum Island Ecosystems LTER
…student involvement will increase with the addition of new PIs. PIE will maintain an active outreach program through collaboration with many local and regional NGOs including the Gulf of Maine…
LTER Network News: 2018 June
…15! Poster submissions remain open until June 30. Key Committee Meetings: Sunday September 30 General Meeting September 30-October 4, 2018 Asilomar Conference Grounds, Pacific Grove, CA Join us for an…
Hurricane Disturbances May Increase Resilience in Wet Tropical Forests
…major hurricane impacts. “However, it is still uncertain if these responses will be maintained with increased major hurricane frequency,” says doctoral student Omar Gutiérrez del Arroyo, one of the study’s…
LTER Road Trip: Hemlock Hospice
…and now the New England trees – all the way up to Maine – are falling as well. As they die, the ecosystems change around them. Researcher Audrey Barker Plotkin…
Resilience on the Prairie: Disturbance Effects on Grassland Plant-Pollinator Communities
…vast tallgrass prairies are left. Understanding grassland community dynamics could be a critical part of conserving those that remain. Plant-pollinator relationships are of particular importance in grassland systems because the…
Water is key to tropical forest carbon storage
…abiotic factors affect forest carbon storage, the team collected and analyzed data from sites across the main forest biomes in lowland Neotropics ranging from Mexico to Brazil. At each site…
The Edge of Agriculture: Pests and Crop Configuration
A prairie strip growing in wheat at the KBS LTER Main Cropping Systems Experiment. Credit: Kurt Stepnitz In agricultural landscapes, predatory insects provide an essential ecosystem service — valued at…
News from the NCO: 2017 Autumn
…image galleries. Education and research content has been expanded and updated. Integration between the main web site, image galleries, and intranet will be improved, making it simpler to use gallery…
LTER Road Trip: Rising lakes in an Antarctic desert
…sheet. It’s a wind-battered, frigid desert landscape. Glaciers spill over the mountains bordering the valleys, feeding small streams that flow only in the summertime and lakes that remain frozen year-round….