http://www.ilternet.edu ILTER News. Members of ILTER with contributor rights can add news items here. See the members area for details or contact the site manager using the contact form above daily 1 2007-09-20T13:04:00Z http://www.ilternet.edu/member-networks/southern-africa/south-africa/news/saeon-plans-second-summit-to-map-the-way-forward-1 Following the success of the Summit of 2006, SAEON resolved to hold a similar forum every four years, and is pleased to announce that the second SAEON Summit will take place on 5 and 6 October at Kirstenbosch Conference Centre. No publisher andrew.sier 2010-08-18T08:31:25Z News Item http://www.ilternet.edu/news/vacant-doctoral-student-position-e-research-in The Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, Finland has a vacant position for a doctoral student in a project that studies e-Research collaboration and e-Infrastructure development in the FinLTSER Network. No publisher hkarasti Europe Job Opportunity 2010-08-03T13:32:25Z News Item http://www.ilternet.edu/news/appeal-for-long-term-data-to-explain-snake Newly published data from the UK, France, Italy and Nigeria provides evidence that a number of snake species populations declined synchronously over a four-year period. The research, published in the journal Biology Letters, was led by Dr Chris Reading from the UK's Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in collaboration with colleagues from Italy, France, Nigeria and Australia. No publisher andrew.sier Europe Africa 2010-06-09T12:55:00Z News Item http://www.ilternet.edu/news/freshwater-monitoring-book A new book, Conservation Monitoring in Freshwater Habitats, features chapters by authors involved in several LTER-Europe member networks, including Ricardo Díaz-Delgado and colleagues from the Spanish LTER network and Richard Chadd of the UK's Environmental Change Network. The book focuses on the need to develop clear, site-specific, conservation management goals; something rarely considered in previous publications on freshwater monitoring. No publisher andrew.sier Europe Publication 2010-06-08T13:40:05Z News Item http://www.ilternet.edu/news/special-feature-on-long-term-socio-ecological A Special Feature dedicated to Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research has been published in Revista Chilena de Historia Natural (an open access journal, published by the Sociedad de Biología de Chile). No publisher andrew.sier Central/South America Publication 2010-06-07T14:41:59Z News Item http://www.ilternet.edu/member-networks/europe/spain/news/2010-open-call-for-access-to-icts-rbd-donana A new call is open to present research projects to the Access Programme ICTS- Doñana Scientific Reserve (ICTS-RBD). No publisher andrew.sier Europe Opportunity research 2010-08-18T08:32:20Z News Item http://www.ilternet.edu/news/symposium-discusses-use-of-long-term-socio The use of long-term socio-ecological research (LTSER) sites as a platform to affect conservation and management of the southern temperate forest biome was discussed at a recent symposium in Argentina No publisher andrew.sier East Asia-Pacific Meeting Central/South America Event 2010-02-24T12:39:55Z News Item http://www.ilternet.edu/member-networks/east-asia-pacific/japan/news/jalter-database-metacat-is-available The JaLTER meta-catalogue is available to the public No publisher hshibata 2010-02-24T09:42:49Z News Item http://www.ilternet.edu/news/call-for-participants-alter-net-international Applications are open to attend the 5th ALTER-Net Summer School ■ Theme: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services No publisher andrew.sier 2010-02-08T15:07:28Z News Item http://www.ilternet.edu/news/call-for-participants-international-summer-school International summer school based at a JaLTER site No publisher andrew.sier East Asia-Pacific training Summer school 2010-01-29T10:55:24Z News Item http://www.ilternet.edu/news/vacancy-ecosystem-ecologist-position-at-the The University of North Texas (UNT: www.unt.edu) has embarked on a major, multi-year initiative to hire faculty in priority areas, add professional staff and make infrastructure improvements to expand its scientific research. In this context, UNT seeks a Senior Level Ecosystem Ecologist (rank open, preference full professor) with actively funded research in biogeochemistry or similar area. No publisher andrew.sier North America Opportunity Job Central/South America 2009-12-22T14:04:56Z News Item http://www.ilternet.edu/news/igbp-launches-climate-change-index News of a new index bringing together key indicators of climate change. No publisher andrew.sier 2009-12-21T11:49:48Z News Item http://www.ilternet.edu/news/lter-europe-launches-online-map-of-its-sites A new online interface enables people to explore LTER sites in Europe No publisher andrew.sier Europe 2009-12-01T11:22:38Z News Item http://www.ilternet.edu/news/soils-butterflies-and-beetles-respond-to-changing The first major review of trends in terrestrial ecology at twelve key sites within the UK Environmental Change Network between 1993 and 2007 is published today in the journal Biological Conservation. Soils, vegetation and animal communities all show indications of responses to environmental change over the study period. No publisher andrew.sier 2009-11-06T14:24:55Z News Item http://www.ilternet.edu/news/bulgarian-and-serbian-networks-join-ilter ILTER network continues to grow No publisher andrew.sier 2009-10-06T08:37:59Z News Item