Special feature: measuring components of ecological resilience in long-term ecological datasets

Long-Term Ecological Monitoring

Engineering Resilience versus Ecological Resilience

Ecological science has been shaped largely by the biological sciences. Environmental science, on the other hand, has been shaped largely by the physical sciences and engineering. With the beginning of interdisciplinary efforts between the two fields, some of the fundamental differences between them are generating conflicts caused more by misunderstanding of basic concepts than by any difference...

Ecological Informatics: a Long-Term Ecological Research Perspective

Scientists within the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network have provided leadership in ecological informatics since the inception of LTER in 1980. The success of LTER, where research projects span wide temporal and spatial scales, depends on the quality and longevity of the data collected. Scientists have devised data collection, data entry, data access, QA/QC and archiving strategies f...

Long-term datasets in biodiversity research and monitoring: assessing change in ecological communities through time.

The growing need for baseline data against which efforts to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss can be judged highlights the importance of long-term datasets, some of which are as old as ecology itself. We review methods of evaluating change in biodiversity at the community level using these datasets, and contrast whole-community approaches with those that combine information from different sp...

The US Long Term Ecological Research Program

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