eLTER Site Catalogue

These scientific papers are published in eLTER PLUS’s context. They use data from eLTER sites and platforms and demonstrate the huge variety of studies that can benefit from these sources.

Haase, P., Cortés-Guzmán, D., He, F. et al. Successes and failures of conservation actions to halt global river biodiversity loss. Nat. Rev. Biodivers. (2025).

https://doi.org/10.1038/s44358-024-00012-x

Cano-Barbacil C, Sinclair JS, Welti EAR, Haase P. Recovery and Degradation Drive Changes in the Dispersal Capacity of Stream Macroinvertebrate Communities. Glob Chang Biol. (2025) 31(1): e70054.

10.1111/gcb.70054

Thomas Ohnemus et al. Fitness for future: eLTER RI’s representation of climate and land use change. Ecological Indicators, Volume 171 (2025)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113159

Oggioni, A., Silver, M., Tagliolato, P., Karnieli, A. (2025) ReLTER: An R interface for environmental observation in long term ecological research

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102915

Souza, A. T., Abbrent, M., Bumberger, J., Furlan, G., Peterseil, J., & Rebok, T. (2024). eLTER Cyber infrastructure - developing the Research Infrastructure technical backbone [Dataset].

https://b2share.eudat.eu https://doi.org/10.23728/b2share.cf465231eda64634911d49a78cb7bb2d

Pipan, T., & Aljančič, M. (2024). 20 years of LTER Slovenia. Acta Carsologica, 53(2-3), 203–209. https://doi.org/10.3986/ac.v53i2-3.13535

Trevathan-Tackett, S.M. et al. (2024) ‘Climate Effects on Belowground Tea Litter Decomposition Depend on Ecosystem and Organic Matter Types in Global Wetlands’, Environmental Science & Technology, 58(49), pp. 21589–21603.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c02116.

Holzer J.M. et al. (2024). Managing environmental knowledge networks to navigate complexity. Ecology and Society, 29(4).

https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-15493-290404

Welti, E.A.R., et al. 2024 Time series of freshwater macroinvertebrate abundances and site characteristics of European streams and rivers. Sci Data 11

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03445-3

Sexton, A.N., et al. 2024 Inland navigation and land use interact to impact European freshwater biodiversity. Nat Ecol Evol 8

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02414-8

Sanczuk, P., et al. 2024 Unexpected westward range shifts in European forest plants link to nitrogen deposition. Science 386, 193-198.

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado0878

Lia Lechler et al. (2024) Five decades of ecological and meteorological data enhance the mechanistic understanding of global change impacts on the treeline ecotone in the European Alps, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Volume 355

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2024.110126

Lippl, F., et al. 2024 A Benchmark Data Set for Long-Term Monitoring in the eLTER Site Gesäuse-Johnsbachtal

https://doi.org/10.3390/data9050072

Ohnemus, T., et al. 2024 The eLTER research infrastructure: Current design and coverage of environmental and socio-ecological gradients. Environmental and Sustainability Indicators 23

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indic.2024.100456

Bertsch-Hörmann, B., Gaube, V., Halada, L., Rosario, I., and Erb, K.: Assessing the role of stakeholder communication in agricultural adaptation and land-use decision-making, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-20080,

https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-20080

Alam, S.A., et al. 2023 Integrating carbon sequestration and biodiversity impacts in forested ecosystems: Concepts, cases, and policies. Ambio 52

https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01931-3

Green, A. J., et al. 2023 Groundwater abstraction has caused extensive ecological damage to the Doñana World Heritage Site, Spain. Submitted to Wetlands.

https://doi.org/10.20350/digitalCSIC/15316

Forsius, M. et al. 2023 Modelling the regional potential for reaching carbon neutrality in Finland: Sustainable forestry, energy use and biodiversity protection. Ambio 52

https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01860-1

Futter, M. et al. 2023 Leveraging research infrastructure co-location to evaluate constraints on terrestrial carbon cycling in northern European forests. Ambio 52

https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01930-4

Holmberg, M. et al. 2023 Role of land cover in Finland’s greenhouse gas emissions. Ambio

https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-023-01910-8

Koivula, H. et al. 2023 Mobilising Long-Term Natural Environment and Biodiversity Data and Exposing it for Federated, Semantic Queries. BISS 7

https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.7.112221

Gillespie, L. M. et al. 2023 Land inclination controls CO₂ and N₂O fluxes, but not CH₄ uptake, in a temperate upland forest soil. SOIL 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-9-517-2023

Haase, P. et al. 2023 The recovery of European freshwater biodiversity has come to a halt. Nature 620

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06400-1

Soto, I. et al. 2023 The faunal Ponto-Caspianization of central and western European waterways. Biol Invasions 25

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-023-03060-0

Poppe Terán, C. et al. 2023 Rising water-use efficiency in European grasslands is driven by increased primary production. Commun Earth Environ 4

https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00757-x

Germ, M. et al. 2023 Contents of Metals in Sediments and Macrophytes Differed between the Locations in an Alpine Lake Revealing Human Impacts - A Case Study of Lake Bohinj (Slovenia). Water 15

https://doi.org/10.3390/w15071254

Le Hen, G. et al. 2023 Alien species and climate change drive shifts in a riverine fish community and trait compositions over 35 years. Science of The Total Environment 867

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.161486

Baker, N.J. et al. 2023 Seasonal and spatial variation of stream macroinvertebrate taxonomic and functional diversity across three boreal regions. Insect Conservation and Diversity 16/2

https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12623

García-Díaz, D. et al. 2023 PhenoApp. A Google Earth Engine based tool for monitoring phenology. Revista de Teledetección 61

https://doi.org/10.4995/raet.2023.18767

Haubrock, P.J. et al. 2022 Invasion impacts and dynamics of a European-wide introduced species. Global Change Biology 28 (15)

https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16207

Méndez, P.F. et al. 2022 Understanding the governance of sustainability pathways: Hydraulic megaprojects, social-ecological traps, and power in networks of action situations.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01258-0

Templer, P.H. et al. 2022 Atmospheric deposition and precipitation are important predictors of inorganic nitrogen export to streams from forest and grassland watersheds: a large‑scale data synthesis. Biogeochemistry 160

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-022-00951-7

Méndez, P.F. et al. 2022 Disrupting the governance of social-ecological rigidity traps: Can pluralism foster change towards sustainability? Advances in Ecological Research 66

https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.aecr.2022.04.011

Segar, J. et al. 2022 Divergent roles of herbivory in eutrophying forests. Nature Communications 13

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35282-6

Urša, V. et al. 2022 The effects of large-scale forest disturbances on hydrology: an overview with special emphasis on karst aquifer systems. Earth-Science Reviews 235

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104243

Matas-Granados, L. et al. 2022 Long-term monitoring of NDVI changes by remote sensing to assess the vulnerability of threatened plants. Biological Conservation 265

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109428

Yael Teff-Seker, Terhi Rasilo, Jan Dick, David Goldsborough, Daniel E. Orenstein, What does nature feel like? Using embodied walking interviews to discover cultural ecosystem services, Ecosystem Services, Volume 55, 2022, 101425, ISSN 2212-0416,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101425

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041622000213)

Soto, I. et al. 2022 Tracking a killer shrimp: Dikerogammarus villosus invasion dynamics across Europe. Diversity and Distributions

https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13649

Levi, N. et al. 2022 Airborne imaging spectroscopy for assessing land-use effect on soil quality in drylands. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 186

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2022.01.018

Pisek, J. et al. 2022 On the leaf inclination angle distribution as a plant trait for the most abundant broadleaf tree species in Europe. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 323

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.109030

Danielescu, S. et al. 2022 Climate Change Impacts on Hydrological Processes in a South-Eastern European Catchment. Water 14

https://doi.org/10.3390/w14152325

Magagna, B. et al. 2022 InteroperAble Descriptions of Observable Property Terminologies (I-ADOPT) WG Outputs and Recommendations. Research Data Alliance

https://doi.org/10.15497/RDA00071

Hoffrén, R. et al. 2022 Identifying the Factors behind Climate Diversification and Refugial Capacity in Mountain Landscapes: The Key Role of Forests. Remote sensing 14 (7)

https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14071708

Gutierrez Lopez, J. et al. 2022 How tree species, tree size, and topographical location influenced tree transpiration in northern boreal forests during the historic 2018 drought. Global Change Biology 11

https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15601

Holzer, J.M., Orenstein, D.E. Organizational transformation for greater sustainability impact: recent changes in a scientific research infrastructure in Europe. Landsc Ecol 38, 4275–4289 (2023).

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-023-01624-y

Diele, F. et al. 2021 Non-Standard Discrete RothC Models for Soil Carbon Dynamics. Axioms 10/2

https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms10020056

Welti, E.A.R. et al. 2021 Temperature drives variation in flying insect biomass across a German malaise trap network. Insect Coservation and Diversity 15

https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12555

Buchner, D. et al. 2021 Wet grinding of invertebrate bulk samples – a scala-ble and cost-efficient protocol for metabarcoding and metagenomics. Metabarcoding and metagenomics 5

https://doi.org/10.3897/mbmg.5.67533

Baker, N.J. et al. 2021 Multidecadal changes in functional diversity lags behind the recovery of taxonomic diversity. Ecology and Evolution 11

https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8381

Zilioli, M. et al. 2021 Enabling the Reuse of Long-Term Marine Biological Observations in Essential Variables Frameworks Through a Practical Approach. Frontiers in Marine Science 8

https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.645997

Forsius et al. 2021 Developing a spatially explicit modelling and evaluation framework for integrated carbon sequestration and biodiversity conservation: application in southern Finland. Science of the Total Environment 775: 145847

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969721009141?via%3Dihub

Lembrechts, J. J. et al. 2021 Global maps of soil temperature. Global Change Biology 28

https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16060

Magagna, B. et al. 2021 The I-ADOPT Interoberability Framework for FAIRer Data Descriptions of Biodiversity. CEUR Workshop Proceedings

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2107.06547

Baatz, R. et al 2021 Reanalysis in Earth System Science: Toward Terrestrial Ecosystem Reanalysis. Reviews of Geophysics 59/3

https://doi.org/10.1029/2020RG000715

Holmberg, M. et al. 2021 Sources and sinks of greenhouse gases in the landscape: Approach for spatially explicit estimates. Science of The Total Environment 781

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146668

Noy, K. et al. 2021 A long-term spatiotemporal analysis of biocrusts across a diverse arid environment: The case of the Israeli-Egyptian sandfield. Science of The Total Environment 774

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145154

Ravbar, N. 2021 A multi-methodological approach to create improved indicators for the adequate karst water source protection. Ecological Indicators 126

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107693

Richiardi, C. et al. 2021 A Revised Snow Cover Algorithm to Improve Discrimination between Snow and Clouds: A Case Study in Gran Paradiso National Park. Remote Sensing 13

https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13101957

Staude, I.R et al. 2021 Directional turnover towards larger-ranged plants over time and across habitats. Ecology Letters 12

https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13937

Zajicek, P. et al. 2021 Long-term data reveal unimodal responses of ground beetle abundance to precipitation and land use but no changes in taxonomic and functional diversity. Scientific reports 11

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-96910-7

Baker et al. 2020 Recovery from air pollution and subsequent acidification masks the effects of climate change on a freshwater macroinvertebrate community. Science of the Total Environment 758: 143685

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969720372168?via%3Dihub

Lilli et al. 2020 Vision-Based Decision-Making Methodology for Riparian Forest Restoration and Flood Protection Using Nature-Based Solutions. Sustainability 12(8): 3305

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/8/3305

Forsius et al. 2020 Assessing critical load exceedances and ecosystem impacts of anthropogenic nitrogen and sulphur deposition at unmanaged forested catchments in Europe. Science of the Total Environment 753: 141791

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720353201

Kulmala et al. 2020 CarbonSink+ — Accounting for multiple climate feedbacks from forests. Boreal Environment Research 25: 145–159

http://www.borenv.net/BER/archive/pdfs/ber25/ber25-145-159.pdf

Dirnböck et al. 2020 Long- and Short-Term Inorganic Nitrogen Runoff from a Karst Catchment in Austria. Forests 11(10) 1112

https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/11/10/1112/htm

Wohner, C. et al. 2020 Towards interoperable research site documentation – Recommendations for information models and data provision. Ecological Informatics 60

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2020.101158

Pilotto et al. 2020 Meta-analysis of multidecadal biodiversity trends in Europe. Nature Communications 11: 3486

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17171-y

Lilli et al. 2020 Α Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Understand Hydrologic and Geochemical Processes at Koiliaris Critical Zone Observatory. Water 12(9): 2474

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/12/9/2474

External scientific articles

Daniela Cortés-Guzmán, Diana E. Bowler, Peter Haase, Spatial and temporal effects of heat waves on the diversity of European stream invertebrate communities (2024) Science of The Total Environment, Volume 953

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.176229

Ana Luisa Barros, Diogo Raposo, João David Almeida, Hugo Jesus, Maria Alexandra Oliveira, Carlos Rodríguez Fernandes, Darryl I. MacKenzie, Margarida Santos-Reis, An integrated assessment of niche partitioning reveals mechanisms of coexistence between mesocarnivores, Global Ecology and Conservation, Volume 54, 2024

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2024.e03116

Šercer, Saša, 2024, Evolving weather patterns: a 20-year project monitoring perspective, Gozdarski vestnik : slovenska strokovna revija za gozdarstvo [na spletu]. 2024. Vol. 82, no. 6, p. 253–258.

https://dirros.openscience.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=slv&id=20791

Kusch, E., Souza, A. T., Gan, Y.-M., & Andrew, C. (2024). A Yarnball of Frayed Strings - Communication, Impact & Cohesion of European Biodiversity Research Infrastructures (Version 1). Zenodo.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13903242

Nikola Bobchev, Dimitar Berov, Stefania Klayn, Ventzislav Karamfilov, High microplastic pollution in marine sediments associated with urbanised areas along the SW Bulgarian Black Sea coast, Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 209, Part A, 2024,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.117150

Spriņģe, G., Grīne, I., Melece, I. et al. Heavy metal pollution and phytotoxicity of small urban stream sediments. Sustain. Water Resour. Manag. 10, 106 (2024).

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40899-024-01096-1

Ascensão F, Cardoso P, Rebelo R, Boieiro M, Nunes A, Chozas S, do Rosário IT, Príncipe A, Máguas C, Branquinho C, Borges PAV (2024) BASS - Biodiversity Assessments at Small Scales. Research Ideas and Outcomes 10: e138341

https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e138341

Lecarpentier D, Biro T, Endresen D, Golivets M, Grimm V, Islam S, Koivula H, Pleiter D, Rossi T,

Schigel D, Wohner C, Zuquim G, Harrison J (2024) Developing Prototype Digital Twins for biodiversity

conservation and management: achievements, challenges and perspectives. Research Ideas and Outcomes

https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e133474

Katrandzhiev, K. et al. 2022 Whole System Data Integration for Condition Assessments of Climate Change Impacts: An Example in High-Mountain Ecosystems in Rila (Bulgaria). MDPI Diversity 14 (4)

https://doi.org/10.3390/d14040240

Pisek, J. et al. 2021 Retrieval and validation of forest background reflectivity from daily Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) data across European forests. Biogeosciences 18/2

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-621-2021

Djukic, I. et al. 2021 The TeaComposition Initiative: Unleashing the power of international collaboration to understand litter decomposition . SOIL ORGANISMS 93(1)

https://doi.org/10.25674/so93iss1pp73

Kwon, T. et al. 2021 Effects of Climate and Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on Early to Mid-Term Stage Litter Decomposition Across Biomes. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 4

https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2021.678480

Caruso, T. et al. 2020 Population asynchrony alone does not explain stability in species‐rich soil animal assemblages: The stabilizing role of forest age on oribatid mite communities. Journal of Animal Ecology 89/6

https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13203

Kozel, P. et al. 2020 Specialized aquatic subterranean communities are probably most species-rich in the thickest epikarst. Limnologica 81

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.limno.2020.125756

Pipan, T. et al. 2020 Abiotic Community Constraints in Extreme Environments: Epikarst Copepods as a Model System. Diversity 12/7

https://doi.org/10.3390/d12070269

Mammola, S. et al. 2020 Fundamental research questions in subterranean biology. Biological Reviews 95/6

https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12642

Petrocelli, A. et al. 2020 Invasive or not? The case of Grateloupia turuturu (Rhodophyta, Halymeniales) in the Northern Ionian Sea (Mediterranean Sea). Marine pollution bulletin 161

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111748