Urgent environmental issues are testing the limits of current management approaches and
pushing demand for innovative approaches that integrate across traditional disciplinary …

Collaborative research teams are a necessary and desirable component of most scientific
endeavors. Effective collaborative teams exhibit important research outcomes, far beyond …

Interdisciplinary research is widely considered a hothouse for innovation, and the only
plausible approach to complex problems such as climate change,. One barrier to …

Modeling is essential to characterize and explore complex societal and environmental
issues in systematic and collaborative ways. Socio-environmental systems (SES) modeling …

Research articles produced through international collaboration are more highly cited than
other work, but are they also more novel? Using measures developed by Uzzi et al.(2013) …

AmeriFlux scientists were early adopters of a network-enabled approach to ecosystem
science that continues to transform the study of land-atmosphere interactions. In the 20 …

Macrosystems ecology is the study of diverse ecological phenomena at the scale of regions
to continents and their interactions with phenomena at other scales. This emerging …

4 phones we use every day. While this connectivity has brought about impressive
improvements to many people in terms of the distribution of food and other resources around …

Assessing and predicting ecosystem responses to global environmental change and its
impacts on human well-being are high priority targets for the scientific community. The …

Interdisciplinary research is on the rise globally. Yet, several studies have shown that it often
achieves lower impact compared to more specialized work, and is less likely to attract …