Site News

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta have enlisted Sevilleta LTER scientists to assist in identifying the ecological relationships of the recent epidemic of Hanta

The Niwot Ridge LTER site has begun winter snowpack and ground-temperature observations as part of baseline studies for a snowpack-alteration experiment.

A Cold Desert Ecosystem

A Long-Term Ecological Research site for the Taylor Valley in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, approximately 100 km west of McMurdo Station,

In 1992, Plum Island Sound in the Acadian biogeographic province, was added to the LMER Network.

Kings Creek is the principal stream draining the Konza Prairie Research Natural Area, and its 1,046-ha drainage basin lies entirely within Konza boundaries.

A Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site for the Taylor Valley in the McMurdo Dry Valleys (MCM).

Testing the relative variance in ecosystem properties over space and time

The Jornada LTER is organized to test a hypothesis that during desertification the dist

Succession, disturbance and system state-change

Fourteen barrier islands form the seaward margin of the Virginia Coast Reserve (VCR).

We are now entering the third year of the Long-Term Decomposition Experiment Team (LIDET), with a total of 28 sites and over 35 investigators.

Denise Gaudreau, Research Associate at the Harvard Forest, passed away in May 1992 from the effects of progressive multiple sclerosis.