An ECN scientist from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology surveying the mountain-top vegetation at our ECN long-term research and monitoring site in the Cairngorms, Scotland. Photo ©UKCEH

ECN was involved in an international study on the responses of European plants to climate warming. We contributed data collected at our high altitude Cairngorms ECN site run by
@ukceh.bsky.social: ecn.ac.uk/news/europea... #ClimateChange #monitoring #research #ecosystems #LTER @ukri.org

Interested in hearing updates from our SPARC working group focused on understanding consequences of plant-microbe interactions over time? Join us tomorrow March 10 at 1 PM ET to hear from our team. Register below! 🌱🦠📈📉

#nsffunded #plant #microbe #synchrony #lter

Crossing Estany Llong in the late afternoon

Heading down to the valley after a long day working in the Contraix Catchment

Antoine is checking the battery and communications of the soil-stream multi-sensor platform in the lower part of the Contraix Catchment

Our soil–stream multi-sensor platform in the lower Contraix Catchment is almost completely buried in snow. We measured about 2 m of snow.

Last week we carried out our monthly biogeochemical sampling across the Sant Nicolau river network (LTER Aigüestortes) and maintained our soil-stream multi-sensor platforms. Spring conditions in the Pyrenees, with more snow than usual for this time of year.

#LTER, #IDAEA_CSIC #CEAB_CSIC #CREAF

This recent paper made use of our automatic weather station #data recorded at Wytham. #long-term #ecosystem #research #LTER

A photo of the Trout Beck stream at Moor House National Nature Reserve in northern England, taken on 5 Jan 2026. The water and rocky surfaces are covered with ice and frost. Photo taken by Elaine Potter, copyright UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

Brrr! 🥶Some icy conditions at Trout Beck, Moor House, earlier this week. Moor House in the North Pennines is one of our ECN long-term environmental #monitoring sites. See: ecn.ac.uk/sites/site/t... #LTER #environment #research #data. [Photo: E. Potter, UKCEH]

New paper out concerning #RemoteSensing and #CoastalDune landscape! 🛰️🌊
We introduce an integrated framework that combines traditional #landscape methodologies with #machinelearning algorithms to quantify coastal dune evolution 🖥️ inside and outside #LTER sites.

doi.org/10.3390/rs17...

Exploring the role of partnerships in enabling public engagement by Long-Term Ecological Research programs This study explores how organizations that conduct scientific research support communication activities, including activities aimed at fostering public engagement. It uses qualitative, thematic analys...

Breakfast-time reading that will bring two interests together: #PublicEngagement and Long-Term Ecological Research #LTER!

"Exploring the role of partnerships in enabling public engagement by Long-Term Ecological Research programmes"
jcom.sissa.it/article/pubi...

#SciComm @ect-uk.bsky.social

Climatic Variability Threatens Population Growth and Persistence of a Declining Grassland Songbird Determining the factors responsible for population change in threatened populations and the degree to which changing climates might put those populations at risk is one of the most pressing roles of ...

New OA paper today! This one is very important to me as is the culmination of over a decade of incredibly intensive field work in KS prairies. I will walk you through the take-homes...
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#Tallgrass #GRSP #LTER #Konza #PopulationEcology #Rain
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Collecting a water sample for chemical analysis.

We had a great meeting today with our wonderful, dedicated terrestrial site managers 👏. We shared updates from our ECN long-term #environmental research and #monitoring sites. It was an opportunity to share successes and challenges and to keep our network going. #research #data #LTER

A black-and-white photograph of the field station at Moor House in the north Pennines, taken in 1955. The building is no longer there.

'Moor House – an outdoor laboratory' describes the wealth of research undertaken over 70 years at Moor House National Nature Reserve. An accompanying file lists the 1000+ publications describing scientific studies of this northern Pennines area. #ecology #environment #research #monitoring #LTER

Thanks for highlighting Moor House and this important long-term ecological study. Moor House, in the North Pennines, has a long history of research, including long-term ECN monitoring, and it's great that ECT is supporting Rob's grazing experiment. 🐑 #ecology #research #vegetation #grazing #LTER

🌳 Il sito #LTER (ricerca ecologica di lungo termine) di Collelongo- Selvapiana raccontato dal suo referente Giorgio Matteucci

youtu.be/7otivP1V0AU?...

#eltercommunity #biodiversità #faggeta #gestioneforestale #conservazione

@elter-ri.eu

📈 What we found:
Even after two decades of measurements, predictions of ecosystem behavior remained highly variable and nonlinear. Short-term datasets often miss emergent and unexpected dynamics that only become evident with long-term observation.

#LTER #Sustainability #EcologicalMonitoring

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Jerry Tallowin on the ECT Interview with ECT’s chair Jerry Tallowin (Rothamsted Research) about the history, purpose, vision and future development of the Ecological Continuity Trust, which took place in February 2019. To le

Listen on Sound Cloud to the #podcast #interview we had with ECT #chair Jerry Tallowin in 2019 where he talks about our vision and purpose bit.ly/3PzDps1

It’s the perfect introduction to us if you want to learn more! #LTER #ClimateChange #Ecology #LTE 🌏

Next in our #MountainSoilBiodiversity session at the #IMC2025 is co-convener @nadinepraeg.bsky.social showing us the soil meta-communities (i.e. the sum of all #microbiota) in mountain and alpine soils in the #LTER area #Matsch in #SouthTyrol.

A bioacoustic sensor monitoring bird calls in the Cairngorms. It is powered by a solar-charged battery and is sited in rough semi-wooded vegetation.

We're using bioacoustic sensors to monitor birds and bats at our long-term monitoring and research site in the Cairngorms, operated by @ukceh.bsky.social: ecn.ac.uk/news/bioacou... 🦅🦇🎤 #monitoring #research #environment #species #LTER

Drought-influenced greenhouse gas fluxes and their emission pathways of the subsaline reed ecosystem of Lake Neusiedl

My doctoral thesis is titled “drought-influenced greenhouse gas fluxes and their emission pathways of the subsaline reed ecosystem of Lake Neusiedl”.
The dissertation is available at:
doi.org/10.25365/the...
#wetland #drought #GHG #methane #ebullition #plant-mediated #reed #Phragmites #pathway #LTER

MIMESIS morning activities, connecting with ourselves and the sea 🌊

Friday morning at the #LTER site of the Eastern Ligurian Sea

#biodiversity #eLTERcommunity #LTERITALY

@elter-ri.eu

National Environmental Monitoring Conference - British Ecological Society The NEMC returns for its second year focusing on: From insight to impact: building the UK environmental monitoring community

We're co-organising the 2nd National Environment Monitoring Conference with @britishecologicalsociety.org & @ukceh.bsky.social. 15 December, Edinburgh: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/national-environment-monitoring-conference-3/ #NEMC2025 #environment #monitoring #observation #data #LTER

Jalene LaMontagne, colleagues win Robert P. McIntosh Award from the Vegetation Section of the Ecological Society of America for research on community synchrony in seed production - UMSL Daily Their study found that synchrony among species is correlated with trait similarity as well as climate.

Jalene LaMontagne, colleagues win 2025 Robert P. McIntosh Award from the Vegetation Section of the Ecological Society of America for research on community synchrony in seed production. #ESA #LTER #MastSeeding blogs.umsl.edu/news/2025/08...

Post that says "SC 03 - Ecological Data Synthesis: A Primer on Essential Methods and Team Science; 9:00-4:00PM"

The 'Ecological Data Synthesis' short course is happening today at #ESA2025. We're talking about #TeamScience and #DataScience. Taught by me, Marty Downs, Greg Maurer, Nick Lyon, and @sokole.bsky.social. #LTER #NEON

Our proposal #TemporalStress has been selected for funding!!

We will investigate how global change impacts rivers across space and time during 4 yrs through the great #IberRios network

Our #LTER dataset of biodiversity & functions will cover 8 yrs (2022-29)!

#PID2024

Una foto scattata durante l'assemblea di Roma che ritrae le e i partecipanti in posa davanti a uno schermo su cui è proiettato il logo LTER-IT

🥳 Avvio della Joint Research Unit di eLTER-IT!

Il 3 e 4 luglio si sono svolte la prima Assemblea Generale e la prima Assemblea dei Responsabili di sito della Joint Research Unit eLTER-IT

Leggi la news: tinyurl.com/9r83a7dt

@elter-ri.eu #LTER #LTERItaly

Maria Grazia Mazzocchi, Stazione Ecologica Anton Dohrn di #Napoli, racconta il lavoro del comitato di coordinamento della Rete #LTERItalia fino alla costituzione della #JRU

#research #eltercommunity #LTER

Three new SPARC Synthesis Groups demonstrate the value of long-term data collected across ecosystems - LTER The LTER Network Office is excited to announce that three Scientific Peers Advancing Research Collaborations (SPARC) proposals were funded this year. The three groups will meet in person at the Nation...

Exciting news, our SPARC proposal has been funded! Our project brings together experts across disciplines and will explore above-belowground coupling/synchrony. Big thanks to @uslter.bsky.social! lternet.edu/stories/thre... 🌱🦠📉🌎

#LTER #SPARC #plants #microbes #SynthesisScience #TeamScience

Exploring Hyytiälä SMEAR II #LTER Site at the #eLTER conference in #Tampere, #Finland

#eLTER2025sc #ecology #monitoring #forest #climatechange

#Zooplankton are a crucial link in the marine food chain. #AI-assisted imaging enables #WHOI scientists to study these tiny animals for insights into the changing ocean ecosystem—and implications for New England's commercial #fisheries 🦐🐟🎣


#WHOIAre #NSFfunded #LTER

TRACE Summer 2025❗

Please join us in welcoming our new summer cohort! We have a mix of interns 🏫, PhD candidates, Postdocs, and PIs.

Stay tuned for introductions, lots of research, and summer fun! 😄
#TRACE #PuertoRico #ElYunque #ForestWarming #Research #STEM #LTER

A map of Italy showing different LTER sites involved in a study on how data from iNaturalist can enhance biodiversity research.

Some of us from the @euracalpenv.bsky.social contributed to a small conference paper on how #iNaturalist data add value to survey biodiversity in #LTER sites, in this case @lter-italy.bsky.social sites.

Please find it here: aca.pensoft.net/article/1517...

#Italy #CitizenScience #LTSER #LTERitaly

World environment Day

⏲️In a world that is running faster and faster, time is our best ally

#LTER Italy is a network of research sites carrying out Long Term Ecological Research

On #WorldEnvironmentDay, discover how our research helps understanding the changes in our ecosystems: lteritalia.it