The DendroEcological Network: A cyberinfrastructure for the storage,discovery and sharing of tree-ring and associated ecological data
Affiliation:
1. Department of Geography, 207 Old Mill Building, 94 University Place, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405 USA;2. Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative, 705 Spear Street, South Burlington, VT 05403 USA;3. Rubenstein School of the Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405 USA;4. Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Northern Research Station, Burlington, VT 05405 USA;1. Departamento de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Avenida 25 de Mayo 384, 5730, Villa Mercedes, San Luis, Argentina;2. Forest Research Center – National Institute of Agricultural and Food Research and Technology, INIA-CIFOR, Carretera A Coruña km 7.5, 28040, Madrid, Spain;3. Instituto de Arqueología, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, 25 de mayo 217, CP 1002, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina;4. Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, Ruta 35, km 334, CP 6300, Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina;1. Flanders Heritage Agency, Havenlaan 88 box 5, 1000 Brussels, Belgium;2. Université de Liège, Labo de Dendrochronologie, Quartier Agora, Allée du Six Août 19, 4000 Liège 1, Belgium;1. Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA;2. Faculty of Geography, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation;3. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation;4. Department of Environmental Sciences, Huxley College, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, USA;5. School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ USA;6. Institute of Geography, RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation;1. Technische Universität München, Chair of Ecoclimatology, Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2, 85354 Freising, Germany;2. Biological and Environmental Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK;1. Siberian Federal University, 660041 Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation;2. Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS, 660036 Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation;3. Tuva State University, 667000 Kyzyl, Republic of Tuva, Russian Federation;4. Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Abstract:
The DendroEcological Network (DEN; https://www.uvm.edu/femc/dendro) is an opensource repository of high quality dendrochronological and associated ecological data. Launched in 2018, the mission of the DEN is to provide a centralized, standards-driven cyberinfrastructure for data storage, exploration and sharing. Specifically, the objectives of the DEN are to, 1) act as an integrator of dendrochronological and ecological data, 2) facilitate synthetic investigation and analyses of these data, 3) uphold the scientific community’s goals of data transparency and reproducibility of results, 4) serve as a long-term data archiving platform for use by individuals, laboratories and the greater scientific, management and conservation communities and, 5) leverage and extend previous and future research. The DEN facilitates the gathering of individual studies into a larger network, expanding the scale of inquiry to address pressing ecological questions that no single study can answer alone.
