Priorities for synthesis research in ecology and environmental science
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| Date | 2023-01 | ||||||||||||
| Language | English | ||||||||||||
| Author(s) | Halpern Benjamin S. , Boettiger Carl, Dietze Michael C., Gephart Jessica A., Gonzalez Patrick, Grimm Nancy B., Groffman Peter M., Gurevitch Jessica, Hobbie Sarah E., Komatsu Kimberly J., Kroeker Kristy J., Lahr Heather J., Lodge David M., Lortie Christopher J., Lowndes Julie S. S., Micheli Fiorenza, Possingham Hugh P., Ruckelshaus Mary H., Scarborough Courtney, Wood Chelsea L., Wu Grace C., Aoyama Lina, Arroyo Eva E., Bahlai Christie A., Beller Erin E., Blake Rachael E., Bork Karrigan S., Branch Trevor A., Brown Norah E. M., Brun Julien, Bruna Emilio M., Buckley Lauren B., Burnett Jessica L., Castorani Max C. N., Cheng Samantha H., Cohen Sarah C., Couture Jessica L., Crowder Larry B., Dee Laura E., Dias Arildo S., Diaz‐maroto Ignacio J., Downs Martha R., Dudney Joan C., Ellis Erle C., Emery Kyle A., Eurich Jacob G., Ferriss Bridget E., Fredston Alexa, Furukawa Hikaru, Gagné Sara A., Garlick Sarah R., Garroway Colin J., Gaynor Kaitlyn M., González Angélica L., Grames Eliza M., Guy‐haim Tamar, Hackett Ed, Hallett Lauren M., Harms Tamara K., Haulsee Danielle E., Haynes Kyle J., Hazen Elliott L., Jarvis Rebecca M., Jones Kristal, Kandlikar Gaurav S., Kincaid Dustin W., Knope Matthew L., Koirala Anil, Kolasa Jurek, Kominoski John S., Koricheva Julia, Lancaster Lesley T., Lawlor Jake A., Lowman Heili E., Muller‐karger Frank E., Norman Kari E. A., Nourn Nan, O'Hara Casey C., Ou Suzanne X., Padilla‐gamino Jacqueline L., Pappalardo Paula, Peek Ryan A., Pelletier Dominique, Plont Stephen, Ponisio Lauren C., Portales‐reyes Cristina, Provete Diogo B., Raes Eric J., Ramirez‐reyes Carlos, Ramos Irene, Record Sydne, Richardson Anthony J., Salguero‐gómez Roberto, Satterthwaite Erin V., Schmidt Chloé, Schwartz Aaron J., See Craig R., Shea Brendan D., Smith Rachel S., Sokol Eric R., Solomon Christopher T., Spanbauer Trisha, Stefanoudis Paris V., Sterner Beckett W., Sudbrack Vitor, Tonkin Jonathan D., Townes Ashley R., Valle Mireia, Walter Jonathan A., Wheeler Kathryn I., Wieder William R., Williams David R., Winter Marten, Winterova Barbora, Woodall Lucy C., Wymore Adam S., Youngflesh Casey |
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| Affiliation(s) | National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis University of California Santa Barbara California ,USA Bren School of Environmental Science and Management University of California Santa Barbara California ,USA Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management University of California Berkeley California ,USA Department of Earth & Environment Boston University Boston Massachusetts, USA Department of Environmental Science American University Washington District of Columbia ,USA Institute for Parks, People, and Biodiversity University of California Berkeley California ,USA School of Life Sciences Arizona State University Tempe Arizona ,USA City University of New York Advanced Science Research Center at the Graduate Center New York New York ,USA Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Millbrook New York ,USA Department of Ecology and Evolution Stony Brook University Stony Brook New York USA Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior University of Minnesota St. Paul Minnesota ,USA Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater Maryland ,USA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Santa Cruz Santa Cruz California ,USA Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability Cornell University Ithaca New York, USA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Cornell University Ithaca New York,USA Department of Biology York University Toronto Ontario ,Canada Hopkins Marine Station, Oceans Department Stanford University Pacific Grove California ,USA Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions Pacific Grove California USA Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science (CBCS) The University of Queensland Brisbane Queensland Australia The Natural Capital Project Stanford University Stanford California, USA School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences University of Washington Seattle Washington, USA Environmental Studies University of California Santa Barbara California, USA Environmental Studies Program and Department of Biology University of Oregon Eugene Oregon ,USA Department of Ecology Evolution and Environmental Biology New York New York, USA Department of Biological Sciences Kent State University Kent Ohio ,USA Real Estate and Workplace Services Sustainability Team Google Inc. Mountain View California ,USA Intertidal Agency Oakland California ,USA UC Davis School of Law Davis California,USA Department of Biology University of Victoria Victoria British Columbia, Canada Department of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation University of Florida Gainesville Florida, USA Department of Biology University of Washington Seattle Washington ,USA Core Science Systems Science Analytics and Synthesis U.S. Geological Survey, 8th and Kipling, Denver Federal Center Lakewood Colorado, USA Department of Environmental Sciences University of Virginia Charlottesville Virginia ,USA Center for Biodiversity and Conservation American Museum of Natural History New York New York, USA Estuary and Ocean Science Center, Biology Department San Francisco State University San Francisco California, USA Conservation International Santa Barbara California, USA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Colorado Boulder Colorado ,USA Department of Physical Geography (IPG) Goethe‐Universität Frankfurt (Campus Riedberg), Frankfurt am Main Germany Department of Agroforestry Engineering University of Santiago de Compostela Lugo ,Spain Department of Plant Sciences UC Davis Davis California ,USA Geography & Environmental Systems University of Maryland Baltimore Maryland, USA Department of Geography UC Los Angeles Los Angeles California ,USA Environmental Defense Fund Santa Barbara California, USA Resource Ecology and Fisheries Management Division Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA Seattle Washington, USA Department of Ocean Sciences University of California Santa Cruz California ,USA School of Earth and Space Exploration Arizona State University Tempe Arizona ,USA Department of Geography and Earth Sciences University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte North Carolina, USA Hubbard Brook Research Foundation Thornton New Hampshire,USA Department of Biological Sciences University of Manitoba Winnipeg Manitoba ,Canada Departments of Zoology and Botany University of British Columbia Vancouver British Columbia ,Canada Department of Biology & Center for Computational and Integrative Biology Rutgers University Camden New Jersey ,USA Department of Biology University of Nevada, Reno Reno Nevada ,USA National Institute of Oceanography Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR) Haifa ,Israel School of Human Evolution & Social Change Arizona State University Tempe Arizona ,USA Institute of Arctic Biology and Department of Biology & Wildlife University of Alaska Fairbanks Fairbanks Alaska, USA Blandy Experimental Farm University of Virginia Boyce Virginia ,USA School of Science Auckland University of Technology Auckland, New Zealand JG Research and Evaluation Bozeman Montana, USA Division of Biological Sciences & Division of Plant Sciences University of Missouri Columbia Missouri ,USA Vermont EPSCoR and Gund Institute for Environment University of Vermont Burlington Vermont ,USA Department of Biology University of Hawai'i at Hilo Hilo Hawaii, USA Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources University of Georgia Athens Georgia, USA Department of Biology McMaster University Hamilton Ontario ,Canada Institute of Environment Florida International University Miami Florida ,USA Department of Biological Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Surrey ,UK School of Biological Sciences University of Aberdeen Aberdeen, UK Department of Biology McGill University Montreal Quebec ,Canada Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science University of Nevada, Reno Reno Nevada, USA College of Marine Science University of South Florida St. Petersburg Florida, USA Département de sciences biologiques Université de Montréal Montréal Québec,Canada Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Michigan State University East Lansing Michigan ,USA Department of Biology Stanford University Stanford California, USA Marine Invasions Laboratory Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Tiburon California ,USA Center for Watershed Sciences University of California Davis California ,USA UMR DECOD, HALGO, Département Ressources Biologiques et Environnement Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer Lorient ,France Department of Biological Sciences Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg Virginia ,USA Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology University of Oregon Eugene Oregon, USA Department of Biology Saint Louis University St. Louis Missouri, USA Instituto de Biociências Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul Campo Grande, Brazil Minderoo Foundation, Flourishing Oceans Nedlands Western Australia ,Australia DeLaMare Science & Engineering Library University of Nevada Reno Nevada, USA Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO) Mexico City ,Mexico Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology University of Maine Orono Maine, USA School of Mathematics and Physics University of Queensland St Lucia Queensland ,Australia Department of Biology University of Oxford Oxford ,UK California Sea Grant Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego La Jolla California ,USA Center for Ecosystem Science and Society Northern Arizona University Flagstaff Arizona ,USA Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation Virginia Tech Blacksburg Virginia ,USA Battelle, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Boulder Colorado ,USA Department of Environmental Sciences/Lake Erie Center University of Toledo Toledo Ohio ,USA Department of Ecology and Evolution University of Lausanne Lausanne,Switzerland School of Biological Sciences University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand AZTI, Marine Research, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA) Sukarrieta ,Spain Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Terrestrial Sciences Section National Center for Atmospheric Research Boulder Colorado, USA Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment University of Leeds Leeds, UK German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle‐Jena‐Leipzig Leipzig, Germany Department of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic Department of Natural Resources and the Environment University of New Hampshire Durham New Hampshire, USA Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior Program Michigan State University East Lansing Michigan, USA |
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| Source | Ecosphere (2150-8925) (Wiley), 2023-01 , Vol. 14 , N. 1 , P. e4342 (13p.) | ||||||||||||
| DOI | 10.1002/ecs2.4342 | ||||||||||||
| WOS© Times Cited | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Keyword(s) | complexity, coupled systems, diversity, ecological scale, justice, predictability, use-inspired science | ||||||||||||
| Abstract | Synthesis research in ecology and environmental science improves understanding, advances theory, identifies research priorities, and supports management strategies by linking data, ideas, and tools. Accelerating environmental challenges increases the need to focus synthesis science on the most pressing questions. To leverage input from the broader research community, we convened a virtual workshop with participants from many countries and disciplines to examine how and where synthesis can address key questions and themes in ecology and environmental science in the coming decade. Seven priority research topics emerged: (1) diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ), (2) human and natural systems, (3) actionable and use-inspired science, (4) scale, (5) generality, (6) complexity and resilience, and (7) predictability. Additionally, two issues regarding the general practice of synthesis emerged: the need for increased participant diversity and inclusive research practices; and increased and improved data flow, access, and skill-building. These topics and practices provide a strategic vision for future synthesis in ecology and environmental science. | ||||||||||||
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