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Integrated European
Long-Term Ecosystem, critical zone and
socio-ecological Research

Vision

eLTER responds to the challenge of understanding the complex interactions between people and nature and the human impacts on ecosystems over the long term. Through its research infrastructure and transdisciplinary expertise, eLTER enables the development and application of evidence-based solutions for the wellbeing of current and future generations.

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Mission

eLTER facilitates high impact research and catalyses new insights about the compounded impacts of a range of factors. It addresses existing and emerging environmental challenges on a variety of ecosystems and socio-ecological systems such as climate change, biodiversity loss, soil degradation, pollution, and unsustainable resource use.

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Constructing the eLTER Research Infrastructure

eLTER´s development is driven by the needs of the European LTER Community among other users. It capitalises on the site network of LTER-Europe.

Several projects support the implementation of initial services and the physical network design.

eLTER RI was put on the priority list of European Research Infrastructures (ESFRI Roadmap).

We field a variety of tools and services that could be of use to researchers, students and policymakers such as the Dynamic Ecological Information System (DEIMS) that provides information from 1211 sites worldwide.