In April 1995, Jim Gosz, Jerry Franldin (retiring LTER Chair and ILTER Steering Committee Chair), John Vande Castle (LTER Network Manager), and Rudolf Nottrott (LTER Data Manager) attended the ILTER Southeast Asia organizational meetings in Taipei, Taiwan, which were designed to develop linkages between the U.S. LTER Program and existing or planned LTER-like sites in Southeast Asia.
Representatives from Taiwan, Mongolia, Japan, Korea, Indonesia and Australia participated. Other interested countries unable to attend included Malaysia, the Peoples’ Republic of China, and the Philippines. Current LTER-like activity described ranged from the PRC, with numerous sites already undertaking research, to Taiwan with five sites to Korea and Mongolia, who ate interested in initiating LTER research. Projects of interest range from classical ecosystem dynamics to human impact research to individual systematic studies. Many researchers—particularly those from Indonesia, Japan, and Mongolia—focus on biodiversity studies.
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