European Long-Term Ecosystem and Socio-Ecological Research Infrastructure D 10 . 1 LTSER land data

With an overarching goal of addressing global and regional sustainability challenges, Long Term Socio-Ecological Research Platforms (LTSER) aim to conduct place-based research, to collect and synthesize both environmental and socio-economic data, and to involve a broader stakeholder pool to set the research agenda. To date there have been few studies examining 2 Corresponding author, jand@ceh.ac. uk 3 Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Bush Estate, Penicuik, Midlothian, EH26 0QB, UK 4 Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 32000, Israel 5 Environment Agency Austria, Spittelauer Lände 5, 1090 Vienna, Austria 6 Irstea Ur Maly, 5 rue de la Doua, Villeurbanne, France 7 Dead Sea and Arava Science Center, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel 8 CIBIO/InBio, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto. Campus Agrário de Vairão, Vairão, Portugal and CEABN/InBio, Centro de Ecologia Aplicada “Professor Baeta Neves”, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Tapada da Ajuda, 1349-017 Lisboa, Portugal 9 Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, Laboratoire Image Ville Environnement (LIVE), UMR 7362, Zone Atelier Environnementale Urbaine (ZAEU), F-67000, Strasbourg, France 10 Andalusian Center for the Assessment and Monitoring of Global Change (CAESCG) & Department of Biology and Geology, University of Almería, 04120, Almería, Spain 11 Taiwan Agriculture Research Institute, Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, Taichung 41362, Taiwan 12 Laboratory of Remote Sensing and GIS (LAST), Doñana Biological Station, CSIC, Avda. Américo Vespucio 26, Seville, 41092, Spain 13 School of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, University Campus, 73100, Chania, Greece 14 Institute of Social Ecology Vienna, Alpen-Adria-Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria 15 Institute of Landscape Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Štefánikova 3, 81499 Bratislava, Slovakia 16 European Regional Centre for Ecohydrology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Tylna 3, 90-364, Lodz 17 National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry "Marin Dracea", Eroilor Blvd 128, Voluntari, Romania 18 Institute of Biology, University of Latvia, Miera str. 3, Salaspils LV-2169, Latvia 19 Institute of Ecology and Botany, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Alkotmány u. 2-4. , 2163 Vácrátót, Hungary 20 Centre for Hydrology and Informatics, National Technical University of Athens, 5 Iroon Polytechneiou St., 15780, Zografou, Athens 21 Eurac research, Institute for Alpine Environment, Viale Druso 1, 39100 Bolzano/Bozen, Italy 22 Université Rennes 1, UMR CNRS 6553 ECOBIO, Avenue du Général Leclerc, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes, France 23 University of Bucharest Research Center in Systems Ecology and Sustainability, Splaiul Independentei 91-95, 050095, Bucharest, Romania 24 Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes (cE3c), Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal 25 Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Sternwartestr. 15, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria 26 Southeast Environmental Research Center, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, 33199 USA 27 Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Kliniekstraat 25, 1070 Brussels, Belgium