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The 2025 NATURA Early-Career Fellowship Programme invites applications from advanced graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and early-career professionals. The programme offers a paid 6 or 15-week opportunity focused on exploring nature-based solution...

“VPDrought” represents a novel approach to disentangling the effects of air dryness and soil drought. It is the first experiment worldwide to investigate the influence of air dryness and soil drought in a mature natural forest. The facility commenced full...

The eLTER Market Place connects researchers looking for data with eLTER Site and Platform Coordinators who can offer a wealth of long-term observation data from their Sites and Platforms. It enables and promotes pan-European and/or habitat-specific resear...

In September 2024, at the 14th European Conference on Ecological Restoration (SERE2024) in Tartu, Estonia, a session titled "The Added Value of Long-term Ecological Research (eLTER) Site Network to Upscale Restoration" was organized by Bruna Paolinelli Re...

In mid-July 2024, eLTER's partner Mark Frenzel from UFZ, Germany participated in a 30-minute interview with representatives from the MAMBO project. The discussion focused on the EU Pollinator Initiative and the development of MAMBO’s six innovative monito...

As a side event of the IUFRO World Congress in Stockholm which took place in June 2024, the Erken Laboratory, which is part of the eLTER network, hosted an excursion, where around 150 IUFRO participants visited the station to learn about environmenta...

Are you focusing on plant phenotyping or envirotyping topics in your research and interested in how you can benefit from research infrastructure services in that area?The EU funded project PHENET and the International Plant Phenotyping Network (IPPN) run ...

The first eLTER Science Conference (23-27 June 2025, Tampere, Finland) will bring together leading experts from various research fields to engage in thorough discussions on both environmental and socio-ecological issues. This approach will offer in-depth ...

The Nature Restoration Law (EU 2024/1991) came into force on 18th August 2024 with the aim to reverse biodiversity loss and contribute to climate mitigation in the EU and globally. To reach overall EU targets, member states must restore at least 30% of ha...

eLTER RI and ILTER researchers discussed recent developments of the RI’s social-ecological research and observation agenda at the PECS-3 Conference last week. Organized by The  Programme on Ecosystem Change and Society, the Resilience Alliance, and N...