When Shade Isn’t Enough: Climate Change in the Forest Understory
Once thought to be natural refuges, old-growth forests are warming faster than we imagined.
What is seagrass restoration worth on the blue carbon market?
How much revenue can seagrass restoration generate from carbon credits? It depends, says a new paper from the VCR LTER.
Letting art do the work that science cannot: Bonanza Creek’s In a Time of Change program
The In a Time of Change program at the Bonanza Creek LTER brings together artists and scientists to generate new ways of understanding nature.
How to find soil-dwelling life in “the valley of the dead”
Remote sensing with field validation can accurately predict biocrust abundance in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica.
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.
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 »
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.
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!
Love writing about science? Now accepting applications for our 2024 LTER Graduate Writing Fellows program!
Now accepting applications for the 2024 cohort of LTER Graduate Writing Fellows.
A changing Arctic drives a new generation of research
An experiment at treeline, one on the tundra, one in the Kuparuk. Each has provided researchers with valuable truths about how each Arctic system responds to change.