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European Long-Term Ecosystem Research Network
Welcome to LTER-Europe
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Long-Term Ecosystem Research (LTER) is an essential component of world wide efforts to better understand ecosystems. This comprises their structure, functions, and response to environmental, societal and economic drivers as well as the development of management options. For the first two decades of its existence LTER built on natural sciences. The ongoing re-design of LTER aims at expanding its scope to the human dimension. Strongly coupled and integrated socio-ecological systems are driven by economic, cultural and environmental forces likewise. Their investigation requires a new generation of socio-economic and ecological research (LTSER) with adequate infrastructure. LTER-Europe is a network of:
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The Zöbelboden LTER Master Site, Austria [Photo by M. Mirtl]
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The project will contribute to the integration and coordination of long-term ecological research and monitoring initiatives at European level, focusing on understanding the status, changes and trends of ecosystems, with an integrated broad-scale and cross-domain (terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems) strategy, combining the efforts of 11 countries and of at least 67 sites belonging to the LTER-Europe network.
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