The handbook for standardized field and laboratory measurements in terrestrial climate change experiments and observational studies (ClimEx)
The handbook for standardized field and laboratory measurements in terrestrial climate change experiments and observational studies (ClimEx)
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DOI：
10.1111/2041-210x.13331
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发表时间：
2020-01-01
影响因子：
6.6
通讯作者：
Zurba, Kamal
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作者：
Halbritter, Aud H.;De Boeck, Hans J.;Zurba, Kamal
气候变化是对生物多样性和生态系统结构、功能和服务的全球性威胁。为了了解潜在的驱动因素和机制，并预测对自然和人类的影响，我们迫切需要更好地了解气候变化对土壤-植物-大气连续体的影响的方向和程度。越来越多的气候变化研究正在为有意义和高质量的归纳和改进对过程的理解创造新的机会。然而，在数据可用性和（或）各项研究的兼容性方面存在重大挑战，影响了数据再利用、综合和升级的机会。其中许多挑战与缺乏衡量关键影响和对策的既定“最佳做法”有关。这限制了我们目前对陆地生态系统中与气候变化有关的复杂过程和机制的理解。为了克服这些挑战，我们收集了来自主要生态研究网络和实验的最佳实践方法，这些方法由来自各个科学学科的115位专家综合而成。我们的手册包含不同目的的响应变量选择指南，66个响应变量的标准化测量协议和数据管理建议。具体而言，我们建议在所有气候变化研究中应收集的最低限度的变量子集，以允许数据的再利用和综合，并就对不同类型的综合和升级至关重要的其他变量提供指导。这一社区努力的目标是促进对标准化方法的重要性的认识和更广泛的应用，以促进数据的再利用、可用性、兼容性和透明度。我们设想改进的研究实践，这将增加对单个研究项目的投资回报，促进二阶研究成果，并为跨科学界的合作创造机会。最终，这将大大提高科学的质量和影响力，这是满足不断变化的世界中的社会需求所必需的。
Climate change is a world-wide threat to biodiversity and ecosystem structure, functioning and services. To understand the underlying drivers and mechanisms, and to predict the consequences for nature and people, we urgently need better understanding of the direction and magnitude of climate change impacts across the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. An increasing number of climate change studies are creating new opportunities for meaningful and high-quality generalizations and improved process understanding. However, significant challenges exist related to data availability and/or compatibility across studies, compromising opportunities for data re-use, synthesis and upscaling. Many of these challenges relate to a lack of an established 'best practice' for measuring key impacts and responses. This restrains our current understanding of complex processes and mechanisms in terrestrial ecosystems related to climate change. To overcome these challenges, we collected best-practice methods emerging from major ecological research networks and experiments, as synthesized by 115 experts from across a wide range of scientific disciplines. Our handbook contains guidance on the selection of response variables for different purposes, protocols for standardized measurements of 66 such response variables and advice on data management. Specifically, we recommend a minimum subset of variables that should be collected in all climate change studies to allow data re-use and synthesis, and give guidance on additional variables critical for different types of synthesis and upscaling. The goal of this community effort is to facilitate awareness of the importance and broader application of standardized methods to promote data re-use, availability, compatibility and transparency. We envision improved research practices that will increase returns on investments in individual research projects, facilitate second-order research outputs and create opportunities for collaboration across scientific communities. Ultimately, this should significantly improve the quality and impact of the science, which is required to fulfil society's needs in a changing world.