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，打造设计性实验的新纪元，在设计实验中，采样由研究问题和正在研究的生态过程的已知情况提供信息。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学问题，包括非生物和生物因素随时间和不同空间尺度对植物群落的影响。预期的结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实验的方式现代化。这将带来重大的跨学科利益，包括以生态研究中的科学发现为目标的新的统计方法。

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.