Advancing the understanding of coastal disturbances with a network‐of‐networks approach
Abstract Coastal ecosystems are at the nexus of many high priority challenges in environmental sciences, including predicting the influences of compounding disturbances exacerbated by climate change on biogeochemical cycling. While research in coastal science is fundamentally transdisciplinary—as dr...
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| author | Allison N. Myers‐Pigg Diana Moanga Ben Bond‐Lamberty Nicholas D. Ward J. Patrick Megonigal Elliott White Jr Vanessa L. Bailey Matthew L. Kirwan |
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| description | Abstract Coastal ecosystems are at the nexus of many high priority challenges in environmental sciences, including predicting the influences of compounding disturbances exacerbated by climate change on biogeochemical cycling. While research in coastal science is fundamentally transdisciplinary—as drivers of biogeochemical and ecological processes often span scientific and environmental domains—traditional place–based approaches are still often employed to understand coastal ecosystems. We argue that a macrosystems science perspective, including the integration across distributed research sites, is crucial to understand how compounding disturbances affect coastal ecosystems. We suggest that many grand challenge questions, such as advancing continental‐scale process understanding of extreme events and global change, will only be addressed in coastal ecosystems using a network‐of‐networks approach. We identify specific ways that existing research efforts can maximize benefit across multiple interested parties, and where additional infrastructure investments might increase return‐on‐investment along the coast, using the coastal continental United States as a case study. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d528d48640e94cf39fac2be7a1dde8942025-01-30T01:44:38ZengWileyEcosphere2150-89252025-01-01161n/an/a10.1002/ecs2.70156Advancing the understanding of coastal disturbances with a network‐of‐networks approachAllison N. Myers‐Pigg0Diana Moanga1Ben Bond‐Lamberty2Nicholas D. Ward3J. Patrick Megonigal4Elliott White Jr5Vanessa L. Bailey6Matthew L. Kirwan7Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Sequim Washington USADepartment of Earth System Science Stanford University Stanford California USAJoint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory College Park Maryland USAPacific Northwest National Laboratory Sequim Washington USASmithsonian Environmental Research Center Edgewater Maryland USADepartment of Earth System Science Stanford University Stanford California USAPacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland Washington USAVirginia Institute of Marine Science, William & Mary Batten School of Marine Sciences Gloucester Point Virginia USAAbstract Coastal ecosystems are at the nexus of many high priority challenges in environmental sciences, including predicting the influences of compounding disturbances exacerbated by climate change on biogeochemical cycling. While research in coastal science is fundamentally transdisciplinary—as drivers of biogeochemical and ecological processes often span scientific and environmental domains—traditional place–based approaches are still often employed to understand coastal ecosystems. We argue that a macrosystems science perspective, including the integration across distributed research sites, is crucial to understand how compounding disturbances affect coastal ecosystems. We suggest that many grand challenge questions, such as advancing continental‐scale process understanding of extreme events and global change, will only be addressed in coastal ecosystems using a network‐of‐networks approach. We identify specific ways that existing research efforts can maximize benefit across multiple interested parties, and where additional infrastructure investments might increase return‐on‐investment along the coast, using the coastal continental United States as a case study.https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70156biogeochemical cyclescoastal ecosystemsresearch networks |
| spellingShingle | Allison N. Myers‐Pigg Diana Moanga Ben Bond‐Lamberty Nicholas D. Ward J. Patrick Megonigal Elliott White Jr Vanessa L. Bailey Matthew L. Kirwan Advancing the understanding of coastal disturbances with a network‐of‐networks approach Ecosphere biogeochemical cycles coastal ecosystems research networks |
| title | Advancing the understanding of coastal disturbances with a network‐of‐networks approach |
| title_full | Advancing the understanding of coastal disturbances with a network‐of‐networks approach |
| title_fullStr | Advancing the understanding of coastal disturbances with a network‐of‐networks approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Advancing the understanding of coastal disturbances with a network‐of‐networks approach |
| title_short | Advancing the understanding of coastal disturbances with a network‐of‐networks approach |
| title_sort | advancing the understanding of coastal disturbances with a network of networks approach |
| topic | biogeochemical cycles coastal ecosystems research networks |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70156 |
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