Changing climate along with altered land use has caused major changes in terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem functioning during the last centuries, with changes in vegetation as a key consequence. To understand the cause and effect of observed terrestrial change, SITES monitors and experimentally examines how landscapes, vegetation and land use develop in production-oriented forest and agricultural lands as well as in mountain or arctic environments.
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Data
Terrestrial data avaliable on the Data Portal
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Forest
Long-term forestry monitoring and manipulation experiments
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Agricultural
Long-term agricultural crop experiments
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Wetlands
Natural and manipulated mire experiments