TY - JOUR

T1 - The next generation of site-based long-term ecological monitoring: Linking essential biodiversity variables and ecosystem integrity

AU - Haase, Peter

AU - Tonkin, Jonathan D

AU - Stoll, Stefan

AU - Burkhard, Benjamin

AU - Frenzel, Mark

AU - Geijzendorffer, Ilse R

AU - Häuser, Christoph

AU - Klotz, Stefan

AU - Kühn, Ingolf

AU - McDowell, William H

AU - Mirtl, Michael

AU - Müller, Felix

AU - Musche, Martin

AU - Penner, Johannes

AU - Zacharias, Steffen

AU - Schmeller, Dirk S

N1 - Funding information: The authors have received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 654359 (eLTER Horizon 2020 ) as well as from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement No 308454 (EU BON). Fig. 2 (left) was kindly provided by André Künzelmann. (1)

PY - 2018/2/1

Y1 - 2018/2/1

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Biodiversity

KW - Decision Making

KW - Ecosystem

KW - Environmental Monitoring/methods

KW - Environmental Policy

KW - Long‐term ecosystem research

KW - Site networks

KW - LTER

KW - EBV

KW - Research infrastructure

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U2 - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.111

DO - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.111

M3 - Article

C2 - 29898505

VL - 613-614

SP - 1376

EP - 1384

JO - Science of the Total Environment

JF - Science of the Total Environment

SN - 0048-9697

ER -