Continuing Support for the LTER Network Office

自然生态系统经历着不断的变化，这种变化的后果往往在很长一段时间内逐渐显现出来。25个正在进行的长期生态研究项目收集必要的长期数据，以确定这些后果及其对生态系统服务的影响，例如提供对社会至关重要的清洁水。LTER网络办公室提供信息管理、通信和后勤服务，以推进LTER研究。这个项目将继续提供这些服务一年，同时选出一个新的国家办事处并开始运作。该项目将通过组织多学科会议和提供信息管理服务来推进生态系统生态学领域，以确保公众能够获得LTER数据。未来一年的活动将增加科学界、决策者、资源管理者和公众可获得的生态数据的数量和多样性，并将促进对生态变化的性质和速度的了解。研究人员将组织人员、工具和想法，以促进从地方到全球尺度对生态系统的理解。科学理事会会议将启动导致科学出版物和报告的网络级综合，为广泛的全社区参与三年一次的全体科学家会议奠定基础，并解决对LTER网络的长期稳定和成功至关重要的问题。全体科学家会议的成果将包括与LTER社区以外的项目形成新的合作关系，发展新的LTER科学主题，以及更好地将研究生和早期职业科学家融入LTER社区。继续支持LTER网络信息系统将增加科学界和国家生态观测网等观测网络可获得的生态数据的数量和多样性，以便进行比较和综合。研究人员将通过与其他分布式网络和研究项目的关系，在数据共享、数据标准、连接以及新技术的获取和实施等重要领域发挥领导作用。

Natural ecosystems experience constant change, and the consequences of this change are often revealed gradually over long periods of time. Twenty-five active Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) projects collect the long-term data necessary to identify these consequences and their effects on the ecosystem services, such as provision of clean water, that are critical for society. The LTER Network Office provides information management, communication, and logistic services to advance LTER research. This project will continue these services for one year while a new National Office is selected and becomes operational. The project will advance the field of ecosystem ecology by organizing multidisciplinary meetings and by providing the information management services needed to ensure public access to LTER data. Activities over the coming year will increase the amount and diversity of ecological data available to the scientific community, policy makers, resource managers, and the public, and will facilitate understanding of the nature and pace of ecological change. The researchers will organize people, tools, and ideas to promote understanding of ecological systems from local to global scales. The Science Council meeting will initiate network-level syntheses leading to scientific publications and presentations, lay the groundwork for broad community-wide participation in a triennial All Scientists Meeting, and address issues critical to the long-term stability and success of the LTER Network. Outcomes from the All Scientists Meeting will include the formation of new collaborations with programs outside of the LTER community, the development of new LTER science themes, and better integration of graduate students and early-career scientists into the LTER community. Continued support of the LTER Network Information System will increase the amount and diversity of ecological data available to the scientific community and observation networks such as the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) for comparison and synthesis. The researchers will provide leadership in the important areas of data sharing, data standards, connectivity, and the acquisition and implementation of new technologies through relationships with other distributed networks and research programs.