Value of long-term ecological studies

• Published in: Austral ecology Vol. 37; no. 7; pp. 745 - 757
• Main Authors: LINDENMAYER, DAVID B., LIKENS, GENE E., ANDERSEN, ALAN, BOWMAN, DAVID, BULL, C. MICHAEL, BURNS, EMMA, DICKMAN, CHRIS R., HOFFMANN, ARY A., KEITH, DAVID A., LIDDELL, MICHAEL J., LOWE, ANDREW J., METCALFE, DANIEL J., PHINN, STUART R., RUSSELL-SMITH, JEREMY, THURGATE, NIKKI, WARDLE, GLENDA M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Melbourne, Australia Blackwell Publishing Asia 01.11.2012; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Climate change; data collection; data processing; decision making; Ecological change; ecological modeling; Ecological models; Ecological research; Ecological studies; Ecological theory; Ecologists; Ecology; Ecosystem management; Ecosystems; environmental change; Environmental changes; Environmental conditions; funding; human population; Human populations; issues and policy; Long-term ecological study; managers; Modelling; Multidisciplinary research; Natural resource management; parameterization; resource management; simulation; simulation models; Species extinction; Vulnerability assessment

Long‐term ecological studies are critical for providing key insights in ecology, environmental change, natural resource management and biodiversity conservation. In this paper, we briefly discuss five key values of such studies. These are: (1) quantifying ecological responses to drivers of ecosystem...