Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network Site Boundaries

This is a set of Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site boundaries preserved as a shapefile. Note that for some sites “real” boundaries are included while others–particularly marine sites–use a simpler bounding box method. Each site is listed both with its three-letter abbreviation and its unabbreviated name. World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84) is the coordinate reference system used (EPSG:4326). More information about any of the sites can be found on the LTER Site Profiles page on the LTER Network website (https://lternet.edu/site). This data product was made possible by the contributions of the Information Managers for the LTER sites, each of whom contributed their sites' boundaries. This version of the data includes the following changes from the prior version: - Arctic (ARC) updated - Cedar Creek (CDR) updated - Florida Coastal Everglades (FCE) updated - Harvard Forest (HFR) updated - Konza Prairie (KNZ) updated - McMurdo Dry Valleys (MCM) updated - Moorea Coral Reef (MCR) updated