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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Distribute
Datasets
Making data available
to other researchers is a priority of the FCE-LTER project
because it widens the community of scientists who are
focused on the Everglades or on comparative studies
with similar ecosystems elsewhere in the world. The
FCE-LTER website has served as the primary portal for
distribution of datasets, with total downloads numbering
nearly 1,000. Of these downloads, nearly one-third have
been for biogeochemical and organic geochemical datasets.
Graph of monthly precipitation at Flamingo Ranger
Station
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