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Welcome

Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) National Network is a network of cooperative units established to provide research, technical assistance, and education to resource and environmental managers.

These units are named to signify their broad role as providers of research, technical assistance, and education to federal land management, environmental, and research agencies and their potential partners.

Cooperative emphasizes that multiple federal agencies and universities are among the partners in this program. Ecosystem studies involve the biological, physical, social, and cultural sciences needed to address resource issues and interdisciplinary problem solving at multiple scales and in an ecosystem context. Resources encompass natural and cultural resources. Read more »

CESU Network

Each CESU is structured as a working collaboration among federal agencies and universities. CESUs are based at universities and focused on a biogeographic region of the country

CESU regions