TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES

Features •Merges major knowledge on large-scale experimental infrastructures in ecosystem science to test and predict future environmental conditions •Includes a comprehensive selection of case study applications with relevant data summarized for terrestrial ecosystems. •Addresses questions on long-term ecosystem changes, and how to prepare for change and plan for future uncertainty. •Explores ways to cooperate on major environmental issues through world-class infrastructures. •Identifies priorities for innovative research activities and a look at how infrastructures can be societally relevant. Summary Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Infrastructures: Challenges and Opportunities reveals how environmental research infrastructures (RIs) provide new valuable insights on ecological processes that cannot be realized by more traditional short-term funding cycles and are integral to understand our changing world. This book bonds the latest state-of-the-science knowledge on environmental RIs,