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empathy framework, and therefore to at least some kind of ethical exploration of our
relationship with and obligations to the natural world. Findings from our survey
indicate that the important and “inevitable fusion” (to quote Aldo Leopold) of
ecology and ethics - a pillar of Earth stewardship - might be realized within the
LTER network.
Acknowledgements This research was supported by Long Term Ecological Research Network
subaward grant 976021-874U-2 from the University of New Mexico (NSF Prime award #
0936498). We obtained approval from Oregon State University Institutional Review Board (project
#5827). Omar Barroso helped with Fig. 16.4 . The authors would like to acknowledge support from
the HJ Andrews LTER program, funded by the National Science Foundation's Long-Term
Ecological Research Program (DEB 0823380), as well as LTER colleagues Fred Swanson and
Mary Beth Leigh.
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