"This timely and well-done work will be a milestone in LTER research. It generates a sense of anticipation for the progress in understanding the interactions between climate and ecosystem response the LTER program will make during its next 20 years."--American Meteorological Society

• Preface Part I 1: An Introduction to Climate Variability Part II Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response on Different Time-Scales Short Term Climatic Events Short-Term Climatic Events: Introductory Overview 2: Hurricanes Impacts on Temperate and Tropical Forests 3: Drought Impacts on Tree Growth and Mortality of Southern Appalachian Forests 4: Climate Variability in the North Central Region: Characterizing Drought Severity Patterns 5: Climate Forcing at the Arctic LTER Site Short-Term Climatic Events-Synthesis The Quasi-Quintennial Time Scale Introductory Overview 6: An LTER Network Overview and Introduction of El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) climatic signal and response 7: The Climate of the Central Arizona and Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CALPTER) Site and links to ENSO 8: Watershed Hydrological and Chemical Responses to Precipitation Variability in the Luquillo Mountains of Puerto Rico 9: Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response of the Marine Ecosystem in the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP) Region 10: Climate and Hydrologic Variations and Implications for Lake and Stream Ecological Response in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica Synthesis: The Quasi-Quintennial Time Scale Climate Variability and Ecological Response The Inter-Decadal Time Scale Introductory Overview 11: Interdecadal Scale Variability: An Assessment of LTER Climate Data 12: A 200-Year Perspective of Climate Variability and the Response of White Spruce in Interior Alaska 13: Decadal Climate Variation and Coho Salmon Catch 14: Decadal and Century-long Changes in Storminess at LTER Sites 15: Mulit-Decadal Drought Cycles in South-central New Mexico: Patterns and Consequences Decadal-Scale Climate Variability and ecosystem response at LTER Sites Century to Millennial Scale The Century to Millennial Scale Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at LTER Sites 16: Century to Millennial Scale Climate Change and Ecosystem Response in Taylor Valley, Antarctica 17: Millennial-scale Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at the Jornada LTER 18: Millennial and Century Climate Changes in the Colorado Alpine Part III Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at selected LTER Sites Over Multiple Time Scales Cross Time-Scale Climatic Events and Ecosystem Responses 19: Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at the H.J. Andrews Long-Term Ecological Research Site 20: Climate Variability in Tallgrass Prairie at Multiple Time Scales: Konza Prairie Biological Station Part IV 21: Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response-An Overview