Precision ecology: the modern era of designed experiments in plant ecology

该项目旨在发展精确生态学领域，打造一个设计实验的新时代，在这个新时代，采样是由研究问题和对所研究的生态过程的了解所决定的。 通过开发新的统计方法，将在全球范围内设计新的实验来回答重要的生态问题，包括非生物和生物因素对植物群落随时间和不同空间尺度的影响。 预期成果包括新的方法和工具，这些方法和工具将使未来在植物生态学中进行的实验现代化。 这将提供重大的跨学科的好处，包括新的统计方法，针对生态研究中的科学发现。

This project aims to develop the field of precision ecology, forging a new era of designed experiments where sampling is informed by research questions and what is known about the ecological process being studied. Through the development of novel statistical methods, new experiments globally will be designed to answer important ecological questions including what influence abiotic and biotic factors have on plant communities over time and different spatial scales. Expected outcomes include new methods and tools that will modernise how future experiments will be conducted in plant ecology. This will provide significant transdisciplinary benefits including new statistical methods that target scientific discovery in ecological studies.