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    Long-term ecological research in a human-dominated world

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    Date
    2012-04
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    Robertson, G. Philip  Concept link
    Collins, Scott L.  Concept link
    Foster, David R.  Concept link
    Brokaw, Nicholas  Concept link
    Ducklow, Hugh W.  Concept link
    Gragson, Ted L.  Concept link
    Gries, Corinna  Concept link
    Hamilton, Stephen K.  Concept link
    McGuire, A. David  Concept link
    Moore, John C.  Concept link
    Stanley, Emily H.  Concept link
    Waide, Robert B.  Concept link
    Williams, Mark W.  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/5202
    As published
    https://doi.org/10.1525/bio.2012.62.4.6
    DOI
    10.1525/bio.2012.62.4.6
    Keyword
     Coupled natural—human systems; Cyberinfrastructure; Environmental observatories; Environmental education; Socioecological systems 
    Abstract
    The US Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network enters its fourth decade with a distinguished record of achievement in ecological science. The value of long-term observations and experiments has never been more important for testing ecological theory and for addressing today's most difficult environmental challenges. The network's potential for tackling emergent continent-scale questions such as cryosphere loss and landscape change is becoming increasingly apparent on the basis of a capacity to combine long-term observations and experimental results with new observatory-based measurements, to study socioecological systems, to advance the use of environmental cyberinfrastructure, to promote environmental science literacy, and to engage with decisionmakers in framing major directions for research. The long-term context of network science, from understanding the past to forecasting the future, provides a valuable perspective for helping to solve many of the crucial environmental problems facing society today.
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    Author Posting. © American Institute of Biological Sciences, 2012. This article is posted here by permission of American Institute of Biological Sciences for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in BioScience 62 (2012): 342-253, doi:10.1525/bio.2012.62.4.6.
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    BioScience 62 (2012): 342-253
     

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