Using long-term ecosystem service and biodiversity data to study the impacts and adaptation options in response to climate change: insights from the global ILTER sites network

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• 作者：Petteri Vihervaara¹ ; ^{petteri.vihervaara@ymparisto.fi} ; Dalia D&rsquo ; Amato¹ ; Martin Forsius¹ ; Per Angelstam² ; Cornelia Baessler³ ; Patricia Balvanera⁴ ; Bazartseren Boldgiv⁵ ; Patrick Bourgeron⁶ ; Jan Dick⁷ ; Robert Kanka⁸ ; Stefan Klotz³ ; Manuel Maass⁴ ; Viesturs Melecis⁹ ; Petr Pet?í ; k¹⁰ ; Hideaki Shibata¹¹ ; Jianwu Tang¹² ; Jill Thompson⁷ ; ¹³ ; Steffen Zacharias³
• 刊名：Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：March, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：5
• 期：1
• 页码：53-66
• 全文大小：676 K

文摘

The International Long Term Ecological Research (ILTER) network can coordinate ecological research to provide observations of the ecosystem changes, and their socio-economic impacts on human societies at different scales. In this paper we demonstrate the importance of the ILTER network in the study and monitoring of environmental changes at a global level. We give examples of how biodiversity and ecosystem service data can be used to study impacts and adaptation options in response to climate change. Analysis of the 107 recent publications from LTER networks representing 21 countries show that LTER studies are often local and heterogeneous. There are some ecosystem types, such as agricultural or coastal ecosystems that are not covered with current ILTER network. Standardized monitoring schemes and techniques should be considered for future steering of ILTER collaboration. Integrating and synthesizing the collected data should be prioritized for future cooperation, and integrated in decision-making.