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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...

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...

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. ...

The International Long Term Ecological Research Network (ILTER), of which LTER-Europe is a part, is leading the development of the GEO BON Global Network of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Observation Sites. The medium terms aims of this initiative are to pull...

The Global Land Project has formally accepted ILTER as an endorsed network, enabling ILTER to participate more strongly in GLP research programmes. The International LTER network, ILTER, has been accepted as an endorsed network of the G...

The EU's INTERACT research infrastructure project, which includes some ILTER research sites, has recently been highlighted by the EU as a success story. The EU is funding a number of infrastructure projects aiming to build environmental...

Results from a pan-European study of high altitude vegetation responses to climate change Climate change is having a more profound effect on alpine vegetation than at first anticipated, according to a study carried out by an internation...

News of the LTSER workshop that took place in Helsinki in June, co-organised by LTER-Europe and ALTER-Net The workshop 'Long term socio-ecological research: What do we know from science and practice?' was co-organised by LTER-Europe and...

On 2 March 2011 NSF hosted an LTER symposium in Arlington, VA, USA on "Understanding Climate Change Through Long-Term Ecological Research". The presentations are now available to view online The meeting was the tenth annual NSF symposiu...

Recently published research was stimulated originally by the detection of unexpected changes in soil pH in data from the Environmental Change Network, the UK's LTER network A paper published online this week by Environmental Science and...