These ecosystem research sites/platforms support, enhance and promote the inter-disciplinary investigation of long-term biodiversity and ecosystem processes at varying spatial and temporal scales. The long-term perspective helps to determine the impacts of drivers and pressures of environmental change and to investigate ecosystem processes and their response to environmental pressures. Finland is also intentionally stressing socioecological and socioeconomic research components in the national and international LT(S)ER networks.
Research and monitoring themes within national and international LTER networks cover a wide spectrum of ecosystem studies:
LTER Finland is a part of international LTER-networks i.e. being a formal member both in the
LTER Finland (formerly called FinLTSER) was formally accepted as key national-level Research Infrastructure (RI) and included into national RI-roadmap in December 2008.
LTER Finland is closely related to
The environmental RIs are currently developing towards improved European scale coordination. LTER-Europe network is participating in this development through aiming for the European RI roadmap (RM) with