Chapter 1 Introduction
Part I. Background and General Overview of the LTER program
Chapter 2 The Origins, Early Aspects, and Development of the Long Term Ecological Research Program
Chapter 3 Long-term Dynamics of the LTER Program: Evolving Definitions and Composition
Chapter 4 Sustaining Long-term Ecological Research: Perspectives from Inside the LTER Program
Part II. An In-depth Perspective on Selected Sites: History, Foundations, and Partnerships
Chapter 5 The Luquillo Experimental Forest: A Neotropical Example of the Interaction between Forest Conservation and Long-term Ecological Research
Chapter 6 Ecological Theory and Practice in Two Arid and Semi-arid Ecosystems: A Tale of Two LTER Sites
Chapter 7 Cold War Origins of Long-term Ecological Research in Alaska
Part III. Experiments in Broadening the Social Significance of LTER
Chapter 8 How LTER Site Communities Can Address Major Environmental Challenges
Chapter 9 Seeing the Invisible Present and Place: From Years to Centuries with Lake Ice from Wisconsin to the Northern Hemisphere
Chapter 10 Evolution of Social-Ecological Research in the LTER Network and the Baltimore Ecosystem Study
Chapter 11 Integration of the Arts and Humanities with Environmental Science in the LTER Network
Part IV. The Importance of Community in the Evolution of a Research Network
Chapter 12 History of Comparative Research and Synthesis in the LTER Network
Chapter 13 A Retrospective of Information Management in the Long Term Ecological Research Program
Chapter 14 Network Level Science, Social-Ecological Research, and the LTER Planning Process
Chapter 15 Evolving Governance in the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network
Chapter 16 Understanding the Fundamental Principles of Ecosystems through a Global Network of Long-term Ecological Research Sites
Index.