Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Infrastructures: Challenges and Opportunities

ISBN-13: 9781498751315 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 534 str.

Abad Chabbi; Henry W. Loescher

Opis

Research infrastructure comprises the "hard" infrastructure, such as the networks of diverse sensors, the long-term monitoring plots and national sample archives; and the "soft" infrastructure, such as the standardisation of data collection, handling, meta-data, licensing and storage methods and tools. These research infrastructures are needed to recognize negative developments in our terrestrial ecosystems and initiate timely countermeasures or mitigate the negative impacts on society through long-term observations. This book brings together major knowledge on experimental infrastructures in ecosystem science for testing and predicting future environmental conditions, designing new approaches, identifying priorities and providing solutions to close current gaps in environmental monitoring.

Spis treści

Preface: Goals and Structure of This Book. Editors. Contributors. Section I Ecosystem Research Infrastructures: The Need to Address Global Change and Associated Challenges. Section II A New Generation of Controlled Environment, Field, and Modeling Platforms. Section III New Tools to meet New Challenges: Emerging Technologies for Exploring Unknown Ecosystem Processes. Section IV Data Management and Access. Section V Infrastructure Integration and Perspectives. Index.