Conservation Activities Niwot Ridge

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Biosphere Reserve Conservation Activities

Niwot Ridge

Overview

General Description

Conservation Activities

Researchers collect data from a climate station on Niwot Ridge in 1953, shortly after establishment of the long-term climate program. Continuous data have been collected at 4 main stations along an altitudinal transect since that time. Photo by John W. Marr.

Text Box: Research and Monitoring

Long term alpine tundra ecological processes
Global climate change effects on alpine ecosystems
Geomorphology

Last updated: 06/27/2005

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