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NSF Award(s) DEB-9632854 (View all sites)

The Coweeta LTER research program is based in the eastern deciduous forest of the Blue Ridge Physiographic Province of the southern Appalachian Mountains. The LTER program was established in 1980 and is the centerpiece of a long-term cooperation between the University of Georgia and the USDA Forest Service Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and a member of the LTER Network. The Coweeta LTER research program centers on the effects of disturbance and environmental gradients on biogeochemical cycling, and the underlying watershed ecosystem processes that regulate and respond to those cycles. It now represents one of the longest continuous environmental studies of any North American landscape. Our current research on the ecological and socioeconomic dimensions of past, present and future land use in the southern Appalachian Mountains contributes directly to the LTER Goals for the Decade of Synthesis.
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Site Contacts
Principal Investigator: Ted Gragson
Primary Contact: Ted Gragson
Information Mgr: Barrie Collins
Education Contact: Brian Kloeppel
Address:
University of Georgia Institute of Ecology
Athens, GA 30606-2202 USA
Phone: 706.542.5691
Fax: 706.542.6040
Email: barriec@uga.edu
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Site History
The mission of the Research Work Unit (RWU) at Coweeta is to Evaluate, explain, and predict how water, soil, and forest resources respond to management practices, natural disturbances, and the atmospheric environment; and to identify practices that mitigate impacts on these watershed resources. The approach to this mission is to meld theory development, experimental testing, modeling, and applications - usually on a landscape scale - where the watershed is the unit of both hydrologic and ecosystem investigation.


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Research Topics
Long-term dynamics of forest ecosystems including forest disturbance and stress along an environmental gradient; stream ecosystems along an environmental gradient; and the riparian zone as a regulator of terrestrial-aquatic linkages.
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Long. -83.500
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