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The Biodiversity Observation Network in the Asia-Pacific Region

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Climate change and human activity (land use change and management) are the major drivers of changes in biodiversity, which ranges from the genetic composition of a given population to the structure and functions in an ecosystem and to the ecosystems in a landscape. The structural and functional diversity of an ecosystem on a landscape or regional scale could have a serious impact on the regional to global environmental sustainability and ecosystem services. Also, those ecosystem properties could have feedback effects on the population, individual, and genetic levels (e.g., Schulze and Mooney 1994). These cross-hierarchy consequences strongly suggest the need for understanding the relations between ecosystem properties and their internal and external drivers (Noss 1990; Scholes et al. 2008).

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Acknowledgments

The activities of the in situ/remote sensing integration working group are supported by many colleagues, who have contributed to the research networks, such as JaLTER/ILTER-EAP, Monitoring site 1000 (Ministry of Environment, Japan), JapanFlux, and J-BON/AP-BON. Research activities by the authors introduced in this article have been partly supported by Global Environment Research Fund of the Ministry of the Environment Japan (S-1: Integrated Study for Terrestrial Carbon Management of Asia in the twenty-first Century Based on Scientific Advancement), JSPS 21st century COE program “Satellite Ecology” and JSPS-NRF-NSFC A3 Foresight Program at Gifu University, JAXA GCOM-C project under contract 102: “Development of integrative information of the terrestrial ecosystem” (PI: Kenlo Nishida Nasahara). And the research activity is also supported by the Environment Research & Technology Development Fund (D-0909 and S-9) of the Ministry of Environment Japan.

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  1. Institute for Basin Ecosystem Studies, Gifu University, Gifu, 501-1193, Japan

    Hiroyuki Muraoka

  2. Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama, 236-0001, Japan

    Reiichiro Ishii, Shin Nagai & Rikie Suzuki

  3. Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, 305-8572, Japan

    Takeshi Motohka, Hibiki M. Noda, Mitsuru Hirota & Kenlo N. Nasahara

  4. Ecosystem Observation Research Center, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Tsukuba, 305-8505, Japan

    Kenlo N. Nasahara

  5. Center for Environmental Measurement and Analysis, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, 305-8506, Japan

    Hiroyuki Oguma

  6. KYOSEI Science Center for Life and Nature, Nara Women’s University, Nara, 630-8506, Japan

    Kanako Muramatsu

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Glossary of Research Networks

AsiaFlux

Asian CO2 flux network (http://asiaflux.yonsei.ac.kr)

BON

Biodiversity Observation Network (http://www.earthobservations.org/geobon.shtml)

CTBS

The Center for Tropical Forest Science (http://www.ctfs.si.edu)

CERN

Chinese Ecosystem Research Network (http://www.cern.ac.cn:8080)

FLUXNET

(http://www.fluxnet.ornl.gov/fluxnet/index.cfm)

ILTER

International Long Term Ecological Research network (http://www.ilternet.edu)

JaLTER

Japan Long Term Ecological Research network (http://www.jalter.org/modules/database/index.php?ml_lang=en)

JapanFlux

Japan CO2 flux network (http://www.japanflux.org/index_E.html)

KLTER

Korea Long-Term Ecological Research network (http://www.klter.org/emain.htm)

PEN

Phenological Eyes Network (http://www.pheno-eye.org)

TEAM

Tropical Ecology Assessment & Monitoring Network (http://www.teamnetwork.org/en)

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Muraoka, H. et al. (2012). Linking Remote Sensing and In Situ Ecosystem/Biodiversity Observations by “Satellite Ecology”. In: Nakano, Si., Yahara, T., Nakashizuka, T. (eds) The Biodiversity Observation Network in the Asia-Pacific Region. Ecological Research Monographs. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54032-8_21

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