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9 March 2016
A video featuring the Montado long-term research site, one of the eLTER project's Transnational Access sites, has been produced by the OPERAs project. The video explains how the cork plantations of Portugal are some of the most biologic...
25 February 2016
The first issue of the eLTER H2020 project e-newsletter, issued 25 February 2016, is available to view online. This first issue of the newsletter features the following content: A welcome message from Michael Mirtl & Herbert Haubold at Envi...
1 February 2016
Dr Mark Frenzel (UFZ, Germany), who is closely involved in developing LTER-Europe, was interviewed recently about how LTER-Europe & EU BON can work together The European Biodiversity Observation Network, EU BON, has signed memoranda...
2 March 2015
LTER-Europe's EnvEurope project picks up an award at Green Week, Brussels The EnvEurope project, which was started by and developed within LTER-Europe, has recently won an award for Best LIFE Environment Project, 2014. EnvEurope, which ...
19 February 2015
The LTER-Europe conference (19-20 February 2015) starts today in Vienna, Austria, hosted by Environment Agency Austria. The meeting is an opportunity for representatives from national Long-Term Ecosystem Research (LTER) networks across Euro...
17 August 2013
LTER-Europe has teamed up with the LIFE+ project EnvEurope for its annual meeting in Rome this week. It should be an important event. The meeting is an opportunity for infrastructure managers and scientific users interested in LTER-Euro...
1 July 2013
News of a magazine article on long-term research "In the era of Big Data, research projects that focus on phenomena that unfold across decades have distinct benefits—and some drawbacks". This article in 'The Scientist' discusses long-te...
2 February 2013
Several members of ILTER - including Martin Forsius of Finnish LTER - have edited a special issue on ecosystem services. Ecosystem services: climate change and policy impacts is a special issue of the journal Current Opinion in Environmental Sustai...
13 January 2013
A book edited by several members of LTER-Europe and ALTER-Net was published recently Almost a decade of research and collaborative effort within ALTER-Net & LTER-Europe recently culminated in a 600-page Springer volume. Long-Term So...
27 December 2012
A paper published at the end of 2012 by a team of ILTER members demonstrates the importance of the International Long Term Ecological Research network in studying and monitoring environmental changes at a global level. ...