Finding generality in ecology: a model for globally distributed experiments

By Elizabeth T. Borer, W. Stanley Harpole, P. Adler, E. Lind, John L. Orrock, Eric W. Seabloom, Melinda D. Smith. 2014

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry

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Impacts of nitrogen addition on plant species richness and abundance: A global meta‐analysis (2018, methodology): “The latter might be solved by setting up globally distributed experiments, such as the Nutrient Network (Borer et al., 2014; Firn et al., 2011), but also by synthesizing multiple N‐addition experiments with a meta‐analy‐ sis, allowing the derivation of a more general quantitative response of plant…”
The Ecology and Evolution of Alien Plants (2018, unknown): “Causative tests for generality of invasion drivers could further be achieved by establishing research networks that replicate experiments globally , similar to the Nutrient Network (http://www. nutnet. umn.edu/) and Drought-Net (http://wp. natsci. colostate.edu/droughtnet/)(Borer et al. 2014).”
Advances in restoration ecology: rising to the challenges of the coming decades (2015, background): “These endeavors may be further aided by developing globally distributed experiments (Borer et al. 2014), along gradients of management action and environmental factors, and through support of developing cyberinfrastructure (Michener et al. 2012).”
Biodiversity change is uncoupled from species richness trends: Consequences for conservation and monitoring (2018, methodology): “Further details on these data are available (Borer et al., 2014).”
Four priority areas to advance invasion science in the face of rapid environmental change (2020, background): “The generality of hypotheses needs to be tested within various ecological and evolutionary contexts using, for example, spatially distributed experiments such as those employed to examine plant responses to nutrient enrichment and exclosure of mammalian herbivores (Borer et al. 2014).”
Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide. (2015, methodology): “We measured soil microbial and plant diversity at the 1 m(2) plot scale in 25 temperate-zone grassland sites of the global Nutrient Network experiment (Borer et al. 2014), including three in Africa, two in Australia, three in Europe and 17 in North America (Table S1).”
Transient dynamics of terrestrial carbon storage: mathematical foundation and its applications (2017, background): “Networks of global change experiments have been designed to uncover processes that regulate ecosystem C sequestration (Rustad et al., 2001; Luo et al., 2011; Fraser et al., 2013; Borer et al., 2014).”
Synthesizing the effects of large, wild herbivore exclusion on ecosystem function (2019, background): “…exclosures across a range of environmental conditions (65 grassland sites across six continents) to detect general impacts and context-dependencies of herbivory and nutrient availability (https ://nutnet.org/field_sites ; Borer, Grace, Harpole, MacDougall, & Seabloom, 2017; Borer et al., 2014).”
Why are plant–soil feedbacks so unpredictable, and what to do about it? (2018, background): “The power of existing long-term global experimental networks, such as NutNet (Borer et al., 2014) or ITEX (Arft et al., 1999), should be harnessed and incorporated into future PSF research.”