A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements

GT Freschet, L Pagès, CM Iversen, LH Comas… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In the context of a recent massive increase in research on plant root functions and their
impact on the environment, root ecologists currently face many important challenges to keep …

Situating ecology as a big-data science: current advances, challenges, and solutions

SS Farley, A Dawson, SJ Goring, JW Williams - BioScience, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Ecology has joined a world of big data. Two complementary frameworks define big data:
data that exceed the analytical capacities of individuals or disciplines or the “Four Vs” axes …

A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models

D Zurell, J Franklin, C König, PJ Bouchet… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Species distribution models (SDMs) constitute the most common class of models across
ecology, evolution and conservation. The advent of ready‐to‐use software packages and …

Building essential biodiversity variables (EBV s) of species distribution and abundance at a global scale

WD Kissling, JA Ahumada, A Bowser… - Biological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Much biodiversity data is collected worldwide, but it remains challenging to assemble the
scattered knowledge for assessing biodiversity status and trends. The concept of E ssential …

[HTML][HTML] The availability of research data declines rapidly with article age

TH Vines, AYK Albert, RL Andrew, F Débarre, DG Bock… - Current biology, 2014 - cell.com
Policies ensuring that research data are available on public archives are increasingly being
implemented at the government [1], funding agency [2–4], and journal [5, 6] level. These …

Developments in research data management in academic libraries: Towards an understanding of research data service maturity

AM Cox, MA Kennan, L Lyon… - Journal of the Association …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This article reports an international study of research data management (RDM) activities,
services, and capabilities in higher education libraries. It presents the results of a survey …

[HTML][HTML] Genesis, goals and achievements of long-term ecological research at the global scale: a critical review of ILTER and future directions

M Mirtl, ET Borer, I Djukic, M Forsius, H Haubold… - Science of the total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Since its founding in 1993 the International Long-term Ecological Research Network (ILTER)
has gone through pronounced development phases. The current network comprises 44 …

Finding generality in ecology: a model for globally distributed experiments

ET Borer, WS Harpole, PB Adler… - Methods in Ecology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Advancing the field of ecology relies on understanding generalities and developing theories
based on empirical and functional relationships that integrate across organismal to global …

[HTML][HTML] Smart Earth: A meta-review and implications for environmental governance

K Bakker, M Ritts - Global environmental change, 2018 - Elsevier
Environmental governance has the potential to be significantly transformed by Smart Earth
technologies, which deploy enhanced environmental monitoring via combinations of …

Predictive ecology in a changing world

N Mouquet, Y Lagadeuc, V Devictor… - Journal of applied …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In a rapidly changing world, ecology has the potential to move from empirical and
conceptual stages to application and management issues. It is now possible to make large …