Collaborative Research: A Climate Station Network for the UC Natural Reserve System

加州大学伯克利分校和内华达大学沙漠研究所获得赠款，在加州大学自然保护区系统(NRS)范围内安装监测站网络。这一合作加入了两个学科专业知识中心，以补充和扩大各自的使命。NRS站点对生态功能和结构动态的观察和研究有着悠久的历史。UC NRS对这项监测工作的贡献是充当测量站点的长期主机，协助站点识别和部署，并监督站点的持续运行。位于沙漠研究所的NOAA西部地区气候中心(WRCC)在气候观测以及以用户需要和喜欢的形式向用户提供数据方面拥有丰富的经验。沙漠研究所/西部区域气候中心(DRI/WRCC)的贡献是确定特定地点，准备和安装传感平台，建立通信，并提供数据摄取、存档、传播和显示。气候对生物群具有重大而普遍的影响，如果不考虑环境驱动因素的不同作用，就不可能理解观察到的生态系统行为。A)高质量的环境数据和b)关于加州不同地理范围的地点和每个地点长时间动植物丰度趋势的信息相结合，可以改变我们对物理环境与个体物种和生态群落之间的相互作用的理解，因为它们随着时间的推移而演变。如果这两种观测同时进行，并且距离很近，就可以对气候变化与动植物分布之间的关系做出更有力的推断。整个气候观测网络的观测做法和设备的统一性将改变更多研究人员将其生态观测与共享的气候数据联系起来的能力，并探索保护区内和保护区之间在空间和时间尺度上的生态-气候相互作用的全新尺度。

The University of California - Berkeley and the University of Nevada Desert Research Institute are awarded grants to install a network of monitoring stations across the University of California Natural Reserve System (NRS). This collaboration joins two centers of disciplinary expertise to complement and extend their respective missions. The NRS sites have a long history of observations and research on the dynamics of ecological function and structure. The UC NRS contribution to this monitoring effort is to act as long term hosts of the measurement sites, assist in site identification and deployment, and oversee continued operation of the sites. The NOAA Western Regional Climate Center (WRCC) at Desert Research Institute has extensive experience with climate observations, and with supplying data to users in forms they need and prefer. The contribution of the Desert Research Institute / Western Regional Climate Center (DRI/WRCC) is to identify specific locations, prepare and install the sensing platforms, set up communications, and provide for data ingestion, archival, dissemination, and display.Climate is a significant and pervasive influence on biota, and it is not possible to understand observed ecosystem behavior without accounting for the varying role of environmental drivers. The combination of a) high quality environmental data and b) information on the trends in abundance of plants and animals at sites across a geographic range of California, and for long periods of time at each site, can transform our understanding of the interaction between the physical environment and individual species and ecological communities as they evolve in time. Much stronger inferences can be made about relations between variations in climate and distribution of animals and plants if both observations are made simultaneously and in close proximity. Uniformity in observational practices and equipment across the climate observing network will transform the ability of a larger group of researchers to link their ecological observations to the shared climate data and explore entirely new scales of ecology-climate interactions at within-reserve and between-reserve spatial and temporal scales.