ILTER 3rd OSM 2024
International Long Term Ecological Research Network 3rd Open Science Meeting
Kunming, Yunnan, China
14-19 October 2024
Hosted by Chinese Ecosystem Research Network
​Changchong Mountain, Kunming, China Photo by Richard Deng
The International Long Term Ecological Research Network 3rd Open Science Meeting to be held in Kunming, China
Due to COVID-19 travel restrictions and other unforeseen disruptions, the meeting has been postponed to 14-19 October 2024.
Soon you will find here more information on our keynote speakers, call for abstracts, online registration, and accommodation.
Announcement
As you know, the ILTER OSM was planned for 12-16 September 2022. Due to the travel restrictions and other unforeseen disruptions, the meeting had been postponed to 2024.
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After consultation with key stakeholders, the new dates of the ILTER OSM have been set to the week of 14 October, 2024.
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The ILTER OSM is an international academic conference and held every three years. It is the gathering of the global Long-Term-Ecosystem-Research community and interested representatives of other fields. For latest information, please visit the events section on the ILTER website.
About ILTER & OSM
The International Long Term Ecological Research Network, ILTER, is a network of networks, encompassing hundreds of research sites located in a wide array of ecosystems that can help understand environmental change across the globe. ILTER's focus is on long-term, site-based research and monitoring.
ILTER’s vision is a world in which science helps prevent and solve environmental and socio-ecological problems. ILTER contributes to solving international ecological and socio-economic problems through question and problem-driven research, with a unique ability to design collaborative, site-based projects, compare data from a global network of sites and detect global trends.
Specifically, the purpose of ILTER is to provide a globally distributed network and infrastructure of long-term research sites for use in the fields of ecosystem, biodiversity, critical zone and socio-ecological research, and to secure highest quality interoperable services in close interaction with related regional and global research infrastructures and networks.
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ILTER organizes an Open Science Meeting (OSM) every three years to foster scientific exchange and community building within and beyond the ILTER networks around the globe.
General Themes
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Sensitivity, mechanisms and adaptation of biodiversity and ecosystem functions to global change.
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Environmental pollution, ecosystem restoration and management.
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Ecological and social ecological resilience against shocks from pandemics to climate change.
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New technologies and infrastructures for ecosystem research and biodiversity.
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Application of ILTER science to environmental issues in society.
Special Sessions
ILTER 3rd Open Science Meeting 14-19 October 2024
Kunming, Yunnan Province, China