Cross site investigation using LTER Data.
In this country invasive species are viewed with more concern than are genetically modified organisms. While this view may change, the scientific issues associated with invasive species strongly overlap and occasionally are identical to those of genetically modified organisms. Vulnerability of native species to the introduction of novel genetic material, including swamping of gene pools,… Read more »
The workshop was held at the H.J. Andrews LTER site near Blue River Oregon on May 21 and 22, 2001 with support from the LTER Network Office. Twenty people attended, including participants from Brazil, Hungary and Korea. The workshop was intended to promote data exchange between the remote sensing community — which has begun to… Read more »
Current plans call for implementing a 5-year manipulative experiment, focused on increasing and decreasing growing season rainfall amounts, across 15 sites in the central US. The rationale for a central US grassland focus includes: The stature of this biome that makes it amenable to such manipulations The presence of several LTER/NEON sites in the region… Read more »
