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Next Generation Biomonitoring, Part 1 is the first part of a thematic series on ecological biomonitoring, including specific chapters that cover aquatic volatile metabolomics – using trace gases to examine ecological processes, next-generation approaches to rapid monitoring, bio-aerosol and the link between human health and environmental microbiology, NGB in Canadian wetlands, monitoring the biodiversity and functioning of terrestrial systems via high resolution trace gas fluxes, and computational approaches to gathering biomonitoring data from social media platforms: a superior solution to next generation biomonitoring challenges.
This volumes is followed by Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 59: Next Generation Biomonitoring, Part 2.
- Biomonitoring for the 21st Century: Integrating Next-Generation Sequencing Into Ecological Network Analysis
- Why We Need Sustainable Networks Bridging Countries, Disciplines, Cultures and Generations for Aquatic Biomonitoring 2.0: A Perspective Derived From the DNAqua-Net COST Action
- Advances in Monitoring and Modelling Climate at Ecologically Relevant Scales
- Challenges With Inferring How Land-Use Affects Terrestrial Biodiversity: Study Design, Time, Space and Synthesis
- Modelling and Projecting the Response of Local Terrestrial Biodiversity Worldwide to Land Use and Related Pressures: The PREDICTS Project
- Mapping Mediterranean Wetlands With Remote Sensing: A Good-Looking Map Is Not Always a Good Map
Dave Bohan is an agricultural ecologist with an interest in predator-prey regulation interactions. Dave uses a model system of a carabid beetle predator and two agriculturally important prey; slugs and weed seeds. He has shown that carabids find and consume slug prey, within fields, and that this leads to regulation of slug populations and interesting spatial `waves' in slug and carabid density. The carabids also intercept weed seeds shed by weed plants before they enter the soil, and thus carabids can regulate the long-term store of seeds in the seed bank on national scales. What is interesting about this system is that it contains two important regulation ecosystem services delivered by one group of service providers, the carabids. This system, therefore, integrates, in miniature, many of the problems of interaction between services. Dave has most recently begun to work with networks. He developed, with colleagues, a learning methodology to build networks from sample date. This has produced the largest, replicated network in agriculture. One of his particular interests is how behaviours and dynamics at the species level, as studied using the carabid-slug-weed system, build across species and their interactions to the dynamics of networks at the ecosystem level.
Dr Alex Dumbrell works at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, UK.
Guy Woodward is Professor of Ecology in the Department of Life Sciences at Imperial College London and Series Editor for Advances in Ecological Research. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, including recent papers in Nature, Science and Nature Climate Change, with a strong emphasis on understanding and predicting how aquatic ecosystems and food webs respond to a wide range of biotic and abiotic stressors, including climate change, chemical pollution, habitat degradation and invasive species. Much of this work covers multiple scales in space and time and also a range of organisational levels – from genes to ecosystems. His research group and ongoing collaborations span the natural and social sciences, reflecting the need for multidisciplinary approaches for addressing the environmental challenges of the 21st Century.
Dr Michelle Jackson works at Imperial College London.
