The vision of LTER-Greece is to contribute to the improvement of all citizens’ quality of life via the long-term and large scale research that targets at the conservation, upgrading and sustainable use of ecosystems and their services.
Long-Term Ecosystem Research (LTER) is an essential component of world-wide efforts to better understand ecosystems. Through research and monitoring, LTER seeks to improve our knowledge of the structure and functions of ecosystems and their long-term response to environmental, societal and economic drivers.
The mission of LTER-Greece is to offer the scientific community, the decision makers, and overall the community, reliable scientific information and prognostic understanding of the environmental, ecological and socio-economic processes and procedures; and to compile and update solutions for current and forecasted environmental problems at local, national, European and global level.