Ten years later: an LTER synthesis working group leads to discovery and accelerates four careers
The CoRRE Working Group continues to develop new ways to study plant community change across the globe.
From Manhattan to the Arctic Tundra: 3 student’s summer adventure in Alaska
We spent nearly three months at Toolik Field Station studying processes in the Arctic tundra that range from individual fluorescence in leaves to tree growth north of the treeline!
Shrubs Take Over the Prairie: Cascading Changes Reshape Grassland Water Systems
by Dante Capone, PhD Student at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography and the California Current Ecosystems LTER Invasion of woody shrubs into grasslands disrupts the water cycle, with cascading effects on the ecosystem and conservation. A Prairie Transformed: The Puzzle of Vanishing Water In the tallgrass prairie of Kansas’ Konza Prairie LTER, rain filters through… Read more »
2024 LTER Year in Review: Generating Momentum
In 2024, we invested in people, in science, and in our ability to impact others. We hope we will carry this momentum into the next decade.
Why Salamanders? A SSALTER Blog Post
So why salamanders? It’s almost always the first question I get when I tell people about my research, says Eric Lyons in this SSALTER Blog post.
Planted prairie strips are safe for native pollinators
Strips of native prairie planted within agricultural monocrops are not an “ecological trap” for native pollinators, but also do not reduce the runoff of insecticides that may pose a threat.
DataBits: Conventional Commits
Conventional Commits provide a framework for better commit messages using Git, with a set of standards that relay what kind of code changes occur at each step.
LTER at AGU, 2024
The LTER Network has a strong presence at the 2024 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. See all the talks and posters here!
New DataNugget: Do urchins flip out in hot water?
As part of a multi-site Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program, two science teachers, Emily Chittick and Traci Kennedy, from Milwaukee Public Schools, conducted an experiment to see whether warmer water temperatures affected the ability of sea urchins to flip themselves over after being turned upside down. They wrote up this part of their summer… Read more »
From Species Richness to Ecosystem Resilience: a Synthesis Study of Marine Consumer Nutrient Supply
Marine LTER sites come together to synthesize how consumer-mediated nutrient dynamics are changing throughout time and in response to disturbances.
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Ecology: The Science of Resiliency
Boxes and boxes of bees—a Sevilleta LTER dataset highlight
Site Exchange Fellows Announced
LTER Graduate Students and Postdocs Summer Mentoring Community of Practice
Collaboration with Shellfishers: an APEAL Seed Project
Letting art do the work that science cannot: Bonanza Creek’s In a Time of Change program
Request for Synthesis Proposals 2025
Site Exchange Opportunity
How to find soil-dwelling life in “the valley of the dead”
Strengthen Mentoring Skills