The Hohe Tauern National Park (NPHT) and its region has been conducting specific monitoring programs for research purposes for years, all with links to eLTER. The platform includes a number of measuring facilities, which are all described in specific research sites each, i.e. LTER Hohe Tauern National Park (NPHT), Sonnblick Observatory, Oberes Stubachtal, Mullwitzkees, Venedigerkess and Pasterze. This LTSER platform picks up all possible monitoring acvities within the NPHT region and makes them available for eLTER. The platform is able to carry out and promote natural and social science work.

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Sudurnes Science and Learning Center focuses on bird studies, marine invertebrates, and seashore ecology. The Center cooperates with the Icelandic Marine Research Institute utilizing automated analyses of zooplankton (ZooImage) for taxonomic purposes. Other studies are mainly on aquaculture animals such as the European lobster, arctic char, and cod, where the Center carries out its own projects and/or participates in service programmes using the facilities at the Center. The main focus of The University of Iceland´s Research Centre in Sudurnes is on research and teaching in marine biology and ecotoxicology, emphasizing on postgraduate students. The Southwest Iceland Nature Research Centre collects and stores information and data regarding the nature in the southwest region of Iceland. The main focus has been on ecological research, mainly on bird ecology and benthic invertebrates. The Nature Research Centre takes part in monitoring breeding success in seabirds in Iceland as well as monitoring migratory waders that go through the Sudurnes region. Climatic data are available for the area at The Icelandic Meteorological Office since 1953.