ABSTRACT
The Konza Prairie Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program has developed a research information management programme (KPRIMP) that supports long-term studies on the Konza Prairie Research Natural Area (KPRNA). Objectives of the KPRIMP are to (1) assure data integrity (correctness, at all times, of all items in the database), (2) provide security (protection against loss of data), and (3) facilitate use of data by the original investigator(s) as well as by future researchers. The overall objective is to develop a research database that will allow us to address scientific questions ranging from local to global scales.
