The LTER Network has grown from a handful of independent sites to a true network with cross-site experiments, synthetic science, coordinated data management, and standard community practices. LTER community members managed a great deal of that growth, with modest financial support from the LTER Network Office in the form of working group funds. The record of past working groups is – in many ways – a record of the focus and priorities of the LTER Network through time.
| Working Group Title | Principal Investigator | Type | Award Year | Final Report | | Scaling-Up Productivity Responses to Changes in Biodiversity | Forest Isbell | Research, Synthesis | 2017 | |
| Synthesizing population and community synchrony to understand drivers of ecological stability across LTER sites | Lauren Hallett | Research, Synthesis | 2017 | |
| Advancing soil organic matter research: Synthesizing multi-scale observations, manipulations & models | Will Wieder | Research, Synthesis | 2017 | |
| A synthesis to identify how metacommunity dynamics mediate community responses to disturbance across the ecosystems represented in the LTER network | Eric Sokol | Synthesis | 2016 | |
| Integrating plant community and ecosystem responses to chronic global change drivers: Toward an explanation of patterns and improved global predictions | Kimberly J. La Pierre | Research, Synthesis | 2016 | |
| Global Patterns in Stream Energy and Nutrient Cycling | Adam Wymore | Research, Synthesis | 2016 | |
| Enhancement of the LTER Controlled Vocabulary to Support Data Synthesis | | IM Product | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| 2013 LTER Training Workshop Proposal – Remote Data Acquisition | | Training | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Exploring the Seasonal Synchrony of Catchment Nitrogen Dynamics: The Search for a Unifying Theoretical Framework | | Synthesis | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Training working group: Climate and streamflow seasonal trend analysis at LTER sites | | Training | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Coastal Wetland Ecology and Geomorphology | | Synthesis | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Soil Biogeochemistry: Synthesis of Past Data and Development of Protocols for a New Long-Term, Network-Wide Data Stream | | Synthesis | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Linking aquatic and soil organic matter across ecosystems through characterization of optical properties | | Synthesis | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Identifying Alternative Indicators for the Detection of Abrupt Transitions in Ecosystems: a Consideration of Time Scale and Community Parameters | | Synthesis | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Urban aquatic ecosystems: a synthesis working group proposal | | Synthesis | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Beyond the Numbers: Supporting an increasingly diverse LTER community | | Synthesis | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Training workshop: Software tools and strategies for managing sensor networks | | Training | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Mechanisms of convergence and divergence: understanding the variability of plant community responses to multiple resource manipulations | | Synthesis | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Cross site analysis and synthesis of the role of vegetation, sediment supply, sea level rise and storminess on intertidal coastal geomorphology | | Post-doctoral | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| GeoNIS Implementation with PASTA | | IM Product | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| A guide to successful graduate student socio-ecological research: Insights from the Long Term Ecological Research Network | | Synthesis | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Cross site analysis and synthesis of arts and humanities engagement within LTER | | Post-doctoral | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Responses of soft sediment coastal ecosystems to sea level rise and coastal squeeze in the LTER Network | | Synthesis | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Atmospheric correction to LTER Landsat catalog | | Post-doctoral | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Establishing High Quality Digital Collections of LTER Educational Resources | | Post-doctoral | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| The Ecosystem Sensitivity to Rainfall Experiment (EcoSeRE): Design and Synthesis | | Synthesis | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Leveraging PASTA and EML-based Workflow Tools for LTER Data Synthesis | | IM Product | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Managing sensor networks and data: Best practices for LTER | | IM Product | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Sensitivity of ecosystem properties to winter climate anomalies | | Synthesis | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Veg-DB Phase 2: Developing a cross-site system to improve development and access to synthetic vegetation databases | | Synthesis | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Synthesis of stream ecosystem responses to nutrient enrichment at multiple trophic levels | | Synthesis | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| A synthesis of LTER community data to test metacommunity theory under different ecological conditions | Eric Sokol | Post-doctoral | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Training Workshop for Site Science Communicators | | Training | 2012 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Integrating Local Knowledge into Long Term Ecological Research – MALS Training and Planning Workshop | | Training | 2011 | Final Report (PDF) |
| LTER Metabase Software-as-a-Service development | | Information Management | 2011 | |
| Bi-stability in North American ecosystems: analyzing woody plant cover for temporal stable-state dynamics | | Synthesis | 2011 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Defining Checks to Ensure High Quality LTER Data Packages | | IM Product | 2011 | |
| Climate effects on ANPP of saltmarshes of the North American Atlantic coast – a hierarchical model approach | | Post-doctoral | 2011 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Retrieving and using information from web services to improve EML content | | Training | 2011 | |
| Synthesizing long-term records and eco-hydrologic modeling to quantify structural legacy effects | | Synthesis | 2011 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Land Use Institutions, Land Use Land Cover Change, and the Distribution of Ecosystem Services | | Synthesis | 2011 | |
| Quantifying Uncertainty in Wet Atmospheric Deposition | | Synthesis | 2011 | Final Report (PDF) |
| SiteDB redesign to accommodate ClimDB/HydroDB and StreamChemDB | | IM Product | 2011 | |
| Data Management for LTER Ecologists Shortcourse – August 14 – 16, 2012 | | Information Management | 2011 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Responses of ecosystem productivity to Critical Climate Periods; understanding the role of fine-scale temporal climate patterns on ecosystem productivity | | Post-doctoral | 2011 | Final Report (PDF) |
| EML Diagnosis and Best Practice Implementation Mentor | | IM Compensation | 2011 | |
| Development and analysis of a database of Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery to support cross-site research | | Post-doctoral | 2011 | Final Report (PDF) |
| LTER Personnel Database Web Services Development | | IM Compensation | 2011 | |
| Veg-DB: Developing a cross-site system to improve access to vegetation synthetic databases | | Synthesis | 2011 | Final Report (PDF) |
| Tools and training for sensor network establishment and management | | Training | 2011 | |
