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NSF Award(s) DEB-0080382 (View all sites)

Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve (CCESR), established in 1940, was designated a National Natural Landmark by the National Park Service in 1975. In 1977 it was included as an Experimental Ecology Reserve in a proposed national network, and in 1982 it was one of 11 sites in the United States selected by the National Science Foundation for funding of Long Term Ecological Research (LTER).
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Contact Information
Site Contacts
Principal Investigator: David Tilman
Primary Contact: Nancy Larson
Information Mgr: Dan Bahauddin
Education Contact: Susan Barrott
Address:
100 Ecology Building
1987 Upper Buford Circle
St. Paul, MN 55108
Phone: 612-625-5740
Fax: 612-624-6777
Email: larso106@umn.edu
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Site History
Early History of Cedar Creek - Background Events and Early Use and Development (1929-1947) Excerpted from Hodson, A.C., 1985. History of the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve. University of Minnesota Field Biology Program Occasional Papers Number 2.


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Research Topics
Successional dynamics; primary productivity and disturbance patterns; nutrient budgets and cycles; climatic variation and the wetland/upland boundary; plant-herbivore dynamics.
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Institutional Affliations Research Sites
  • University of Minnesota
Site Coordinates
Lat: +45.401
Long. -93.201
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Climate Info.
  High Mean Low
Temperature c 6.68c c
Windspeed m/s m/s m/s
Preciptation NA 801 mm NA
Other Climate Info
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