Contributors: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte Natal (UFRN); Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies Hobart (IMAS); University of Tasmania Hobart, Australia (UTAS); University of California Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara); University of California (UC); Università degli Studi Roma Tre = Roma Tre University (ROMA TRE); Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI); Federal University of Espírito Santo; University of Latvia (LU); South African Environmental Observation Network Pretoria (SAEON); Nelson Mandela University Port Elizabeth; Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS); Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung = Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research = Institut Alfred-Wegener pour la recherche polaire et marine (AWI); Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft = Helmholtz Association; Hokkaido University Sapporo, Japan; National Research Council of Italy; Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR) (LEMAR); Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM); Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Università degli Studi del Molise = University of Molise (UNIMOL); Institute of Oceanology of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IO-BAS); Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS); Littoral, Environnement, Télédétection, Géomatique (LETG - Brest); Littoral, Environnement, Télédétection, Géomatique UMR 6554 (LETG); Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN); Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU)-Université d'Angers (UA)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE); Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Université de Rennes 2 (UR2)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Géographie et d'Aménagement Régional de l'Université de Nantes (IGARUN); Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Caen Normandie (UNICAEN); Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN); Umeå University, Sweden; Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (SZN)
نبذة مختصرة : International audience ; Understanding the threats to global biodiversity and ecosystem services posed by human impacts on coastal and marine environments requires the establishment and maintenance of ecological observatories that integrate the biological, physical, geological, and biogeochemical aspects of ecosystems. This is crucial to provide scientists and stakeholders with the support and knowledge necessary to quantify environmental change and its impact on the sustainable use of the seas and coasts. In this paper, we explore the potential for the coastal and marine components of the International Long-Term Ecological Research Network (ILTER) to fill this need for integrated global observation, and highlight how ecological observations are necessary to address the challenges posed by climate change and evolving human needs and stressors within the coastal zone. The ILTER is a global network encompassing 44 countries and 700 research sites in a variety of ecosystems across the planet, more than 100 of which are located in coastal and marine environments (ILTER-CMS). While most of the ILTER-CMS were established after the year 2000, in some cases they date back to the early 1900s. At ILTER sites, a broad variety of abiotic and biotic variables are measured, which may feed into other global initiatives. The ILTER community has produced tools to harmonize and compare measurements and methods, allowing for data integration workflows and analyses between and within individual ILTER sites. After a brief historical overview of ILTER, with emphasis on the marine component, we analyze the potential contribution of the ILTER-CMS to global coastal and ocean observation, adopting the "Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threats (SWOT)" approach. We also identify ways in which the in situ parameters collected at ILTER sites currently fit within the Essential Ocean Variables framework (as proposed by the Framework for Ocean Observation recommendations) and provide insights on the use of new technology in long-term ...
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