ABSTRACT

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Infrastructures: Challenges and Opportunities reveals how environmental research infrastructures (RIs) provide new valuable insights on ecological processes that cannot be realized by more traditional short-term funding cycles and are integral to understand our changing world. This book bonds the latest state-of-the-science knowledge on environmental RIs, the challenges in creating them, their place in addressing scientific frontiers, and the new perspectives they bear. Each chapter is thoughtfully invested with fresh viewpoints from the environmental RI vantage as the authors explore and explain many topics such as the rationale and challenges in global change, field and modeling platforms, new tools, challenges in data management, distilling information into knowledge, and new developments in large-scale RIs. This work serves an advantageous guide for academics and practitioners alike who aim to deepen their knowledge in the field of science and project management, and logistics operations.

section I|81 pages

Ecosystem Research Infrastructures

chapter 1|24 pages

Integrated Experimental Research Infrastructures

A Paradigm Shift to Face an Uncertain World and Innovate for Societal Benefit

chapter 2|26 pages

National Ecological Observatory Network

Beginnings, Programmatic and Scientific Challenges, and Ecological Forecasting

section II|81 pages

A New Generation of Controlled Environment, Field, and Modeling Platforms

section III|141 pages

New Tools to Meet New Challenges

chapter 8|20 pages

Characterization of Biogeochemical Processes at the Microscale

Concepts and Applications of NanoSIMS

chapter 9|22 pages

Climate Warming Experiments

Selecting the Appropriate Technique

chapter 10|44 pages

Remote Sensing in the Reflective Spectrum

A Powerful and Applied Technology for Terrestrial Ecosystem Science

section IV|122 pages

Data Management and Access

section V|95 pages

Infrastructure Integration and Perspectives

chapter 16|22 pages

Australia’s Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

A Network of Networks Approach to Building and Maintaining Continental Ecosystem Research Infrastructures

chapter 18|20 pages

Synthesis Centres

Their Relevance to and Importance in the Anthropocene

chapter 20|16 pages

Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS)

An Infrastructure to Monitor the European Greenhouse Gas Balance