Fighting Earth's degradation and safeguarding the environment are subjects of topical
interest and sources of hot debate in today's society. According to the United Nations, there …

Environmental sensor networks offer a powerful combination of distributed sensing capacity,
real‐time data visualization and analysis, and integration with adjacent networks and remote …

Robotic systems are increasingly being utilized as fundamental data-gathering tools by
scientists, allowing new perspectives and a greater understanding of the planet and its …

The decade since the publication of the third edition of this volume has been an era of great
progress in biology in general and the plant sciences in particular. This is especially true …

Characterization of spatial and temporal variation of soil respiration coupled with fine root
and rhizomorph dynamics is necessary to understand the mechanisms that regulate soil …

Ecosystem processes are influenced by weather and climatic perturbations at multiple
temporal scales with a large range of amplitudes and phases. Technological advances of …

We seek to understand how biophysical factors such as soil temperature (Ts), soil moisture
(θ), and gross primary production (GPP) influence CO2 fluxes across terrestrial ecosystems …

Innovative uses of advanced sensors and sensor networks are starting to be translated into
new ecological knowledge. These sensors are providing a new set of “eyes” through which …

Plant water availability, use, and management have largely focused on physical processes
of infiltration and the role of roots in uptake and transpiration. However, roots and …

Abstract Information on the life-cycle environmental impacts of agricultural production is
often limited. As demands grow for increasing agricultural output while reducing its negative …