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The mission of the LTER Network is to facilitate and conduct ecological research through:

Understanding ecological phenomena over long temporal and large spatial scales
Creating a legacy of well-designed and documented long-term experiments and observations for future generations
Conducting major synthetic and theoretical efforts
Providing information for the identification and solution of ecological problems

The LTER Network is committed to long-term ecological research on the following core areas:

Pattern and control of primary production
Spatial and temporal distribution of populations selected to represent trophic structures
Pattern and control of organic matter accumulation and decomposition in surface layers and sediments
Patterns of inorganic inputs and movements of nutrients through soils, groundwater and surface waters
Patterns and frequency of disturbances