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Extending our understanding of how individual lakes and lake districts work to larger regional and global scales is a challenge made somewhat easier by a developing relationship between the North T

Most LTER sites or their home institutions participate in NSF's Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program, which offers research experiences in ecology to undergraudate students each su

Participating on the Long-Term Intersite Decomposition Experiment Team (LIDET) project has allowed me to gain valuable experience in a network-wide intercomparison study as a graduate student.

The National Biological Service supports sound management and conservation of our nation’s biological resources, working with others to provide the needed scientific understanding and technologies.

Each year, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) honors with election as AAAS Fellow “those of its members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science are scienti

With an objective of developing regional ecosystem analysis capabilities, scientists from LTER and NASA have been planning a coordinated network for regional measurement of terrestrial vegetation a

While considerable work in population ecology is being conducted at many of the sites that constitute the LTER Network, it has recently been criticized for its apparent lack of population studies <

An invited workshop on soil biodiversity was held at The Natural History Museum in London, August 30- September 1, 1994. British and U.S.

A new map entitled “Ecoregions and Subregions of the United States,” edited by Robert G. Bailey and others (1994), is available from the Ecosystem Management Analysis Center at Fort Collins, CO.

The National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Program was begun by the U. S. Geological Survey in 1991 as a systematic assessment of the quality of the Nation’s water resources.