Description: ExpeER Experimentation in Ecosystem Research
models (3482) analysis (2827) natura (799) databases (508) ecosystems (74) experimentation (60) ecotrons (2) long term experimental platforms (1) highly-instrumented (1) analytical platforms (1)
By uniting these highly instrumented ecosystem research facilities under the same umbrella and with a common vision, ExpeER intended to contribute to structuring the still fragmented research community on terrestrial ecosystems within the European Research Area. ExpeER was improving quality and performance of these infrastructure components in a sustainable manner and stimulating their international use.
ExpeER did contribute to the development of a state-of-the-art research infrastructure by:
Scientists involved in the project consortium ranged from physiologists to environmental scientists, with a large number of participants involved in agronomy, ecology and biochemistry. This range of disciplines is essential to the long-term development of ecosystem science, in that detailed studies of small, rapid processes need to be embedded in longer term, larger scale experiments in order to develop a true systems approach, resulting in models that transfer information across scales. Much progress in en