Soil Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Lab

GLIDE participants may be categorized as:

GLIDE core sites
GLIDE satellite sites

Please click here for an alphabetical list of GLIDE site managers (including contact information).

Core Sites: These sites have been selected from pre-established international networks and International Long Term Ecological Research (ILTER) cooperators. These sites will fill gaps in our knowledge of decomposition and diversity for certain biomes and latitude.

Country	Site name	Contact
Australia	Macquarie University	Kirsten Prior
Australia	Warra LTER	Dr. Dick Bashford
Brazil	Manaus	Dr. Heraldo Vasconcelos
Brazil	Rubro Negra	Dr. Millor Godoy Sabara
Brazil	Taim Hydrological System-site 7	Dr. David da Motta Marques
Burkina Faso	Bondoukuy	Dr. Dominique Masse
Canada	Inuvik	Dr. Les Kutny
Canada	Rocky Harbour	Dr. Stephen Flemming
Canada	Shawnigan	Dr. Tony Trofymow
Canada	Topley	Dr. Tony Trofymow
Canada	Whitehorse Yukon	Dr. Don White
Colombia	Bogotà	Amanda Varela
Czech Republic	Biosphere Reserve in South Bohemia	Dr. Marcela Kovarova
Czech Republic	Pálava Biosphere Reserve in South Moravia	Dr. Josef Rusek
Germany	Giessen	Dr. Joerg-Alfred Salamon
Germany	Jena	Dr. Winifried Voigt
Kenya	Kakamega Forest	Dr. Mike Swift
Malaysia	Tambunan	Dr. Homathevi Rahman
Namibia	Gobabeb	Dr. Joh Henschel
Poland	Biebrza National Park	Dr. Maria Sterzynska
Russia	Kursk	Dr. Andrei Pokarzhevskij
Sénégal	Souilène	Dr. Alain Brauman
Taiwan	Fu-shan TERN site	Dr. Kuo-chuan Lin
United Kingdom	Cardiff	Dr. Hefin Jones
United Kingdom	Silwood Park	Dr. Mark Bradford
United States	Shortgrass-steppe LTER	Dr. Diana Wall
Venezuela	Caparo Research Station	Dr. Armando Torres Lezama

Satellite Sites: These cooperators have provided their own funding for litterbags, shipping, and taxonomic sorting.

Country	Site name	Contact
Canada	Stavely	Dr. Dan Johnson
Canada	Onefour	Dr. Dan Johnson
China	Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden	Dr. Xiaoming Zou
United States	MacArthur Agro-ecology Research Center	Dr. Patrick Bohlen

Global Litter Invertebrate Decomposition Experiment