U.S. LTER Network  Arctic Tundra Toolik Lake, Brooks Range, Alaska


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 Institutional affiliations: The Ecosystem Center, Marine Biological Laboratory; Universities of Alaska, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Cincinnati, and Kansas; Clarkson University. 

Principal biome/main communities: Arctic tundra, lakes, streams. Tussock tundra; heath tundra; riverine willows; oligotrophic lakes; headwater streams. 

Research topics: Movement of nutrients from land to stream to lake; changes due to anthropogenic influences; controls of ecological processes by nutrients and by predation. 

Site Coordinates:   68.6, -149.6

Site Principal Investigators


JOHN E. HOBBIE GAIUS R. SHAVER
Marine Biological Laboratory 
The Ecosystems Center 
Woods Hole, MA 02543 
508/548-3705, ext. 473 
jHobbie@LTERnet.edu		 Marine Biological Laboratory 
The Ecosystems Center 
Woods Hole, MA 02543 
508/548-3705, ext. 492 
gShaver@LTERnet.edu
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