Mirtl Michael

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    Building a global ecosystem research infrastructure to address global grand challenges for macrosystem ecology
    (American Geophysical Union, 2022-04-25) Loescher, Henry W. ; Vargas, Rodrigo ; Mirtl, Michael ; Morris, Beryl ; Pauw, Johan C. ; Yu, Xiubo ; Kutsch, Werner ; Mabee, Paula M. ; Tang, Jianwu ; Ruddell, Benjamin L. ; Pulsifer, Peter L. ; Bäck, Jaana K. ; Zacharias, Steffen ; Grant, Mark ; Feig, Gregor ; Zhang, Leiming ; Waldmann, Christoph ; Genazzio, Melissa A.
    The development of several large-, “continental”-scale ecosystem research infrastructures over recent decades has provided a unique opportunity in the history of ecological science. The Global Ecosystem Research Infrastructure (GERI) is an integrated network of analogous, but independent, site-based ecosystem research infrastructures (ERI) dedicated to better understand the function and change of indicator ecosystems across global biomes. Bringing together these ERIs, harmonizing their respective data and reducing uncertainties enables broader cross-continental ecological research. It will also enhance the research community capabilities to address current and anticipate future global scale ecological challenges. Moreover, increasing the international capabilities of these ERIs goes beyond their original design intent, and is an unexpected added value of these large national investments. Here, we identify specific global grand challenge areas and research trends to advance the ecological frontiers across continents that can be addressed through the federation of these cross-continental-scale ERIs.
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    Steering operational synergies in terrestrial observation networks : opportunity for advancing Earth system dynamics modelling
    (Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union, 2018-05-23) Baatz, Roland ; Sullivan, Pamela L. ; Li, Li ; Weintraub, Samantha R. ; Loescher, Henry W. ; Mirtl, Michael ; Groffman, Peter M. ; Wall, Diana H. ; Young, Michael ; White, Tim ; Wen, Hang ; Zacharias, Steffen ; Kühn, Ingolf ; Tang, Jianwu ; Gaillardet, Jerome ; Braud, Isabelle ; Flores, Alejandro N. ; Kumar, Praveen ; Lin, Henry ; Ghezzehei, Teamrat ; Jones, Julia ; Gholz, Henry L. ; Vereecken, Harry ; Van Looy, Kris
    Advancing our understanding of Earth system dynamics (ESD) depends on the development of models and other analytical tools that apply physical, biological, and chemical data. This ambition to increase understanding and develop models of ESD based on site observations was the stimulus for creating the networks of Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER), Critical Zone Observatories (CZOs), and others. We organized a survey, the results of which identified pressing gaps in data availability from these networks, in particular for the future development and evaluation of models that represent ESD processes, and provide insights for improvement in both data collection and model integration. From this survey overview of data applications in the context of LTER and CZO research, we identified three challenges: (1) widen application of terrestrial observation network data in Earth system modelling, (2) develop integrated Earth system models that incorporate process representation and data of multiple disciplines, and (3) identify complementarity in measured variables and spatial extent, and promoting synergies in the existing observational networks. These challenges lead to perspectives and recommendations for an improved dialogue between the observation networks and the ESD modelling community, including co-location of sites in the existing networks and further formalizing these recommendations among these communities. Developing these synergies will enable cross-site and cross-network comparison and synthesis studies, which will help produce insights around organizing principles, classifications, and general rules of coupling processes with environmental conditions.