Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Infrastructures

Challenges and Opportunities

Abad Chabbi, Henry W. Loescher, Abad Chabbi, Henry W. Loescher

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2017
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781498751339
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Ecology
• Index: Biological Sciences

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

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface: Goals and Structure of This Book
• Editors
• Contributors
• Reviewers and Support
• Section I: Ecosystem Research Infrastructures The Need to Address Global Change and Associated Challenges
• Section II: A New Generation of Controlled Environment, Field, and Modeling Platforms
• Section III: New Tools to Meet New Challenges Emerging Technologies for Exploring Unknown Ecosystem Processes
• Section IV: Data Management and Access
• Section V: Infrastructure Integration and Perspectives
• Index