@book {JRN52662, title = {Long-Term Trends in Ecological Systems: A Basis for Understanding Responses to Global Change}, year = {2013}, pages = {378}, publisher = {National Technical Information Services}, organization = {National Technical Information Services}, address = {Springfield, Virginia}, abstract = {

The Eco Trends Editorial Committee sorted through vast amounts of historical and ongoing data from 50 ecological sites in the continental United States including Alaska, several islands, and Antarctica to present in a logical format the variables commonly collected.\  This report presents a subset of data and variables from these sites and illustrates through detailed examples the value of comparing long-term data from different ecosystem types. This work provides cross-site comparisons of ecological responses to global change drivers, as well as long-term trends in global change drivers and responses at site and continetal scales.\  Site descriptions and detailed data also are provided in the appendix sections.

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Long-Term Trends in Ecological Systems: A Basis for Understanding Responses to Global Change\  (download PDF - 313 MB)

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Contents

Introduction to Cross-Site Comparisons and History and Organization of the EcoTrends Project\  (8.29 MB)

Cross-Site Comparisons of Ecological Responses to Global Change Drivers\  (21.8 MB)


Long-Term Trends in Global Change Drivers and Responses at Site and Continental Scales\  (197 MB)


Appendices \& Index\  (79 MB)

}, keywords = {atmospheric chemistry, climate change, cross-site comparisons, disturbance, ecological response, ecology, ecosystem, EcoTrends, experimental forests, global change, human demography, human population growth, Long Term Ecological Research (LTER), long-term datasets, precipitation, rangeland, rangeland research stations, surface water chemistry}, url = {/files/bibliography/13-029 Bk.pdf}, author = {Debra C. Peters and C. Laney and Ariel E. Lugo and S.L. Collins and Charles T. Driscoll and Peter M. Groffman and Grove, J. Morgan and A. K. Knapp and T. K. Kratz and Mark D. Ohman and R. B. Waide and Jin Yao} }