Firbank Les G, Bertora Chiara, Blankman David, Delle Vedove Gemini, Frenzel Mark, Grignani Carlo, Groner Elli, Kertész Miklós, Krab Eveline J, Matteucci Giorgio, Menta Christina, Mueller Carsten W, Stadler Jutta, Kunin William E
School of Biology University of Leeds Leeds UK.
Department of Agriculture, Forest and Food Science Università degli Studi di Torino Torino Italy.
Ecol Evol. 2017 Apr 23;7(11):3967-3975. doi: 10.1002/ece3.2997. eCollection 2017 Jun.
The study of ecosystem processes over multiple scales of space and time is often best achieved using comparable data from multiple sites. Yet, long-term ecological observatories have often developed their own data collection protocols. Here, we address this problem by proposing a set of ecological protocols suitable for widespread adoption by the ecological community. Scientists from the European ecological research community prioritized terrestrial ecosystem parameters that could benefit from a more consistent approach to data collection within the resources available at most long-term ecological observatories. Parameters for which standard methods are in widespread use, or for which methods are evolving rapidly, were not selected. Protocols were developed by domain experts, building on existing methods where possible, and refined through a process of field testing and training. They address above-ground plant biomass; decomposition; land use and management; leaf area index; soil mesofaunal diversity; soil C and N stocks, and greenhouse gas emissions from soils. These complement existing methods to provide a complete assessment of ecological integrity. These protocols offer integrated approaches to ecological data collection that are low cost and are starting to be used across the European Long Term Ecological Research community.
在多个空间和时间尺度上研究生态系统过程，通常最好使用来自多个地点的可比数据来实现。然而，长期生态观测站往往制定了自己的数据收集方案。在此，我们通过提出一套适合生态学界广泛采用的生态方案来解决这一问题。欧洲生态研究界的科学家们对陆地生态系统参数进行了优先排序，这些参数可受益于在大多数长期生态观测站现有的资源范围内采用更一致的数据收集方法。未选择那些标准方法已广泛使用或方法正在迅速发展的参数。这些方案由领域专家制定，尽可能以现有方法为基础，并通过实地测试和培训过程进行完善。它们涉及地上植物生物量、分解、土地利用与管理、叶面积指数、土壤中型土壤动物多样性、土壤碳和氮储量以及土壤温室气体排放。这些方案补充了现有方法，以提供对生态完整性的全面评估。这些方案提供了低成本的生态数据收集综合方法，并且已开始在欧洲长期生态研究界中使用。
