TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mollenhauer, Hannes
A1  - Kasner, Max
A1  - Haase, Peter
A1  - Peterseil, Johannes
A1  - Wohner, Christoph
A1  - Frenzel, Mark
A1  - Mirtl, Michael
A1  - Schima, Robert
A1  - Bumberger, Jan
A1  - Zacharias, Steffen
T1  - Long-term environmental monitoring infrastructures in Europe : observations, measurements, scales, and socio-ecological representativeness
T2  - The science of the total environment
N2  - 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.
KW  - Long-term ecological monitoring
KW  - Ecosystem integrity
KW  - Essential biodiversity variables
KW  - Biogeographical representativeness
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/47692
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-476929
SN  - 1879-1026
SN  - 0048-9697
N1  - © 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/).
VL  - 624
SP  - 968
EP  - 978
PB  - Elsevier Science
CY  - Amsterdam [u. a.]
ER  -