Synergies Among Environmental Science Research and Monitoring Networks: A Research Agenda
Synergies Among Environmental Science Research and Monitoring Networks: A Research Agenda
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10.1029/2020ef001631
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2020-12
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近几十年来，许多研究和监测网络提供了记录环境和生态变化的公开数据，但人们对跨网络综合这些信息的努力状况知之甚少。我们召集了一个工作组来评估正在进行的和潜在的跨网络综合研究，并概述未来的机遇和挑战，重点关注美国的研究网络（美国长期生态研究网络，LTER）和监测网络（国家生态观测网络，NEON）。LTER - NEON跨网络研究的协同效应源于LTER测量、实验、模型和观测研究的潜力，这些研究为解释NEON数据提供了背景和机制，并为NEON测量提供了标准化和广泛的规模覆盖，补充了LTER研究。LTER和NEON网络中同位置站点的初始交叉网络合成涉及六个广泛的主题：长期植被变化如何影响碳通量；详细的遥感数据如何揭示植被结构和功能；营养循环的水陆联系；生态系统对土壤生物地球化学和微生物过程的响应；种群和物种对环境变化的响应；扰动，稳定和弹性。这项初步研究为扩展跨网络综合提供了令人兴奋的潜力，该综合涉及区域或大陆尺度上的多个长期生态系统过程。这些潜在的合成可以为更广泛的科学界提供一条途径，超越LTER和NEON，从事跨网络科学。这些例子也适用于美国和全球的许多其他研究和监测网络，并可以指导科学家和研究管理者促进支持资源管理和环境政策的大规模研究。
Many research and monitoring networks in recent decades have provided publicly available data documenting environmental and ecological change, but little is known about the status of efforts to synthesize this information across networks. We convened a working group to assess ongoing and potential cross‐network synthesis research and outline opportunities and challenges for the future, focusing on the US‐based research network (the US Long‐Term Ecological Research network, LTER) and monitoring network (the National Ecological Observatory Network, NEON). LTER‐NEON cross‐network research synergies arise from the potentials for LTER measurements, experiments, models, and observational studies to provide context and mechanisms for interpreting NEON data, and for NEON measurements to provide standardization and broad scale coverage that complement LTER studies. Initial cross‐network syntheses at co‐located sites in the LTER and NEON networks are addressing six broad topics: how long‐term vegetation change influences C fluxes; how detailed remotely sensed data reveal vegetation structure and function; aquatic‐terrestrial connections of nutrient cycling; ecosystem response to soil biogeochemistry and microbial processes; population and species responses to environmental change; and disturbance, stability and resilience. This initial study offers exciting potentials for expanded cross‐network syntheses involving multiple long‐term ecosystem processes at regional or continental scales. These potential syntheses could provide a pathway for the broader scientific community, beyond LTER and NEON, to engage in cross‐network science. These examples also apply to many other research and monitoring networks in the US and globally, and can guide scientists and research administrators in promoting broad‐scale research that supports resource management and environmental policy.