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
Linking phylogenetic history, plant traits, and environmental gradients to understand community organization at local and continental scales , , 2006
Trends in Long Term Ecological Data Working Group , , 2006
Phenology across LTER , , 2006
Characterizing the nature of the LTER network , , 2006
Ecosystem Services from Working Lands: Cross-site LTER Research , , 2006
Exploring the effect of scale-dependent processes on ecological systems using networked sensors , 2006
Status and Trends of ecosystems services: A Cross-Site comparison of LTER Sites , , 2006
Patterns and Consequences of Shrub Encroachment across North America , , 2006
Polyphenols across the LTER: assessing fractions, forms and functions , , 2006
Ecology and Environmental Justice Research across the LTER Network: long-term and multi-scale understandings of past, present and future , , 2006
Grass lands data Integration of aboveground net primary productivity across sites and time , , 2006 Final Report (PDF)
Toward a synthesis of LTER studies of small mammal populations and communities in arid and semiarid ecosystems , , 2006 Final Report (PDF)
The influence of changes in terrestrial plant community structure on aquatic ecosystem function across the LTER network , , 2006 Final Report (PDF)
Catalyzing cross-site comparisons of microbial diversity and function , , 2006 Final Report (PDF)
Collaborative Research on Desertification between the Jornada Basin and Mongolian LTER , , 2006 Final Report (PDF)
Metabolic Theory of Ecology and Stream ecosystems , , 2006 Final Report (PDF)
Effects of N-fixing plants on diversity and species interactions , , 2006 Final Report (PDF)
Workshop to define quality management standards for data completeness in derived data products Wade Sheldon, Donald Henshaw, kramsey , 2006 Final Report (PDF)
The response of watershed nitrogen retention to large-scale climate disturbance across the LTER network. , , 2004
Cross-site Synthesis of Soil Microbial Enzymes in Response to N Deposition , , 2004
Continuation of Fertilization Synthesis , , 2004
Shrub Dynamics: A Cross-Site Examination for Patterns & Consequences , , 2004
Importance of Consumer-driven Nutrient Recycling in Streams Across a Climatic Gradient – San Juan, PR , , 2004 Final Report (PDF)
Decline of Dominant Species Due to Invasive Pests & Pathogens , , 2003
LTER -Based Student Research Symposium to Stimulate Cross-Site Student Lead Collaboration , , 2003
N Deposition to Forested Ecosystems , , 2003
Biogeochemistry of Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) , , 2003
Species Richness in Space and Time , , 2003
Biodiversity of Riparian Ecotones , , 2003
LTER Workshop on Litter Decomposition Synthesis , , 2003
Metapopulation dynamics and Meta Community Structure , , 2003
LTER Education Outreach , 2003
Long-term Effects of Land Use History on Carbon & Water Balance , , 2003 Final Report (PDF)
Disturbance & Variance: Detecting Change in Terrestrial & Aquatic Ecosystems James Rusak (jrusak) , , 2003 Final Report (PDF)
Performing Network-level Synthesis by Quantifying Ecosystem Goods and Services (LTER Synthesis Workshop) Matt Wilson, Daniel Childers 2003 Final Report (PDF)
Synthetic Effort to Characterize the Controls on Nitrogen Transportation through Streams & Rivers Walter Dodds 2003 Final Report (PDF)
Functional Response to Resource Change across LTER Sites (Biodiversity of Riparian Ecotones) Katharine Suding, Judy Li , , 2003 Final Report (PDF)
LTER Extreme Events Working Group Doug Goodin 2003 Final Report (PDF)
A Functional Approach to Predicting Species Response to N Fertilization across LTER Sites , 2002
LINX-2 Workshop , 2002
Geospatial team 2002
Further Development of the Legacies Concept in LTER , 2002
Proposed initiative for cross-site integration of coastal watershed research , 2002
Integration of Research on Biogeochemicalcycles at LTER sites , 2000
Defining the Schoolyard LTER Program: Priorities, Infrastructure, and Communications 2000
LTER-based Tropical Coastal Research Across the Caribbean Basin , 2000
Ecological Network Analysis for Cross Site Comparisons: Developing the Network of Users , 2000 Final Report (PDF)
A Cross-Site Synthesis of Biotic and Abiotic Agents of Decomposition and SOM Dynamics in LTER Sites , 2000 Final Report (PDF)
Integrating LTER Research into Ecosystem Management , 2000
The Long-term Intersite Decomposition Experiment Team (LIDET) , 2000