The LTER Network Office is pleased to announce that we will be able to fund four site exchange fellowships in 2025. Site exchanges were designed to facilitate between-site comparisons and support the development of cross-site projects. The 2025 awardees exemplify a variety of approaches to such collaboration, including: shared sampling efforts, development and dissemination of… Read more »
The CoRRE Working Group continues to develop new ways to study plant community change across the globe.
A team of Sevilleta LTER researchers are leveraging an existing long-term drought experiment to build critical understanding of dryland ecosystem responses in the aftermath of extreme drought.
An LTER cross site synthesis effort reveals that soil carbon availability determines nitrogen mineralization and nitrification rates across a wide diversity of terrestrial ecosystems.
Nutrient addition increases aboveground plant growth more than it increases belowground plant growth, suggesting that the two are not linked.
New cross-site working group explores untapped evolutionary research potential at LTER sites.
The Community Building working group from the LTER Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee will be facilitating a panel discussion on community engagement with colleagues from across the network
All plants are somehow affected by global change, but their responses are inconsistent between ecosystems, a LTER Synthesis group finds.
The LTER Synchrony Synthesis group links richness synchrony to ecosystem stability in a new study, showing synchrony is a key control on ecosystem functions.
Life in the Chihuahuan Desert endures amid extremes, so the desert’s inhabitants make the most of brief moments to sustain biodiversity.
