Ecotrons: Powerful and versatile ecosystem analysers for ecology, agronomy and environmental science.

ABSTRACT: Ecosystems integrity and services are threatened by anthropogenic global changes. Mitigating and adapting to these changes require knowledge of ecosystem functioning in the expected novel environments, informed in large part through experimentation and modelling. This paper describes 13 advanced controlled environment facilities for experimental ecosystem studies, herein termed ecotrons, open to the international community. Ecotrons enable simulation of a wide range of natural environmental conditions in replicated and independent experimental units while measuring various ecosystem processes. This capacity to realistically control ecosystem environments is used to emulate a variety of climatic scenarios and soil conditions, in natural sunlight or through broad-spectrum lighting. The use o

SUBMITTER: Roy J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7986626 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature