The Global Ecosystems Monitoring network: Monitoring ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling across the tropics

dc.contributor.authorMalhi, Yadvinder
dc.contributor.authorGirardin, Cécile A J
dc.contributor.authorMetcalfe, D B
dc.contributor.authorDoughty, Christopher E.
dc.contributor.authorAragão, Luiz E.O.C.
dc.contributor.authorRifai, Sami W
dc.contributor.authorOliveras, Immaculada
dc.contributor.authorShenkin, Alexander
dc.contributor.authorAguirre-Gutiérrez, Jesus
dc.contributor.authorDahlsjö, Cecilia A.L.
dc.contributor.authorMeir, Patrick
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-19T05:41:17Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.date.updated2021-11-28T07:24:08Z
dc.description.abstractA rich understanding of the productivity, carbon and nutrient cycling of terrestrial ecosystems is essential in the context of understanding, modelling and managing the future response of the biosphere to global change. This need is particularly acute in tropical ecosystems, home to over 60% of global terrestrial productivity, over half of planetary biodiversity, and hotspots of anthropogenic pressure. In recent years there has been a surge of activity in collecting data on the carbon cycle, productivity, and plant functional traits of tropical ecosystems, most intensively through the Global Ecosystems Monitoring network (GEM). The GEM approach provides valuable insights by linking field-based ecosystem ecology with the needs of Earth system science. In this paper, we review and synthesize the context, history and recent scientific output from the GEM network. Key insights have emerged on the spatial and temporal variability of ecosystem productivity and on the role of temperature and drought stress on ecosystem function and resilience. New work across the network is now linking carbon cycling to nutrient cycling and plant functional traits, and subsequently to airborne remote sensing. We discuss some of the novel emerging patterns and practical and methodological challenges of this approach, and examine current and possible future directions, both within this network and as lessons for a more general terrestrial ecosystem observation scheme.en_AU
dc.description.sponsorshipThe core establishment of the GEM network has been supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant GEM-TRAIT (321131). Site development in individual locations have been supported by multiple grants from the UK Natural Environment Research Council, in particular NE/D014174/1, NE/J023418/1, NE/I014705/1, NE/K016369/1, NE/K016385/1, NE/F005776/1, NE/N012453/1, NE/P001092/1 and NE/S01084X/1. Activities in Africa have been additionally supported by Royal Society-Leverhulme and Royal Society-DFID Africa Capacity Building Awards. Work in Malaysia has been greatly supported by the Sime Darby Foundation. YM is supported by the Jackson Foundation.en_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn0006-3207en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/275648
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherElsevieren_AU
dc.rights© 2020 The authorsen_AU
dc.sourceBiological Conservationen_AU
dc.subjectTropical forestsen_AU
dc.subjectNet primary productivityen_AU
dc.subjectCarbon cycleen_AU
dc.subjectAllocationen_AU
dc.subjectTraitsen_AU
dc.subjectMonitoringen_AU
dc.titleThe Global Ecosystems Monitoring network: Monitoring ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling across the tropicsen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationMalhi, Yadvinder, University of Oxforden_AU
local.contributor.affiliationGirardin, Cécile A J, University of Oxforden_AU
local.contributor.affiliationMetcalfe, D B , Lund Universityen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationDoughty, Christopher E., Northern Arizona Universityen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationAragão, Luiz E.O.C., Divisão de Sensoriamento Remoto - DIDSR, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciaisen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationRifai, Sami W, University of New South Walesen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationOliveras, Immaculada, University of Oxforden_AU
local.contributor.affiliationShenkin, Alexander, University of Oxford,en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationAguirre-Gutiérrez, Jesus, University of Oxforden_AU
local.contributor.affiliationDahlsjö, Cecilia A.L., University of Oxforden_AU
local.contributor.affiliationMeir, Patrick, College of Science, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu4875047@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidMeir, Patrick, u4875047en_AU
local.description.embargo2099-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor310303 - Ecological physiologyen_AU
local.identifier.absseo280111 - Expanding knowledge in the environmental sciencesen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB17431en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume253en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108889en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85098985127
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBya383154en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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