Niwot LTER Data Policy The following acknowledgment should accompany any publication or citation of these data: Logistical support and/or data were provided by the NSF-supported Niwot Ridge (NWT) Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project and the University of Colorado (CU) Mountain Research Station (MRS). The user of NWT LTER data agrees to provide proper acknowledgment with each usage of the data. Citation of the name(s) of the investigator(s) responsible for the data set, in addition to the generic statement above, constitutes proper acknowledgment. Author(s) (including NWT investigators) of published material that makes use of previously unpublished NWT data agree to provide the NWT data manager with a PDF of that material as soon as it becomes available. The user of NWT data agrees not to resell or redistribute shared data. Disclaimer The NSF-supported NWT LTER project shall not be held liable for improper or incorrect use of the data described and/or contained herein, nor assumes liability for misuse, manipulation or distribution of the data. These data and related graphics (i.e. GIF or JPG format files) are not legal documents and are not intended to be used as such. The information contained in these data is dynamic and may change over time. The data are not better than the original sources from which they were derived. The user of these data should be aware that, while efforts have been taken to ensure that these data are of the highest quality, there is no guarantee of perfection for the data contained herein and the possibility of errors exists. It is the responsibility of the data user to use the data appropriately and in a manner consistent with the limitations of geospatial data in general and these data in particular. Users assume responsibility to determine the usability of the dataset, as well as dataset resolution and accuracy, for their purposes. It is not recommended that the data be used at a scale larger than the source scale. The related graphics are intended to aid the data user in acquiring relevant data; it is not appropriate to use the related graphics as data. NWT LTER gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of these data. It is strongly recommended that these data be directly acquired from the NWT LTER server and not indirectly through other sources that may have changed the data in some way. Although these data have been processed successfully on computer systems at CU, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the utility of the data on other systems for general or scientific purposes, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. This disclaimer applies both to individual use of the data and aggregate use with other data. Data Credit U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Denver Regional Council of Governments (DRCOG), Bohannan Huston Inc. (BHI), Boulder Creek Critical Zone Observatory (CZO), the University of Colorado, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) and Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project.
