Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Department of River Ecology and Conservation, Clamecystr. 12, D-63571 Gelnhausen, Germany; University of Duisburg-Essen, Department of River and Floodplain Ecology, Faculty of Biology, Universitätsstr. 5, D-45141 Essen, Germany.
Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt, Department of River Ecology and Conservation, Clamecystr. 12, D-63571 Gelnhausen, Germany; Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.
Sci Total Environ. 2018 Feb 1;613-614:1376-1384. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.111. Epub 2017 Oct 6.
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.
全球变化对生物多样性和人类福祉的影响要求改善长期环境数据，作为科学、政策和决策的基础，包括提高互操作性、多功能性和协调性。基于两个全球性倡议——国际长期生态研究（ILTER）网络和地球观测生物多样性观测网络（GEO BON）的例子，我们建议合并这些倡议背后的框架，即生态系统完整性和基本生物多样性变量，以作为改进的未来基于站点的陆地、淡水和沿海生态系统长期研究和监测的指导方针。我们得出了一份在监测站点进行测量的具体建议清单，并呼吁将站点整合到各个监测倡议的位于同一地点的站点网络中，并以生态系统为中心。这有助于生成链接的综合生态系统监测数据，支持在昂贵基础设施的使用方面发挥协同作用，促进跨倡议研究，并为超越 ILTER 和 GEO BON 社区的合作提供模板。
