Research Highlights

Long-term research programs at KBS

KBS hosts long-term experiments focused on agricultural and grassland ecology including the KBS Long-Term Ecological Research—LTER—and Long-Term Agroecosystem Research—LTAR—programs, and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, or GLBRC. Over 50 acres of KBS land have been restored to native prairie, including within the Conservation Lands Experiment. Throughout the property, there are agricultural fields and successional grasslands and forests of varying size and landscape context.

Visiting scientists

KBS provides a wonderful environment for visiting scholars to conduct research, write, or simply interact with a community of scientists whose interests encompass the disciplines of agroecology, evolution, or population, community and ecosystem ecology. There are weekly seminars during the academic year as well as longer visits by eminent researchers during the summer.

A Site Use Request Form must be completed and approved before beginning research.

KBS publications