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The MARS Working Group of the Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences has been charged with development of a coordinated federal research strategy for mitigation of, and adaptation to, global

Estimates of LTER Soil Moisture and Temperature Regimes

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With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the four Land-Margin Ecosystem Research Program sites (Chesapeake Bay, Columbia River Estuary, Tomales Bay, and Waquoit Bay) met November 14

As LTER Network scientists focus on broader-scale spatial phenomena, accurate knowledge of their position on the earth’s surface becomes critical.

Although the formation of soil organic matter has long been a central theme of decomposition research, the short-term nature of most studies has limited knowledge of this process.

An article in the September 1990 issue of Conservation Biology by Keith Bildstein (North Inlet Marsh) and I. Lehr Brisbin, Jr. highlights the LTER Network.

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Judy Meyer organized a workshop attended by approximately 40 scientists to discuss “burning questions in stream ecology and whether the LTER Network offered a series of sites to use in

John Magnuson chaired a meeting of 18 scientists interested in aspects of species invasion (10 LTER, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Idaho National Environmental Research Park, and the NERC in G

The 25 participants in the Modeling Forest-Stream Interactions workshop outlined four main zones of a forested watershed which must be conceptually and quantitatively linked with respect to hydrolo