Two foundational questions about sustainability are “How are ecosystems and the services
they provide going to change in the future?” and “How do human decisions affect these …

Water is a crucial factor controlling the fate and processing of soil organics. Water commonly
flows through the vadose zone via preferential flow pathways, resulting in nonuniform and …

Tropical forests are the most diverse and productive ecosystems on Earth. While better 10
understanding of these forests is critical for our collective future, until quite recently efforts 11 …

Soil organic matter (SOM) supports the Earth's ability to sustain terrestrial ecosystems,
provide food and fiber, and retains the largest pool of actively cycling carbon. Over 75% of …

Field-measured soil respiration (RS, the soil-to-atmosphere CO 2 flux) observations were
compiled into a global soil respiration database (SRDB) a decade ago, a resource that has …

Environmental observatory networks (EONs) provide information to understand and forecast
the spatial and temporal dynamics of Earth's biophysical processes. Consequently …

Country-specific soil organic carbon (SOC) estimates are the baseline for the Global SOC
Map of the Global Soil Partnership (GSOCmap-GSP). This endeavor is key to explaining the …

Most forecasts for the future state of ecological systems are conducted once and never
updated or assessed. As a result, many available ecological forecasts are not based on the …

This article is composed of three independent commentaries about the state of Integrated,
Coordinated, Open, Networked (ICON) principles in the American Geophysical Union …

Environmental observatory networks (EONs) are coordinated efforts to provide knowledge
that ultimately delivers transformational ecological science from regional to global scales …