NSF Long Term Ecological Research Sites*
~18 sites, “founded” ~ 1980
…through time, site-specific research will generate increasingly valuable data sets, revealing pattern and control at several levels of ecosystem organization.
HJA: How do natural disturbance, land use, and climate change, acting individually or jointly, affect key ecosystem variables at stand and landscape scales?
HFR: …deal with current data and facilitate the development of new data….
* See Long-term ecological research in the U.S., 1991.