Climate change, and its impacts on ecological, agricultural and other societal systems, is most often studied by relying on temperature data derived from countrywide weather‐station networks. Yet, these data do not capture microclimates, those arising from soil, vegetation and topography, at spatial scales relevant to the majority of organisms on Earth. We argue that a unified strategy is missing to design regional or countrywide networks to measure microclimates and thus provide ecologically relevant and sound climate data, for instance for modelling biodiversity and ecosystem functions.

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设计全国和区域小气候网络

气候变化及其对生态，农业和其他社会系统的影响，最常见的研究方法是依靠来自全国性气象站网络的温度数据。但是，这些数据并未捕获与地球上大多数生物有关的空间尺度上的微气候，这些微气候是由土壤，植被和地形引起的。我们认为，缺乏统一的策略来设计区域或全国范围的网络以测量微气候，从而提供与生态相关且合理的气候数据，例如用于对生物多样性和生态系统功能进行建模的数据。