Welcome to ILTER

International Long Term Ecological Research (ILTER) is a 'network of networks'. It is a global network of research sites located in a wide array of ecosystems worldwide that can help understand environmental change across the globe. ILTER has a focus on long-term, site-based research. Most ILTER members are national or regional networks of scientists engaged in long-term, site-based ecological and socioeconomic research (known as LTER or LTSER). Together they are responsible for creating and maintaining a large number of unique long-term datasets.

ILTER can contribute to solving international ecological and socio-economic problems through question and problem-driven research, and has the unique ability to design collaborative, site-based projects, compare data from a global network of sites and detect global trends. ILTER members also have expertise in the collection, management and analysis of long-term environmental data.

Delegates at the ILTER meeting in Slovakia, August 2008