TY  - JOUR
A1  - Haase, Peter
A1  - Tonkin, Jonathan D.
A1  - Stoll, Stefan
A1  - Burkhard, Benjamin
A1  - Frenzel, Mark
A1  - Geijzendorffer, Ilse R.
A1  - Häuser, Christoph L.
A1  - Klotz, Stefan
A1  - Kühn, Ingolf
A1  - McDowell, William H.
A1  - Mirtl, Michael
A1  - Müller, Felix
A1  - Musche, Martin
A1  - Penner, Johannes
A1  - Zacharias, Steffen
A1  - Schmeller, Dirk S.
T1  - The next generation of site-based long-term ecological monitoring : linking essential biodiversity variables and ecosystem integrity
T2  - The science of the total environment
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.
KW  - Long‐term ecosystem research
KW  - EBV
KW  - LTER
KW  - Research infrastructure
KW  - Site networks
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46870
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-468702
SN  - 1879-1026
SN  - 0048-9697
N1  - © 2017 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/).
VL  - 613/614
SP  - 1376
EP  - 1384
PB  - Elsevier Science
CY  - Amsterdam [u. a.]
ER  -