Shortgrass Steppe LTER: site review: July 11-13, 1999
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1999-07
Authors
Shortgrass Steppe Long Term Ecological Research (SGS-LTER), author
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The site review agenda will begin formally on Sunday evening, at 6:30 pm, with a dinner for the site review team with the SGS-LTER Principal Investigators. We have planned the first full day in the field at the SGS headquarters, and the second day on campus at Colorado State University. For the agenda we have developed, the field day will focus on an overview of our conceptual framework, and our science. On the second day, we will address some of the other important aspects of the SGS LTER, including our information management, education/outreach, leadership plan, and the institutional relationships for the project. We felt that it was important to plan carefully how we can best present our work to you, but also understand that it is most important to respond to the questions that you have for us, and to be flexible as the days proceed.
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The SGS-LTER research site was established in 1980 by researchers at Colorado State University as part of a network of long-term research sites within the US LTER Network, supported by the National Science Foundation. Scientists within the Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, and Biology Department at CSU, California State Fullerton, USDA Agricultural Research Service, University of Northern Colorado, and the University of Wyoming, among others, have contributed to our understanding of the structure and functions of the shortgrass steppe and other diverse ecosystems across the network while maintaining a common mission and sharing expertise, data and infrastructure.
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grassland ecology
shortgrass steppe
long term ecological research
Central Plains Experimental Range
Pawnee National Grassland