A social-ecological systems approach for environmental management

A Virapongse, S Brooks, EC Metcalf, M Zedalis… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Urgent environmental issues are testing the limits of current management approaches and
pushing demand for innovative approaches that integrate across traditional disciplinary …

Creating and maintaining high‐performing collaborative research teams: the importance of diversity and interpersonal skills

KS Cheruvelil, PA Soranno… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Collaborative research teams are a necessary and desirable component of most scientific
endeavors. Effective collaborative teams exhibit important research outcomes, far beyond …

Interdisciplinary research has consistently lower funding success

L Bromham, R Dinnage, X Hua - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Interdisciplinary research is widely considered a hothouse for innovation, and the only
plausible approach to complex problems such as climate change,. One barrier to …

Eight grand challenges in socio-environmental systems modeling

S Elsawah, T Filatova, AJ Jakeman, AJ Kettner… - Socio-Environmental …, 2019 - par.nsf.gov
Modeling is essential to characterize and explore complex societal and environmental
issues in systematic and collaborative ways. Socio-environmental systems (SES) modeling …

The AmeriFlux network: A coalition of the willing

KA Novick, JA Biederman, AR Desai, ME Litvak… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2018 - Elsevier
AmeriFlux scientists were early adopters of a network-enabled approach to ecosystem
science that continues to transform the study of land-atmosphere interactions. In the 20 …

International research collaboration: Novelty, conventionality, and atypicality in knowledge recombination

CS Wagner, TA Whetsell, S Mukherjee - Research Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
Research articles produced through international collaboration are more highly cited than
other work, but are they also more novel? Using measures developed by Uzzi et al.(2013) …

Macrosystems ecology: understanding ecological patterns and processes at continental scales

JB Heffernan, PA Soranno… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Macrosystems ecology is the study of diverse ecological phenomena at the scale of regions
to continents and their interactions with phenomena at other scales. This emerging …

Satellite remote sensing, biodiversity research and conservation of the future

N Pettorelli, K Safi, W Turner - … Transactions of the …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Assessing and predicting ecosystem responses to global environmental change and its
impacts on human well-being are high priority targets for the scientific community. The …

Interdisciplinary researchers attain better long-term funding performance

Y Sun, G Livan, A Ma, V Latora - Communications Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Interdisciplinary research is on the rise globally. Yet, several studies have shown that it often
achieves lower impact compared to more specialized work, and is less likely to attract …

Cross‐scale interactions: Quantifying multi‐scaled cause–effect relationships in macrosystems

PA Soranno, KS Cheruvelil, EG Bissell… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Ecologists are increasingly discovering that ecological processes are made up of
components that are multi‐scaled in space and time. Some of the most complex of these …