Many research and monitoring networks in recent decades have provided publicly available data documenting environmental and ecological change, but little is known about the status of efforts to synthesize this information across networks. We convened a working group to assess ongoing and potential cross‐network synthesis research and outline opportunities and challenges for the future, focusing on the US‐based research network (the US Long‐Term Ecological Research network, LTER) and monitoring network (the National Ecological Observatory Network, NEON). LTER‐NEON cross‐network research synergies arise from the potentials for LTER measurements, experiments, models, and observational studies to provide context and mechanisms for interpreting NEON data, and for NEON measurements to provide standardization and broad scale coverage that complement LTER studies. Initial cross‐network syntheses at co‐located sites in the LTER and NEON networks are addressing six broad topics: how long‐term vegetation change influences C fluxes; how detailed remotely sensed data reveal vegetation structure and function; aquatic‐terrestrial connections of nutrient cycling; ecosystem response to soil biogeochemistry and microbial processes; population and species responses to environmental change; and disturbance, stability and resilience. This initial study offers exciting potentials for expanded cross‐network syntheses involving multiple long‐term ecosystem processes at regional or continental scales. These potential syntheses could provide a pathway for the broader scientific community, beyond LTER and NEON, to engage in cross‐network science. These examples also apply to many other research and monitoring networks in the US and globally, and can guide scientists and research administrators in promoting broad‐scale research that supports resource management and environmental policy.

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环境科学研究与监测网络之间的协同作用：研究议程

近几十年来，许多研究和监测网络已经提供了公开可用的数据，记录了环境和生态变化，但是对于跨网络综合这些信息的工作状况知之甚少。我们召集了一个工作组来评估正在进行的和潜在的跨网络综合研究，并概述未来的机遇和挑战，重点是基于美国的研究网络（美国长期生态研究网络，LTER）和监测网络（国家NEON生态天文台网络）。LTER-NEON跨网络研究的协同作用源于LTER测量，实验，模型和观测研究的潜力，可为解释NEON数据提供背景和机制，NEON测量可提供标准化和广泛的覆盖范围，以补充LTER研究。LTER和NEON网络中位于同一地点的初始跨网络合成正在解决六个广泛的主题：长期植被变化如何影响C通量；详尽的遥感数据如何揭示植被的结构和功能；养分循环的水陆关系；生态系统对土壤生物地球化学和微生物过程的反应；人口和物种对环境变化的反应；以及干扰，稳定性和弹性。这项初步研究为扩展跨网络综合提供了令人兴奋的潜力，该综合涉及区域或大陆规模的多个长期生态系统过程。这些潜在的合成方法可以为LTER和NEON以外的更广泛的科学界提供途径，从事跨网络科学。这些示例还适用于美国和全球其他许多研究和监控网络，并可以指导科学家和研究管理人员促进支持资源管理和环境政策的大规模研究。