Journal article
Bridge to the future: Important lessons from 20 years of ecosystem observations made by the OzFlux network
J Beringer, CE Moore, J Cleverly, DI Campbell, H Cleugh, MG De Kauwe, MUF Kirschbaum, A Griebel, S Grover, A Huete, LB Hutley, J Laubach, T Van Niel, SK Arndt, AC Bennett, LA Cernusak, D Eamus, CM Ewenz, JP Goodrich, M Jiang Show all
Global Change Biology | WILEY | Published : 2022
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16141
Abstract
In 2020, the Australian and New Zealand flux research and monitoring network, OzFlux, celebrated its 20th anniversary by reflecting on the lessons learned through two decades of ecosystem studies on global change biology. OzFlux is a network not only for ecosystem researchers, but also for those ‘next users’ of the knowledge, information and data that such networks provide. Here, we focus on eight lessons across topics of climate change and variability, disturbance and resilience, drought and heat stress and synergies with remote sensing and modelling. In distilling the key lessons learned, we also identify where further research is needed to fill knowledge gaps and improve the utility and r..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We dedicate this paper to the memory of Dr Vanessa Haverd, who died in January 2021. An avid user of FluxNet data, Vanessa was a highly respected colleague of our OzFlux community who greatly valued her enthusiastic collaboration. Her innovative research demonstrated the power of combining modelled and observed data and highlighted the value of networks such as OzFlux. She is sorely missed by us all in the OzFlux community. In 2009 funding was provided to the Australia Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) () through the Australian government's National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), which provides support for many OzFlux sites along with other capabilities such as intensive ecosystem monitoring (SuperSites), remote sensing (AusCover), modelling (eMAST), TERN synthesis (ACEAS), coastal, soils and plot-based networks (AusPlots), long-term ecological research network facilities (LTERN) and transects (Australian Transect Network. WW is supported by an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship (DE190101182). A.M.U acknowledges support from an ARC DECRA fellowship (DE200100086). S.H. acknowledges the support of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CE170100023). M.J. acknowledges support from the ARC DECRA fellowship (DE210101654). A.H. & T.N. acknowledge support from TERN project 'Developing best-practice Himawari data products for enhanced sub-daily monitoring of Australia's ecosystems'. M.D.K. and A.J.P. acknowledge support from the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes (CE170100023), the ARC Discovery Grant (DP190101823) and the NSW Research Attraction and Acceleration Program. BEM acknowledges support from Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship FL190100003. The research of A.J.N. was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (80NM0018D0004). X. M. was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (42171305) and Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province, China (21JR7RA499).