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- Title
Development, potentials, and challenges of the International Long-Term Ecological Research (ILTER) Network.
- Authors
Eun-Shik Kim
- Abstract
In order to review the development, the potentials, and the challenges of the International Long-Term Ecological Research (ILTER) Network, the necessity for the development of the ILTER Network, the development of ILTER activities in the world, and the body structures of ILTER Network are described. As an example for showing the potentials of ILTER activities, exemplary results of tree growth studies carried out by the author utilizing long-term daily weather data at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire, USA are presented and future potentials are discussed. At this time, as the ILTER Network is situated at a critical point, challenges for the ILTER Network are discussed with regard to its further development. In this review, the author tries to maintain that as the long-term ecological research, whose results can secure comparability in the dimension of time and space, can provide us with a fundamental basis for sound understanding and management of ecosystems, we can publicize the activities and findings from the ILTER Network to the public, on from local to international levels, to continue further efforts around the world for our sustainable future.
- Subjects
HUBBARD Brook Experimental Forest (N.H.); NEW Hampshire; UNITED States; ECOLOGICAL research; RESEARCH natural areas; ECOSYSTEM management; ENVIRONMENTAL management; BIODIVERSITY conservation; MANAGERIAL economics
- Publication
Ecological Research, 2006, Vol 21, Issue 6, p788
- ISSN
0912-3814
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11284-006-0049-1