| Title |
Online presentation of the SASSCAL ObservationNet (SASSCAL Book, Biodiversity & Ecology 6) |
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| Author |
Thomas Hillmann, Gerhard Muche, Katrin Josenhans, Norbert Jürgens |
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| Abstract |
One of the challenges of interdisciplinary research is to consistently make available the data and products that have been developed in the individual disciplines and to guarantee their long-term availability. For this purpose, the website for the SASSCAL ObservationNet (http://www.sasscalobservationnet.org) was developed. Biodiversity Observatories have been established as research infrastructures that allow the monitoring of the impact of climate and other environmental changes on biodiversity. Each observatory has a size of 1 km2 and is subdivided according to the needs of disciplinary research, but all of them follow a standardized sampling design (Jürgens et al., 2012). The observatories are studied by researchers from various disciplines including botany, zoology, agriculture, mycology, climatology, meteorology, soil sciences, remote sensing, anthropology, and socio-ecology. Information on changes in the
biosphere will be made available in a similar way, as meteorologists are already able to describe climate change (Pereira et al., 2013). In the frame of the Global Observation System of Systems (GEOSS, https://www.earthobservations.org/geoss.php) and its Global Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON, http://geobon.org), such plot-based observation sites are important research infrastructures. |
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| Citation |
Hillmann, T, Muche, G., Josenhans, K. & Jürgens, N. (2018) Online presentation of the SASSCAL ObservationNet In: Climate change and adaptive land management in southern Africa – assessments, changes, challenges, and solutions (ed. by Revermann, R., Krewenka, K.M., Schmiedel, U., Olwoch, J.M., Helmschrot, J. & Jürgens, N.), pp. 448-449, Biodiversity & Ecology, 6, Klaus Hess Publishers, Göttingen & Windhoek. doi:10.7809/b-e.00357 |
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| DOI |
10.7809/b-e.00357 |
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