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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Ideas and perspectives: Strengthening the biogeosciences in environmental research networks
Biogeosciences, Volume 15, No. 15, Year 2018
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Long-term environmental research networks are one approach to advancing local, regional, and global environmental science and education. A remarkable number and wide variety of environmental research networks operate around the world today. These are diverse in funding, infrastructure, motivating questions, scientific strengths, and the sciences that birthed and maintain the networks. Some networks have individual sites that were selected because they had produced invaluable long-term data, while other networks have new sites selected to span ecological gradients. However, all long-term environmental networks share two challenges. Networks must keep pace with scientific advances and interact with both the scientific community and society at large. If networks fall short of successfully addressing these challenges, they risk becoming irrelevant. The objective of this paper is to assert that the biogeosciences offer environmental research networks a number of opportunities to expand scientific impact and public engagement. We explore some of these opportunities with four networks: the International Long-Term Ecological Research Network programs (ILTERs), critical zone observatories (CZOs), Earth and ecological observatory networks (EONs), and the FLUXNET program of eddy flux sites. While these networks were founded and expanded by interdisciplinary scientists, the preponderance of expertise and funding has gravitated activities of ILTERs and EONs toward ecology and biology, CZOs toward the Earth sciences and geology, and FLUXNET toward ecophysiology and micrometeorology. Our point is not to homogenize networks, nor to diminish disciplinary science. Rather, we argue that by more fully incorporating the integration of biology and geology in long-term environmental research networks, scientists can better leverage network assets, keep pace with the ever-changing science of the environment, and engage with larger scientific and public audiences. © Author(s) 2018.
Authors & Co-Authors
Richter, Daniel Deb B.
United States, Durham
Duke University
Groffman, Peter M.
United States, New York
The City University of new York
Kelly, Eugene F.
United States, Fort Collins
Colorado State University
McDowell, William H.
United States, Durham
University of new Hampshire Durham
Baldocchi, Dennis D.
United States, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
Banwart, Steven A.
United Kingdom, Leeds
University of Leeds
Braun, Jean Jacques
France, Toulouse
Géosciences Environnement Toulouse
Hobbie, Sarah E.
United States, Minneapolis
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Gaillardet, Jérôme
France, Paris
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Jobbágy, Esteban Gabriel
Argentina, Buenos Aires
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Jungkunst, Hermann F.
Germany, Koblenz am Rhein
Universität Koblenz-landau
Kazanski, Clare E.
United States, Minneapolis
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Krishnaswamy, Jagdish
India, Bengaluru
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment
Markewitz, Daniel
United States, Athens
University of Georgia
Schroeder, Paul A.
United States, Athens
University of Georgia
Siebe, Ch
Mexico, Mexico
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Silver, Whendee L.
United States, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
Thompson, Aaron A.
United States, Athens
University of Georgia
Verhoef, Anne
United Kingdom, Reading
University of Reading
Zhang, Ganlin
China, Beijing
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Statistics
Citations: 23
Authors: 20
Affiliations: 22
Identifiers
Doi:
10.5194/bg-15-4815-2018
ISSN:
17264170