News

17 April 2020
At the end of March, 2020, while COVID-19 continued to spread across the globe, more than 100 scientists of the integrated European Long-Term Ecosystem, critical zone and socio-ecological systems Research Infrastructure (eLTER RI) convened virtually to ki...

4 December 2019
Improving knowledge about ecosystem functioning is essential for addressing the crucial challenges of managing limited natural resources in a sustainable manner, to assure long-term human wellbeing on the planet. The Global Ecosystem Research Infrastructu...

15 September 2019
With the approval of two projects totalling 14 million euros for eLTER, the EU is opening another important chapter in the development of a permanent infrastructure for long-term ecosystem, critical zone and socio-ecological research in Europe. This fundi...

17 June 2019
A wide variety of studies using LTER Sites in the Italian network are presented in a special issue of the journal Nature Conservation

12 May 2019
Representatives of eLTER attended the EGU annual conference in Vienna, and gave talks at the popular ENVRI Community booth

16 December 2018
On September 11th, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) presented the 2018 ESFRI Roadmap on Large Scale Research Infrastructures during a half-day conference in Vienna.

25 September 2018
On 25th September, representatives of major Irish institutions in the environmental research and monitoring domain along with an eLTER delegation held an "LTER Ireland" exploratory meeting in Waterford, Ireland.The Irish team had invited John Watkins &...

1 August 2018
Writing in the journal Nature, Markku Kulmala calls for continuous, comprehensive monitoring of interactions between the planet’s surface and atmosphere