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451<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em><strong>Mission: </strong>The LTER mission is to create knowledge, inspire solutions, and cultivate learning through inclusive and interdisciplinary long-term ecological research.<br></em></p>
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600Five core research themes</strong> </strong>have been central to LTER Network science since it was established by the U.S. National Science Foundation in 1980. Research in these core areas requires the involvement of many scientific disciplines, over long time spans and broad geographic scales. Data on the core areas are collected to establish and understand the existing conditions in an ecosystem before any experimental manipulation is begun.</p>
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662<p class="wp-block-paragraph" style="font-size:16px"><strong><strong>Movement of Organic&nbsp;Matter</strong>&nbsp;â </strong>An entire ecosystem relies on the recycling of organic matter (and the nutrients it contains), including dead plants, animals, and other organisms. Decomposition of organic matter and its movement through the ecosystem is an important component of the food web.&nbsp;Read LTER research stories related to&nbsp;<a href="https://lternet.edu/research-themes/organic-matter/">organic matter movement</a>.</p>
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750<p class="wp-block-paragraph" style="font-size:16px"><strong>Human-Environment Interactions:</strong>&nbsp;monitor the effects of human-environmental interactions in urban systems, develop appropriate tools (such as GIS) for data collection and analysis of socio-economic and ecosystem data, and develop integrated approaches to linking human and natural systems in an urban ecosystem environment.&nbsp;Read LTER research stories related to&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://lternet.edu/research-themes/human-environment-interactions/">human-environment interactions</a></strong>.</p>
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807<p class="has-white-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph" style="font-size:16px">Developing and maintaining large-scale experiments, which provide starting conditions for process-level studies, help to parameterize and test model, and spur cross-site synthesis</p>
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905<p class="has-text-align-left has-text-color wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#000000"><strong>Each LTER site</strong> involves dozens of researchers, typically including microbial, community, and landscape ecologists, but also hydrologists, geochemists, social scientists, economists,  and even sometimes artists and humanities scholars.</p>
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1186<script id="rocket-preload-links-js-after">
1187(function() {
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1193<script data-minify="1" id="ddl-tabs-scripts-js" src="https://lternet.edu/wp-content/cache/min/1/wp-content/plugins/layouts/resources/js/ddl-tabs-cell-frontend.js?ver=1790055687" data-rocket-defer defer></script>

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1194<script id="underscore-js" src="https://lternet.edu/wp-includes/js/underscore.min.js" data-rocket-defer defer></script>

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1195<script id="suggest-js" src="https://lternet.edu/wp-includes/js/jquery/suggest.min.js" data-rocket-defer defer></script>

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1196<script data-minify="1" id="wptoolset-forms-js" src="https://lternet.edu/wp-content/cache/min/1/wp-content/plugins/cred-frontend-editor/vendor/toolset/toolset-common/toolset-forms/js/main.js?ver=1790055687" data-rocket-defer defer></script>

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1197<script id="wptoolset-field-date-js-extra">
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1201<script data-minify="1" id="wptoolset-field-date-js" src="https://lternet.edu/wp-content/cache/min/1/wp-content/plugins/cred-frontend-editor/vendor/toolset/toolset-common/toolset-forms/js/date.js?ver=1790055687" data-rocket-defer defer></script>

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1202<script data-minify="1" id="lter-js-js" src="https://lternet.edu/wp-content/cache/min/1/wp-content/themes/ndic/library/js/scripts.js?ver=1790055687" data-rocket-defer defer></script>

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1207<script data-name="wpr-wpr-beacon" src='https://lternet.edu/wp-content/plugins/wp-rocket/assets/js/wpr-beacon.min.js' async></script>

1207</body>
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1210
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