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 TitlePrincipal InvestigatorTypeAward YearFinal Report
Scaling-Up Productivity Responses to Changes in BiodiversityForest Isbell, 2017
Synthesizing population and community synchrony to understand drivers of ecological stability across LTER sitesLauren Hallett, 2017
Advancing soil organic matter research: Synthesizing multi-scale observations, manipulations & modelsWill Wieder, 2017
A synthesis to identify how metacommunity dynamics mediate community responses to disturbance across the ecosystems represented in the LTER networkEric Sokol2016
Integrating plant community and ecosystem responses to chronic global change driversKimberly J. La Pierre, 2016
Global Patterns in Stream Energy and Nutrient CyclingAdam Wymore, 2016
Establishing High Quality Digital Collections of LTER Educational Resources2012Final Report (PDF)
The Ecosystem Sensitivity to Rainfall Experiment (EcoSeRE): Design and Synthesis2012Final Report (PDF)
Leveraging PASTA and EML-based Workflow Tools for LTER Data Synthesis2012Final Report (PDF)
Managing sensor networks and data: Best practices for LTER2012Final Report (PDF)
Sensitivity of ecosystem properties to winter climate anomalies2012Final Report (PDF)
Veg-DB Phase 2: Developing a cross-site system to improve development and access to synthetic vegetation databases2012Final Report (PDF)
Synthesis of stream ecosystem responses to nutrient enrichment at multiple trophic levels2012Final Report (PDF)
Training Workshop for Site Science Communicators2012Final Report (PDF)
Enhancement of the LTER Controlled Vocabulary to Support Data Synthesis2012Final Report (PDF)
2013 LTER Training Workshop Proposal – Remote Data Acquisition2012Final Report (PDF)
Exploring the Seasonal Synchrony of Catchment Nitrogen Dynamics: The Search for a Unifying Theoretical Framework2012Final Report (PDF)
Training working group: Climate and streamflow seasonal trend analysis at LTER sites2012Final Report (PDF)
Coastal Wetland Ecology and Geomorphology2012Final Report (PDF)
Soil Biogeochemistry: Synthesis of Past Data and Development of Protocols for a New Long-Term, Network-Wide Data Stream2012Final Report (PDF)
Linking aquatic and soil organic matter across ecosystems through characterization of optical properties2012Final Report (PDF)
Identifying Alternative Indicators for the Detection of Abrupt Transitions in Ecosystems: a Consideration of Time Scale and Community Parameters2012Final Report (PDF)
Urban aquatic ecosystems: a synthesis working group proposal2012Final Report (PDF)
Beyond the Numbers: Supporting an increasingly diverse LTER community2012Final Report (PDF)
Training workshop: Software tools and strategies for managing sensor networks2012Final Report (PDF)
Mechanisms of convergence and divergence: understanding the variability of plant community responses to multiple resource manipulations2012Final Report (PDF)
Cross site analysis and synthesis of the role of vegetation, sediment supply, sea level rise and storminess on intertidal coastal geomorphology2012Final Report (PDF)
GeoNIS Implementation with PASTA2012Final Report (PDF)
A guide to successful graduate student socio-ecological research: Insights from the Long Term Ecological Research Network2012Final Report (PDF)
Cross site analysis and synthesis of arts and humanities engagement within LTER2012Final Report (PDF)
Responses of soft sediment coastal ecosystems to sea level rise and coastal squeeze in the LTER Network2012Final Report (PDF)
A synthesis of LTER community data to test metacommunity theory under different ecological conditionsEric Sokol2012Final Report (PDF)
Atmospheric correction to LTER Landsat catalog2012Final Report (PDF)
Development and analysis of a database of Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery to support cross-site research2011Final Report (PDF)
LTER Personnel Database Web Services Development2011
Veg-DB: Developing a cross-site system to improve access to vegetation synthetic databases2011Final Report (PDF)
Tools and training for sensor network establishment and management2011
The influence of precipitation variability on diversity and composition of North American grasslands2011Final Report (PDF)
Acquisition and management of data from remote locations2011Final Report (PDF)
Drupal Environmental Information Management System (DEIMS) workshop: A workshop for new and advanced DEIMS users2011Final Report (PDF)
Integrating Local Knowledge into Long Term Ecological Research – MALS Training and Planning Workshop2011Final Report (PDF)
LTER Metabase Software-as-a-Service development2011
Bi-stability in North American ecosystems: analyzing woody plant cover for temporal stable-state dynamics2011Final Report (PDF)
Defining Checks to Ensure High Quality LTER Data Packages2011
Climate effects on ANPP of saltmarshes of the North American Atlantic coast – a hierarchical model approach2011Final Report (PDF)
Retrieving and using information from web services to improve EML content2011
Synthesizing long-term records and eco-hydrologic modeling to quantify structural legacy effects2011Final Report (PDF)
Land Use Institutions, Land Use Land Cover Change, and the Distribution of Ecosystem Services2011
Quantifying Uncertainty in Wet Atmospheric Deposition2011Final Report (PDF)
SiteDB redesign to accommodate ClimDB/HydroDB and StreamChemDB2011