Building a global ecosystem research infrastructure to address global grand challenges for macrosystem ecology
Building a global ecosystem research infrastructure to address global grand challenges for macrosystem ecology
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2022-04-25
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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.
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.
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10.1029/2020ef001696
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Environmental research infrastructure
Macrosystem science
Interoperability
Societal benefit
New capabilities
Federating infrastructure
Macrosystem science
Interoperability
Societal benefit
New capabilities
Federating infrastructure
Abstract
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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© The Author(s), 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Loescher, H., Vargas, R., Mirtl, M., Morris, B., Pauw, J., Yu, X., Kutsch, W., Mabee, P., Tang, J., Ruddell, B., Pulsifer, P., Bäck, J., Zacharias, S., Grant, M., Feig, G., Zheng, L., Waldmann, C., & Genazzio, M. Building a global ecosystem research infrastructure to address global grand challenges for macrosystem ecology. Earth’s Future, 10(5), (2022): e2020EF001696, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020ef001696.
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Loescher, H., Vargas, R., Mirtl, M., Morris, B., Pauw, J., Yu, X., Kutsch, W., Mabee, P., Tang, J., Ruddell, B., Pulsifer, P., Bäck, J., Zacharias, S., Grant, M., Feig, G., Zheng, L., Waldmann, C., & Genazzio, M. (2022). Building a global ecosystem research infrastructure to address global grand challenges for macrosystem ecology. Earth’s Future, 10(5), e2020EF001696.