American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting (14th- 18th December, 2015)
Session ID#: 8800
Session Description:
USDA/ARS is reorganizing 18 existing benchmark watersheds, experimental ranges, and research farms into a continental-scale Long-Term Agro-ecosystem Research (LTAR) network, including 3 led by land grant universities and/or private foundations. The central question to be addressed by the LTAR network is
How do we sustain or enhance productivity, profitability, and ecosystem services in agro-ecosystems and agricultural landscapes?
However as LTAR moves forward, the focus is on defining and collecting a core set of common measurements over the next 30-50 years so that they can be used to evaluate changes in agricultural sustainability across regional and continental-scales. This session will solicit presentations that illustrate
- the design and utility of LTAR as a network
- progress at LTAR locations
- LTAR network-level research and cross-site experiments, and
- coordination between LTAR and other research networks (Ameriflux, CZO, Fluxnet, LTER, NEON, etc.).
Primary Convener: Mark S Seyfried, US Dept Agr ARS, Boise, ID, United States
Conveners: David C Goodrich, Agricultural Research Service Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States and Mark R Walbridge, USDA ARS, Pendleton, OR, United States
The following Poster Presentations were presented at the 8800 LTAR session of the AGU meeting:
The Platte River – High Plains Aquifer (PR-HPA) Long Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) Network – Data and Technological Resources to Address Current and Emerging Issues in Agroecosystems.
Long-term Agroecosystem Research in the Northern Great Plains.