The US Long Term Ecological Research program

BioScience

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-32

  Hobbie, John E ^a   Carpenter, Stephen R ^b   Grimm, Nancy B ^c   Gosz, James R ^d   Seastedt, Timothy R ^e  

^a ECOSYSTEMS CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Long term ecological research; LTER accomplishments; LTER description; LTER history; LTER Network

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037233267     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[0021:TULTER]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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