Twenty-eight years of the US-LTER program: Experience, results, and research questions

Long-Term Ecological Research: Between Theory and Application

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 59-74

  Gosz, James R ^a   Waide, Robert B ^b   Magnuson, John J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross site experiments; Cyberinfrastructure; Ecosystem; Education; Information management; International LTER; Legacies; Long term research; National science foundation; Networking; Partnerships; Social ecology; Synthesis; Time and space scales; Transdisciplinary science

Indexed keywords

EID: 79651470976     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8782-9_5     Document Type: Chapter

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