Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Hubbard Brook Data Catalog

The Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study is a long-term, collaborative research program focused on improving our understanding of the response of northern forest ecosystems to natural and anthropogenic disturbances. The study is supported by the National Science Foundation's Long Term Ecological Research program and the principal research site is the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, a 7,800-acre field site in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, operated by the USDA Forest Service. The research is extended through comparative studies with other sites in the northeastern U.S. and throughout the world.

The research involves long-term studies of the biological composition, productivity, hydrology, biogeochemistry, and food webs of forest and stream ecosystems. Results of the research are used to test and revise conceptual and quantitative models of ecosystem functioning, to inform policy and management decisions regionally and nationally, and to bring ecological knowledge to a diverse community of students and teachers at levels from K-12 to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.

Text Source: Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study, https://hubbardbrook.org/about-the-study/