@article{1d45f5aac6444b8ab3c770f0f57d1480,
title = "The plant diversity sampling design for The National Ecological Observatory Network",
abstract = "The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is designed to facilitate an understanding of the impact of environmental change on ecological systems. Observations of plant diversity—responsive to changes in climate, disturbance, and land use, and ecologically linked to soil, biogeochemistry, and organisms—result in NEON data products that cross a range of organizational levels. Collections include samples of plant tissue to enable investigations of genetics, plot-based observations of incidence and cover of native and non-native species, observations of plant functional traits, archived vouchers of plants, and remote sensing airborne observations. Spatially integrating many ecological observations allows a description of the relationship of plant diversity to climate, land use, organisms, and substrates. Repeating the observations over decades and across the United States will iteratively improve our understanding of those relationships and allow for the testing of system-level hypotheses as well as the development of predictions of future conditions.",
keywords = "National Ecological Observatory Network, Special Feature: NEON Design, plant diversity, plant functional traits, plant genetic archive",
author = "Barnett, {David T.} and Adler, {Peter B.} and Chemel, {Benjamin R.} and Duffy, {Paul A.} and Enquist, {Brian J.} and Grace, {James B.} and Susan Harrison and Peet, {Robert K.} and Schimel, {David S.} and Stohlgren, {Thomas J.} and Mark Vellend",
note = "Funding Information: Following the first author, all authors are listed in alphabetical order. The NEON is a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and managed under cooperative agreement by NEON Inc. The material presented is based on work supported by the NSF under the following grants: EF-1029808, EF-1138160, and DBI-0752017. The authors would like to thank Jim Clark, Debra Peters, Pam Soltis, Doug Soltis, Mark Whitten, Paul Evangelista, Geneva Chong, Becky Kao, David Gudex-Cross, scientists working on the NEON project, and the many members of the ecological community who have contributed expertise to guide and review the NEON design. Thomas J. Stohlg-ren was supported by USDA CSREES/NRI 2008-35615-04666. James B. Grace was supported by the USGS Ecosystems and Climate and Land use Change Programs. The use of trade names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Funding Information: Following the first author, all authors are listed in alphabetical order. The NEON is a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and managed under cooperative agreement by NEON Inc. The material presented is based on work supported by the NSF under the following grants: EF-1029808, EF-1138160, and DBI-0752017. The authors would like to thank Jim Clark, Debra Peters, Pam Soltis, Doug Soltis, Mark Whitten, Paul Evangelista, Geneva Chong, Becky Kao, David Gudex-Cross, scientists working on the NEON project, and the many members of the ecological community who have contributed expertise to guide and review the NEON design. Thomas J. Stohlgren was supported by USDA CSREES/NRI 2008-35615-04666. James B. Grace was supported by the USGS Ecosystems and Climate and Land use Change Programs. The use of trade names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 The Authors.",
year = "2019",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1002/ecs2.2603",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "10",
journal = "Ecosphere",
issn = "2150-8925",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "2",
}