The International Long Term Ecological Research Network: a platform for collaboration

摘要: Many scientists around the world became interested in U.S. Long Term Ecological Research (U.S. LTER) Network's research model during 1990s and began to develop LTER Socio-ecological networks their own countries. These local networks, including Network, were loosely federated 1993 form International (ILTER) a “network of networks.” Although first 10 yr ILTER Network activities largely supported by funds from National Science Foundation, had transformed into robust, self-sustaining entity 2006 following two-year strategic planning process. The goal is improve understanding how pressures such as climate change land use affect global ecosystems order inform solutions current future environmental problems. To fulfill this mission, fosters collaborations among member extend scope across disciplinary boundaries more ILTER's 600+ sites. also has many long-term data sets that are freely available for students, scientists, policymakers all over world. In collection papers, we consider been, will be, leveraged researchers advance ecological socio-ecological systems globe.