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The South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON) is a science network of people, organisations and, most importantly observation platforms, that perform Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) in South Africa and its surrounding oceans. The SAEON is of global importance as an innovative approach in ecology to understand environmental change and to determine the impact of anthropogenic forces at multiple scales but it is a remarkably complex challenge to statistically discern between ubiquitous natural variability and exogenous forcing.〔Andelman SJ & Willig MR, 2004. "Networks by Design: A Revolution in Ecology". ''Science'' 305(5690):1565-1567〕 The SAEON constitutes a national government response to the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Earth Summit 2002) and is a component of the GEO (Group on Earth Observations). The SAEON has become the leader in environmental science and observation in South Africa 〔http://www.earthobservations.org/documents/sbas/ec/93_TheestablishmentoftheSouthAfricanEnvironmental.pd〕 but has been criticised for taking a long time to establish, a situation which was inevitable in view of SAEON's multiple stakeholder corps.〔 It has also been raised that the cost of replicated experimental treatments across SAEON sites will be high 〔Midgley GF, Chown SL & Kgope BS, 2007. "Monitoring effects of anthropogenic climate change on ecosystems: A role for systematic ecological observation?" ''South African Journal of Science'' 103:282-286.〕 == Vision == SAEON is a comprehensive, sustained, coordinated and responsive South African environmental observation network that delivers long-term reliable data for scientific research and informs decision-making; for a knowledge society and improved quality of life 〔Van Jaarsveld AS, Pauw JC, Mundree S, Mecenero S, Coetzee BWT & Alard GF, 2007. "South African Environmental Observation Network: vision, design and status". ''South African Journal of Science'' 103:289-294〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「South African Environmental Observation Network」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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