Contact
Ulf Grandin (coordinator), +46 (0)18-67 31 04
Pernilla Rönnback (secretary), +46 18 673132
LTER Sweden is a network for Swedish research and monitoring stations conducting long term ecological research and monitoring. The network is open to all stations that fulfil the basic requirements set up by LTER Sweden and its mother organisation LTER Europe.
The LTER organisation also includes more extensive LTSER sites (Long Term Socio Ecological Research). LTER Sweden has one LTSER site and 20 LTER sites. LTER Sweden is co-ordinated by Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and Ulf Grandin is co-ordinator. To further enforce Swedish ecosystem research, LTER Sweden cooperates with SITES, and all SITES stations are also members in LTER Sweden.
LTER Sweden is one out of about 20 national networks in belonging to the pan-European organisation LTER Europe. Globally, LTER Europe is organised under the international organisation International LTER (ILTER).
The LTER network is based on individual LTER/LTSER sites forming national LTER networks collected under regional mother organisations, which in turn are collected under the International LTER (ILTER) organisation.
Application form part 1 and part 2
LTER-Sweden was founded in June 2010, and adopted by LTER-Europe and ILTER in August 2010.
LTER-Sweden is based on a number of established and running instrumented sites for ecological research and monitoring.
The Swedish network is built on the bottom-up principle, where individual sites form the basis of the network, and a central secretariat coordinates national activities and contacts with the European and International mother LTER organisations. LTER-Sweden is governed by the member organisations through an annual meeting with one voting member per LTER site. A management board with members from a selection of the sites deals with strategic planning, grant applications and other managemenet issues. The central secretariat will run daily issues and be responsible for e.g. organising the annual meeting, maintaining the web site, updates and contacts with ILTER, LTER Europe, end users and stake holders
Ulf Grandin (chair), Lars Lundin (deputy chair), Pernilla Rönnback (secretary).
Ulf Grandin (coordinator), +46 (0)18-67 31 04
Pernilla Rönnback (secretary), +46 18 673132