Luquillo LTER Virtual Site Visit
Welcome to the tropical rain forest of the Luquillo Mountains. Continue below for a tour of our site from a landscape perspective.
Learn more about the LUQ LTER Facilities used to support our field work here.
For more background information visit our website https://luquillo.lter.network/
The field sites we will be visiting on our virtual site visit can be seen in the map on the right:
These sites include:
- Luquillo Forest Dynamics Plot (LFDP)
- Bisley Experimental Watersheds (Q1, Q2, Q3)
- Stream Water Chemistry Sampling Sites
- Flow reduction experiment (StreamFRE)
- Rainforest Connection (RCFx) bioacoustics
- Tropical Response to Altered Climate Experiment (TRACE)
Learn more about the history of the Luquillo LTER and our ongoing research.
Conceptual Framework for the LUQ LTER Program
Figure 1.2. We view global change -- and the resulting altered disturbance regime -- operating through local change, legacies of land use, and disturbance frequency and intensity, as the ultimate drivers of ecosystem change. We hypothesize that such scenarios may include altered ecosystem states that differ from historical ones. Our long-term measurements of biogeochemistry, productivity, and key populations of producers and consumers will allow us to detect critical changes in ecosystem state.
