The Florida Coastal Everglades Long-Term Ecological Research (FCE-LTER)
project is a collaboration of over 120 researchers, students,
and technical staff. The team studies the ways in which hydrology,
climate, and human activities affect ecosystem patterns in the
estuarine ecotones, or regions where freshwater and saltwater
mix, of the Florida Coastal Everglades. In addition to collecting
data, conducting experiments, and building models, the FCE-LTER
team also distributes data to other scientists, presents research
results at scientific conferences, publishes papers in peer-reviewed
journals, trains graduate students to be professional scientists,
and provides education and outreach to the south Florida community.
We link FCE science with Everglades Restoration to provide reliable, continuous, and growing knowledge transfer from basic ecological theory to the development of more effective environmental management and restoration/rehabilitation programs.
More information about what we do
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Collaborative
Research
The Everglades ecosystem
is highly complex with numerous biotic and abiotic,
or non-living, components. Understanding this unique
environment is not possible without an extensive collaboration
of researchers all working toward the same goal.
2006 FCE All Scientists Meeting Group Photo
Over 120 researchers, students, and technical staff work
on the FCE-LTER project. Most of them live in south
Florida, but many are employees of universities and
research centers elsewhere in the United States.
FCE-LTER scientists also collaborate with researchers
at other U.S. and international LTER sites. Some examples of collaborative efforts include:
- Hosting workshops
- Co-teaching courses with other LTER sites
- Conducting research which involves comparisons among multiple LTER sites
- Contributing data to LTER Network databases to facilitate analysis and synthesis
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