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  • Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network Site Boundaries
  • Downs, Martha R; Director; Long Term Ecological Research Network Office
    Lyon, Nicholas J; Data Scientist; Long Term Ecological Research Network Office
  • 2024-06-25
  • Downs, M.R. and N.J. Lyon. 2024. Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network Site Boundaries ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/DOI_PLACE_HOLDER (Accessed 2024-12-28).

  • This is a set of Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site boundaries preserved as a shapefile. Note that for some sites “real” boundaries are included while others–particularly marine sites–use a simpler bounding box method. Each site is listed both with its three-letter abbreviation and its unabbreviated name. World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84) is the coordinate reference system used (EPSG:4326). More information about any of the sites can be found on the LTER Site Profiles page on the LTER Network website (https://lternet.edu/site).

    This data product was made possible by the contributions of the Information Managers for the LTER sites, each of whom contributed their sites' boundaries.

  • N: 71.5      S: -78.0      E: 165.5      W: -157.0
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