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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section I|81 pages
Ecosystem Research Infrastructures
chapter 1|24 pages
Integrated Experimental Research Infrastructures
chapter 2|26 pages
National Ecological Observatory Network
chapter 3|29 pages
Field Phenotyping
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
chapter 10|44 pages
Remote Sensing in the Reflective Spectrum
section IV|122 pages
Data Management and Access
chapter 13|28 pages
Ækos
section V|95 pages
Infrastructure Integration and Perspectives