The Network's Strategic and Implementation Plan for 2011 summarizes the Network's 5-year goals and plans for Research, Education, Communication, Information Management, and Coordination with other Networks. Download document

LTER Network

• The Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network is a collaborative effort involving more than 1800 scientists and students investigating ecological processes over long temporal and broad spatial scales
• The Network promotes synthesis and comparative research across sites and ecosystems and among other related national and international research programs
• The National Science Foundation established the LTER program in 1980 to support research on long-term ecological phenomena in the United States
• The 26 LTER Sites represent diverse ecosystems and research emphases
• The LTER Network Office coordinates communication, network publications, and research-planning activities