Jornada Experimental Range, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA.
Trends Ecol Evol. 2010 Oct;25(10):592-601. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2010.07.005. Epub 2010 Aug 21.
Large volumes of data have been collected to document the many ways that ecological systems are responding to changing environmental drivers. A general buy-in on solutions to these problems can be reached only if these and future data are made easily accessible to and understood by a broad audience that includes the public, decision-makers, and other scientists. A developing framework for synthesis is reviewed that integrates three main strategies of ecological research (long-term studies; short-term, process-based studies; and broad-scale observations) with derived data products and additional sources of knowledge. This framework focuses on making data from multiple sources and disciplines easily understood by many, a prerequisite for finding synthetic solutions and predicting future dynamics in a changing world.
大量数据已经被收集，以记录生态系统对不断变化的环境驱动因素的多种响应方式。只有当这些数据以及未来的数据能够被广泛的受众（包括公众、决策者和其他科学家）轻松获取和理解时，才能达成对这些问题解决方案的普遍认同。本文回顾了一个正在发展的综合框架，该框架整合了生态研究的三个主要策略（长期研究、短期的基于过程的研究和大尺度观测），以及衍生的数据产品和其他知识来源。该框架侧重于使来自多个来源和学科的数据能够被许多人轻松理解，这是找到综合解决方案和预测不断变化世界中未来动态的前提条件。
