To date, many water quality monitoring networks for surface freshwaters have been rather
haphazardly designed without a consistent or logical design strategy. Moreover, design …

Most atmospheric scientists agree that climate changes are going to increase the mean
temperature in Europe with increased frequency of climatic extremes, such as drought …

Global change effects on biodiversity and human wellbeing call for improved long-term
environmental data as a basis for science, policy and decision making, including increased …

Multicompartment and multiscale long‐term observation and research are important
prerequisites to tackling the scientific challenges resulting from climate and global change …

The state of ecosystems, biological communities and species are continuously changing as
a result of both natural processes and the activities of humans. In order to detect and …

Abstract The South American temperate and sub-Antarctic forests cover the longest
latitudinal range in the Southern Hemisphere and include the world's southernmost forests …

The most important attribute of geospatial platforms is their unique potential to aggregate a
multitude of public and private geographic data sets, providing access to data from …

Better integration of knowledge from ecological, social and economic science is necessary
to advance the understanding and modelling of socio-ecological systems. To model …

Widespread concern over the state of the environment and the impacts of anthropogenic
activities on ecosystem services and functions has highlighted the need for high-quality …

Non-agricultural lands are surveyed sparsely in general. Meanwhile, soils in these areas
usually exhibit strong spatial variability which requires more samples for producing …