Global change effects on biodiversity and human wellbeing call for improved long-term environmental data as a basis for science, policy and decision making, including increased interoperability, multifunctionality, and harmonization. Based on the example of two global initiatives, the International Long-Term Ecological Research (ILTER) network and the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON), we propose merging the frameworks behind these initiatives, namely ecosystem integrity and essential biodiversity variables, to serve as an improved guideline for future site-based long-term research and monitoring in terrestrial, freshwater and coastal ecosystems. We derive a list of specific recommendations of what and how to measure at a monitoring site and call for an integration of sites into co-located site networks across individual monitoring initiatives, and centered on ecosystems. This facilitates the generation of linked comprehensive ecosystem monitoring data, supports synergies in the use of costly infrastructures, fosters cross-initiative research and provides a template for collaboration beyond the ILTER and GEO BON communities.
The next generation of site-based long-term ecological monitoring: Linking essential biodiversity variables and ecosystem integrity.
P. Haase,J. Tonkin,S. Stoll,Benjamin Burkhard,M. Frenzel,I. Geijzendorffer,C. Häuser,S. Klotz,I. Kühn,W. McDowell,M. Mirtl,F. Müller,M. Musche,Johannes Penner,S. Zacharias,D. Schmeller
Published 2018 in Science of the Total Environment
ABSTRACT
PUBLICATION RECORD
- Publication year
2018
- Venue
Science of the Total Environment
- Publication date
2018-02-01
- Fields of study
Medicine, Business, Environmental Science
- Identifiers
- External record
- Source metadata
Semantic Scholar, PubMed
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CLAIMS
CONCEPTS
- collaboration template
A proposed model for working across initiatives that extends beyond the ILTER and GEO BON communities.
Aliases: template for collaboration
- co-located site networks
Multiple monitoring initiatives organized around the same sites so their observations and infrastructure can be shared.
Aliases: co-located networks
- costly infrastructures
Expensive monitoring facilities and equipment whose shared use is emphasized as a benefit of co-location.
Aliases: expensive infrastructures
- ecosystem-centered integration
An organizing principle that links monitoring activities around ecosystems rather than around isolated initiatives.
Aliases: ecosystem-centered approach
- ecosystem integrity
A framework for assessing the condition and functioning of ecosystems used here as one of the two guiding approaches to long-term monitoring.
Aliases: integrity of ecosystems
- essential biodiversity variables
A standardized set of biodiversity measurements used here as the second guiding framework for monitoring and reporting.
Aliases: EBVs
- geo bon
The Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network used here as the second global initiative motivating the proposed merger.
Aliases: Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network
- ilter network
The International Long-Term Ecological Research network used here as one of the two global initiatives motivating the proposed merger.
Aliases: International Long-Term Ecological Research, ILTER
- linked comprehensive ecosystem monitoring data
Integrated datasets combining measurements from different monitoring efforts into a more complete ecosystem record.
Aliases: integrated ecosystem monitoring data
- site-based long-term ecological monitoring
Long-term environmental observation carried out at fixed sites to track ecological change over time.
Aliases: site-based monitoring, long-term ecological monitoring
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