Kelp forest boot camp
Joey Peters describes the trials and rewards of a long summer sampling at the Santa Barbara Coastal LTER site.
ILTER Nitrogen Initiative 2016 Update
The ILTER Nitrogen Initiative had a very good year in 2016. Hideaki Shibata, who leads the Nitrogen Initiative for ILTER, provided the following update. The Initiative produced many interactive activities, an international training course, publications, and firmed up links to other programs. The leaders of the Initiative truly appreciate the engagement, cooperation, and contributions of… Read more »
Telling the Right Story, for the Right People, at the Right Time
Telling the Right Story, for the Right People, at the Right Time January 8-March 4, 2017 Trying to set priorities for communicating your sites’ work? Or developing your first professional profile as you search for a job? Building a global reputation or breaking into a new area of research? Come join your LTER colleagues for 8… Read more »
LTER Science Update Newsletter | December 2016
In December, the Science Update Newsletter covers: an Ecosphere paper on demystifying governance for ecologists with links to several LTER sites and scientists, a Wetlands paper on the sensitivity of ecosystem productivity to intermittent low temperature events in the Florida Everglades, a study on the relationship of total N, total P and leaf area index… Read more »
Short term trends in long term research?
Alexandra Linz describes how short term sampling can add to long-term research goals at the North Temperate Lakes LTER.
Announcing 2017 Synthesis Working Groups
With more than 36 years of continuous data collection across many biomes, the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network is a rich source of information for testing big-picture concepts about how ecosystems work. Luckily, the Network also brings together a group of scientists with creative ideas about how to wring new insights from diverse data… Read more »
Are We Making Selfish Microbes?
Some bacteria become less cooperative with their plant hosts under long-term nutrient additions, finds new research by Jen Lau, an ecologist at the Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) LTER, and her collaborator Katy Heath at the University of Illinois. “A decade ago, no one was thinking about the idea of rapid evolution—the kind you could see… Read more »
Plants and Nitrogen – a love & hate relationship
SSALTER is off to Scotland once again, where Melanie Bautista highlights nitrogen experiments at an international LTER site.
In the realm of blueberries and moss… radiometry measurements at Kindla Integrated Monitoring site, Sweden
For this SSALTER, Jan Holzer explains the BRACE project, a European long-term research project that uses remote sensing.
Fruška gora LTER site from the perspective of hoverflies, treeclimbers and satellites
By Dušanka Krašić If it wasn’t for this geological bump (the highest peak 549m), the northern part of Serbia would remain devoid of many ecosystem services, much of its biodiversity, life forms, oxygen, historical values and research opportunities. In simple terms, it would be quite boring area. Fruška gora is the first Serbian National park, founded… Read more »
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