@article {KNZ002049,
	title = {Synergies among environmental science research and monitoring networks: A research agenda},
	journal = {Earth{\textquoteright}s Future},
	volume = {9},
	year = {2021},
	pages = {e2020EF001631},
	abstract = {<p>Many research and monitoring networks in recent decades have provided publicly available data documenting environmental and ecological change, but little is known about the status of efforts to synthesize this information across networks. We convened a working group to assess ongoing and potential cross-network synthesis research and outline opportunities and challenges for the future, focusing on the US-based research network (the US Long-Term Ecological Research network, LTER) and monitoring network (the National Ecological Observatory Network, NEON). LTER-NEON cross-network research synergies arise from the potentials for LTER measurements, experiments, models, and observational studies to provide context and mechanisms for interpreting NEON data, and for NEON measurements to provide standardization and broad scale coverage that complement LTER studies. Initial cross-network syntheses at co-located sites in the LTER and NEON networks are addressing six broad topics: how long-term vegetation change influences C fluxes; how detailed remotely sensed data reveal vegetation structure and function; aquatic-terrestrial connections of nutrient cycling; ecosystem response to soil biogeochemistry and microbial processes; population and species responses to environmental change; and disturbance, stability and resilience. This initial study offers exciting potentials for expanded cross-network syntheses involving multiple long-term ecosystem processes at regional or continental scales. These potential syntheses could provide a pathway for the broader scientific community, beyond LTER and NEON, to engage in cross-network science. These examples also apply to many other research and monitoring networks in the US and globally, and can guide scientists and research administrators in promoting broad-scale research that supports resource management and environmental policy.</p>},
	keywords = {LTER-KNZ},
	doi = {10.1029/2020EF001631},
	url = {https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020EF001631},
	author = {Jones, J.A. and Groffman, P.M. and Blair, J.M. and Davis, F.W. and Dugan, H. and Euskirchen, E.E. and Frey, S.D. and Harms, T.K. and Hinckley, E. and Kosmala, M. and Loberg, S. and Malone, S. and Novick, K. and Record, S. and Rocha, A.V. and Ruddell, B.L. and Stanley, E.H. and Sturtevant, C. and Thorpe, A. and White, T. and Wieder, W.R. and Zhai, L. and Zhu, K.}
}
@article {KNZ001498,
	title = {Long-term ecological research in a human-dominated world},
	journal = {BioScience},
	volume = {62},
	year = {2012},
	pages = {342 -353},
	abstract = {<p>The US Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network enters its fourth decade with a distinguished record of achievement in ecological science. The value of long-term observations and experiments has never been more important for testing ecological theory and for addressing today\&$\#$39;s most difficult environmental challenges. The network\&$\#$39;s potential for tackling emergent continent-scale questions such as cryosphere loss and landscape change is becoming increasingly apparent on the basis of a capacity to combine long-term observations and experimental results with new observatory-based measurements, to study socioecological systems, to advance the use of environmental cyberinfrastructure, to promote environmental science literacy, and to engage with decisionmakers in framing major directions for research. The long-term context of network science, from understanding the past to forecasting the future, provides a valuable perspective for helping to solve many of the crucial environmental problems facing society today.</p>},
	keywords = {LTER-KNZ, coupled natural{\textendash}human systems, cyberinfrastructure, environmental education, environmental observatories, socioecological systems},
	doi = {10.1525/bio.2012.62.4.6},
	url = {https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/62/4/342/243601},
	author = {Robertson, G.P. and Scott. L. Collins and D.R. Foster and Brokaw, N. and Ducklow, H.W. and Gragson, T.L. and Gries, C. and Hamilton, S.K. and McGuire, A.D. and Moore, J.C. and Stanley, E.H. and Waide, R.B. and Williams, M.W.}
}
