The International LTER Network is pleased to announce its first global Open Science Meeting to be held from 9-13 October 2016 in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. Registration will be open to all experts involved in LTER, interested researchers and stakeholders. Topical research themes will be addressed in plenary, break-away sessions and workshops. Experience from site-based to global LTER in one conference at a world-class biodiversity destination, and take advantage of ample opportunities for networking and coordination across ecosystems. ILTER will also use the opportunity to engage a range of powerful  international partners of LTER in global change research and policy. Various field trips to South African LTER sites will be organized. Further announcements will follow soon. Remember to diarize the dates.

• Nitrogen impacts on ecosystems structures and functioning.
• Carbon and water cycles under climate change.
• Towards sustainable usage of ecosystem services (local, regional & global).
• Drivers of biodiversity across scales.
• Data integration and interoperability enabling global scale ecosystem research and linking with environemtal monitoring.
• Linking local, regional and global Earth system observations and models .

• Open call working title: Emerging issues and challenges for ecosystem research.

• Welcome evening program.

• All day: plenary and parallel sessions

• The ILTER's partners include GEO-BON/GEOSS, PECS, UNESCO-IHP, GLP and other international

• World cafe on emerging issues.

• Morning: optional short excursion to Kruger National Park research sites.

• Afternoon: parallel sessions.

• Morning: parallel and closing sessions.

• Afternoon: departure.

To be followed by a 2-day ILTER Coordinating Committee closed meeting from 14-15 October 2016.

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