- The challenges posed by climate and land use change are increasingly complex, with ever-increasing and accelerating impacts on the global environmental system. The establishment of an internationally harmonized, integrated, and long-term operated environmental monitoring infrastructure is one of the major challenges of modern environmental research. Increased efforts are currently being made in Europe to establish such a harmonized pan-European observation infrastructure, and the European network of Long-Term Ecological Research sites – LTER-Europe – is of particular importance. By evaluating 477 formally accredited LTER-Europe sites, this study gives an overview of the current distribution of these infrastructures and the present condition of long-term environmental research in Europe. We compiled information on long-term biotic and abiotic observations and measurements and examined the representativeness in terms of continental biogeographical and socio-ecological gradients. The results were used to identify gaps in both measurements and coverage of the aforementioned gradients. Furthermore, an overview of the current state of the LTER-Europe observation strategies is given. The latter forms the basis for investigating the comparability of existing LTER-Europe monitoring concepts both in terms of observational design as well as in terms of the scope of the environmental compartments, variables and properties covered.
MetadatenAuthor: | Hannes Mollenhauer, Max Kasner, Peter HaaseORCiDGND, Johannes Peterseil, Christoph Wohner, Mark Frenzel, Michael Mirtl, Robert Schima, Jan Bumberger, Steffen Zacharias |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-476929 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.12.095 |
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ISSN: | 1879-1026 |
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ISSN: | 0048-9697 |
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Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29275260 |
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Parent Title (English): | The science of the total environment |
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Publisher: | Elsevier Science |
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Place of publication: | Amsterdam [u. a.] |
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Contributor(s): | Jay Gan |
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Document Type: | Article |
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Language: | English |
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Year of Completion: | 2017 |
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Date of first Publication: | 2017/12/27 |
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Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
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Release Date: | 2018/10/16 |
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Tag: | Biogeographical representativeness; Ecosystem integrity; Essential biodiversity variables; Long-term ecological monitoring |
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Volume: | 624 |
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Page Number: | 11 |
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First Page: | 968 |
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Last Page: | 978 |
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Note: | © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
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HeBIS-PPN: | 439098092 |
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Institutes: | Angeschlossene und kooperierende Institutionen / Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft |
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| Biowissenschaften / Institut für Ökologie, Evolution und Diversität |
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Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 57 Biowissenschaften; Biologie / 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie |
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Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
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Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitung 4.0 |
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