The Luquillo Experimental Forest: A Neotropical Example of the Interaction Between Forest Conservation and Long-Term Ecological Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 119-149
Author(s):  
Ariel E. Lugo
Keyword(s):  
Forest Conservation ◽  
Ecological Research ◽  
Luquillo Experimental Forest ◽  
Long Term Ecological Research

Taking the Long View: Growing Up in the Long-Term Ecological Research Program

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Whendee L. Silver
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Ecological Research ◽  
Tropical Rain Forests ◽  
Luquillo Experimental Forest ◽  
Long Term Ecological Research ◽  
The Tropics

The Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program has shaped me as a scientist by providing a collaborative environment and the opportunity to take a long-term, large-scale perspective in my research. I share this perspective with students by incorporating the principles, questions, and data from such research into my teaching. Working at an LTER site, and one that is based in Puerto Rico, has allowed me to increase the diversity of my laboratory and our graduate program by facilitating the recruitment of women and minority students. Personal experiences with science and data management in the LTER program, particularly the bad experiences, have helped me to improve as a communicator in the broadest sense. Although being a scientist in the LTER program has contributed to my career in many positive ways, it has also presented challenges to my work–life balance. To maintain its leadership role, the LTER program needs to remain an open network welcoming new scientists, new ideas, and thus new potential for discovery. I grew up, professionally speaking, in the LTER program. In 1989 as a new PhD student, I was strongly encouraged (i.e., told in no uncertain terms!) to explore research opportunities in the Luquillo Experimental Forest in Puerto Rico. My mentors had developed a graduate field course in Puerto Rico that I participated in and later helped teach. Puerto Rico was their first venture into the tropics, one that was made easier by the fact that Puerto Rico is part of the United States and provides almost all of the conveniences of home. As one of my professors, Tom Siccama, liked to remark, Puerto Rico was “just like Connecticut, only different!” Puerto Rico was not, however, my first venture into the tropics. I had traveled, studied, and worked in Central and South America and the Pacific since my sophomore year of college and considered myself to be a tropical veteran. I felt at home in tropical rain forests, and had envisioned my PhD research taking place at some remote field site, in a foreign country, far from civilization: just me, my tent, the jungle, and the animals.

scholarly journals Connectivity: insights from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network

Ecosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Iwaniec ◽  
Michael Gooseff ◽  
Katharine N. Suding ◽  
David Samuel Johnson ◽  
Daniel C. Reed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Network ◽  
Ecological Research ◽  
Long Term Ecological Research ◽  
The U.S

scholarly journals Patterns and trends of organic matter processing and transport: Insights from the US Long-Term Ecological Research network

2021 ◽  
pp. 100025
Author(s):  
Tamara K. Harms ◽  
Peter M. Groffman ◽  
Lihini Aluwihare ◽  
Chris Craft ◽  
William R Wieder ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Ecological Research ◽  
The Us ◽  
Long Term Ecological Research ◽  
Organic Matter Processing

Long-term ecological research in springs of the Italian Alps: six years of standardised sampling

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 907-911 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Cantonati ◽  
Ermanno Bertuzzi ◽  
Reinhard Gerecke ◽  
Karin Ortler ◽  
Daniel Spitale
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Research ◽  
Italian Alps ◽  
Long Term Ecological Research

scholarly journals The challenges of long-term ecological research in springs in the northern and southern Alps: indicator groups, habitat diversity, and medium-term change

2011 ◽  
Vol 70 (1s) ◽  
pp. 168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reinhard GERECKE ◽  
Marco CANTONATI ◽  
Daniel SPITALE ◽  
Elisabeth STUR ◽  
Sofia WIEDENBRUG
Keyword(s):  
Habitat Diversity ◽  
Southern Alps ◽  
Ecological Research ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
Term Change ◽  
Long Term Ecological Research

scholarly journals What Happens in an Estuary Doesn't Stay There: Patterns of Biotic Connectivity Resulting from Long Term Ecological Research

Oceanography ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 168-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha Mather ◽  
John Finn ◽  
Cristina Kennedy ◽  
Linda Deegan ◽  
Joseph Smith
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Research ◽  
Long Term Ecological Research

scholarly journals The Palmer LTER: A Long-Term Ecological Research Program at Palmer Station, Antarctica

Oceanography ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Smith ◽  
Karen Baker ◽  
William Fraser ◽  
Eileen Hofmann ◽  
David Karl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
Ecological Research ◽  
Long Term Ecological Research ◽  
Palmer Station ◽  
Ecological Research Program
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