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Program Management
The Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network is a program of the National Science Foundation (NSF), established in 1980, to support research on long-term ecological phenomena in the United States. LTER involves more than 1800 scientists and students investigating ecological processes over long temporal and broad spatial scales in the United States.
The Network promotes synthesis and comparative research across sites and ecosystems and among other related national and international research programs. There are 26 LTER collection sites in the United States (LTER site map).
The mission of the LTER Network:
- Understanding ecological phenomena over long temporal and large spatial scales
- Creating a legacy of well-designed and documented long-term experiments and observations for future generation
- Conducting major synthetic and theoretical efforts
- Providing information for the identification and solution of ecological problems
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Users
The LTER Network offers the broader environmental biology research community, including students and international scientists, the opportunity to use the sites for both long and short-term projects appropriate to individual sites, a group of sites, or the Network as a whole.
Contact Information
Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) - Network Office
UNM Dept of Biology, MSC03 2020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
USA Phone: 505 277-2597
Fax: 505 277-2541
Contact online: Contact Form
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