Investigaciones Ecológicas de Larga Duración - Uruguay

• Webiste for IELD - Uruguay
• ILTER regional network: Central/South America

As the Uruguayan component of the ILTER network, the IELDU network is composed of individual researchers working in several aspects of long-term ecological and environmental research. 

After the first meeting held at Montevideo in 1997, investigators from several institutions discussed the status of the research, and identified the first site. 

The goals of the IELDU network correspond to the general ones of the ILTER network, in that they will:

• Promote and enhance the understanding of long-term ecological phenomena across national and regional boundaries;
• Promote comparative analysis and synthesis across sites;
• Facilitate interaction among participating scientists across disciplines and sites;
• Promote comparability of observations and experiments, integration of research and monitoring, and encourage data exchange;
• Enhance training and education in comparative long-term ecological research and its relevant technologies;
• Contribute to the scientific basis for ecosystem management;
• Facilitate international collaboration among comprehensive, site-based, long-term ecological research programs; and
• Facilitate development of such programs where they currently do not exist.