Long-term Ecological Research
Introduction Long-Term Ecological Research or LTER network is the longest-lived and largest ecological network in the U.S. This network provides the research platforms, scientific expertise, and lasting datasets that are essential for analyzing and documenting environmental change. The network fuses a multi-disciplinary group of over two thousand graduate students and scientists. The twenty six LTER sites cover diverse ecosystems in the Pacific and Caribbean, which include deserts, lakes, estuaries, oceans, prairies, coral reefs, alpine and Arctic tundra, forests, urban regions, and manufacture of agriculture. In this essay, we will discuss the hypothesis and results of one of the LTER ...
