@article{4423c10da65846f3ab2c4aba43139252,
title = "Building a Global Ecosystem Research Infrastructure to Address Global Grand Challenges for Macrosystem Ecology",
abstract = "The development of several large-, “continental”-scale ecosystem research infrastructures over recent decades has provided a unique opportunity in the history of ecological science. The Global Ecosystem Research Infrastructure (GERI) is an integrated network of analogous, but independent, site-based ecosystem research infrastructures (ERI) dedicated to better understand the function and change of indicator ecosystems across global biomes. Bringing together these ERIs, harmonizing their respective data and reducing uncertainties enables broader cross-continental ecological research. It will also enhance the research community capabilities to address current and anticipate future global scale ecological challenges. Moreover, increasing the international capabilities of these ERIs goes beyond their original design intent, and is an unexpected added value of these large national investments. Here, we identify specific global grand challenge areas and research trends to advance the ecological frontiers across continents that can be addressed through the federation of these cross-continental-scale ERIs.",
keywords = "environmental research infrastructure, federating infrastructure, interoperability, macrosystem science, new capabilities, societal benefit",
author = "Loescher, {Henry W.} and Rodrigo Vargas and Michael Mirtl and Beryl Morris and Johan Pauw and Xiubo Yu and Werner Kutsch and Paula Mabee and Jianwu Tang and Ruddell, {Benjamin L.} and Peter Pulsifer and Jaana B{\"a}ck and Steffen Zacharias and Mark Grant and Gregor Feig and Leiming Zhang and Christoph Waldmann and Genazzio, {Melissa A.}",
note = "Funding Information: This manuscript is in part the product of several workshops and ongoing GERI development. The first workshop was the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) sponsored and entitled: “Towards a Global Ecosystem Observatory”, 5–7 March 2017, University of Queensland, Brisbane Australia. Another workshop was sponsored by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and entitled: “Global Integrated Research Infrastructure component in Next Generation ILTER”, 17–20 April, 2018, South China Botanical Garden, Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province, China. The National Science Foundation (NSF) supported two workshops. The first was entitled: {\textquoteleft}Building a Global Ecological Understanding{\textquoteright} held at the University of Delaware, Newark Delaware, 3–6 June, 2016 (NSF 1347883) and the second entitled: “Global Environmental Research Infrastructure (GERI) Planning Workshop”, held at NEON HQ, Boulder Colorado, 25–27 June 2019 (NSF 1917180). The authors wish to thank the workshop attendees for their thoughtful contributions. NEON is a project sponsored by the NSF and managed under cooperative support agreement (DBI-1029808) to Battelle. All authors intellectually contributed toward {\textquoteleft}the main manuscript text{\textquoteright} and have reviewed and approved the manuscript. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of our shareholders or sponsors. This research would not have taken place without decades of collegial interactions and community engagement with our peers and mentors. Funding Information: This manuscript is in part the product of several workshops and ongoing GERI development. The first workshop was the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) sponsored and entitled: “Towards a Global Ecosystem Observatory”, 5–7 March 2017, University of Queensland, Brisbane Australia. Another workshop was sponsored by Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and entitled: “Global Integrated Research Infrastructure component in Next Generation ILTER”, 17–20 April, 2018, South China Botanical Garden, Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province, China. The National Science Foundation (NSF) supported two workshops. The first was entitled: {\textquoteleft}Building a Global Ecological Understanding{\textquoteright} held at the University of Delaware, Newark Delaware, 3–6 June, 2016 (NSF 1347883) and the second entitled: “Global Environmental Research Infrastructure (GERI) Planning Workshop”, held at NEON HQ, Boulder Colorado, 25–27 June 2019 (NSF 1917180). The authors wish to thank the workshop attendees for their thoughtful contributions. NEON is a project sponsored by the NSF and managed under cooperative support agreement (DBI‐1029808) to Battelle. All authors intellectually contributed toward {\textquoteleft}the main manuscript text{\textquoteright} and have reviewed and approved the manuscript. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of our shareholders or sponsors. This research would not have taken place without decades of collegial interactions and community engagement with our peers and mentors. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 The Authors. Earth's Future published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Geophysical Union.",
year = "2022",
month = may,
doi = "10.1029/2020EF001696",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "10",
journal = "Earth's Future",
issn = "2328-4277",
publisher = "John Wiley and Sons Inc.",
number = "5",
}