Building a Global Ecosystem Research Infrastructure to address global grand challenges for macrosystem ecology

Abstract

Governments, decision-makers, researchers, and the public have all recognized that our global economies, quality of life, and the environment are intrinsically intertwined (USGCRP, 2018; USGEO, 2019). The ecosystem services that our environment provides include food, air and water quality, biogeochemical cycling, biodiversity, soil fertility, and energy, all of which are under threat from the growing needs of a global society (Díaz et al., 2018;