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Participants of the ILTER 2008 meeting in Slovakia
 LTER-Spain is accepted as formal ILTER member (CSIC news)
Have a look on the Application Dossier
Welcome to LTER-Spain
- The Long Term Ecological Research (LTER)
Network is a collaborative effort involving scientists, managers and
institutions helping to investigate ecological processes over long
temporal and broad spatial scales.
- The
Network promotes synthesis and comparative research across sites and
ecosystems and among other related national and international research
programs.
- The
LTER network for Spain
is a candidature to be proposed to ILTER (International Long-Term Ecological Research
Network) membership
next summer 2008 in Bratislava.
- LTER Sites represent diverse ecosystems and
research emphases.
- The LTER Network Responsible coordinates
communication, network publications, and research-planning activities.
- LTER-Spain will be integrated into LTER-Europe
recently founded in Balatonfüred, Hungary
on the 15th of June.
LTER-Europe
is an initiative to develop long-term ecosystem research and monitoring
(LTER) capacity in Europe.
LTER is an essential component in efforts to better understand how
ecosystems function and respond to environmental change. Understanding
how species, habitats and landscapes are changing as a result of global
warming, for instance, requires reliable records built up over a long
period of time.
LTER is characterised by being site-based
research and/or monitoring that takes place over a long (10 or more
years) time scale. Generally there is a strong element of repeated
monitoring. Examples include regular measurement of climate variables,
repeat vegetation surveys, bird and butterfly monitoring.
Many countries around the world have some form
of LTER programme or network. The International Long-Term Ecological
Research Network aims to bring together these many networks, which
involve both ecologists and socio-economic researchers, to help inform
solutions to problems which require taking a long view.
Europe
has a growing number of national LTER networks. The LTER-Europe
initiative was begun in 2003, following a meeting in Copenhagen.
It aims to bring together the different national initiatives, so that
they can work together more effectively. A primary objective is to
encourage the development of national networks which are formal members
of ILTER. In this way a degree of commonality can be achieved. Through
the efforts of ALTER-Net,
LTER-Europe was formally established on 15
June 2007.
This was a major development, but there remains much work to be done in
order to establish a truly integrated, operational European network.
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Spanish Long-Term Ecological Research
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