Integrative research efforts at the boundary of biodiversity and global change research
| Autor: | Gabriela Schaepman-Strub, Benedikt Korf, Owen L. Petchey, Samuel Abiven, Florian Altermatt, Kentaro Shimizu, Debra Zuppinger-Dingley, Norman Backhaus, Michael E. Schaepman, Pascal A. Niklaus, Reinhard Furrer, Anna Deplazes-Zemp |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Environmental change business.industry Computer science Scale (chemistry) media_common.quotation_subject Big data General Social Sciences 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Data science Ecosystem services Terminology Confirmation bias Transdisciplinarity business Temporal scales 0105 earth and related environmental sciences General Environmental Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 29:215-222 |
| ISSN: | 1877-3435 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cosust.2018.04.016 |
| Popis: | Global environmental change and biodiversity loss are closely linked through different feedback mechanisms. The University of Zurich Research Priority Programme on ‘Global Change and Biodiversity’ approach is to work with interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity to integrate mechanisms of interactions, feedback and scale and improve our understanding of the feedbacks between global change and biodiversity effects. Such work across research disciplines is not without its challenges. Here we share some of the questions that arose from our research approach over the last five years and how we addressed these challenges. First, our transdisciplinary approach allows combining different disciplines into a more holistic perspective towards integrative research, but demands collaborative work to establish common terminology, concepts, and metrics. Second, the research theme's common perspective (biodiversity is desirable, global change is not) may also induce a confirmation bias from preconceived ideas. Third, new challenges emerge from scaling mechanisms and feedbacks at different spatial and temporal scales. Fourth, we investigate how to relate biodiversity, global change, ecosystem services and functions using interdisciplinary approaches. Fifth, we identify gaps between existing experiments and data requirements, and propose the definition of new experimental setups by linking processes and performing experiments at typical experimental scales as well as at larger scales. We conclude by emphasising the necessity to integrate theory, experiments, modelling and simulation, high performance computing and big data to understand feedbacks between biodiversity loss and processes of global change. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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