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Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Sites manage a diverse array of ecological information resulting from researchon ecological succession, disturbance, landscape ecology, elemental cycling, trophic structure, biodiversity, organicmatter and primary productivity. Since its inception in 1980, the LTER Network has evolved from a primarilysite-based research focus to a network and cross-site focus. Coincident with this evolution has been the development ofmetadata standards. Site-specific metadata standards and systems are being integrated through the development ofmetadata exchange standards and the revolution in network information servers.