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NEON: The promises and challenges of large-scale ecological research (Ep 101)

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The IBP and the Ecosystems Program

IBP started in Europe through some international acronym. US scientists got together and agreed to be a part of the IBP. It was driven by ecologists and led by ecologists. And it really did change the way ecologists operated. A lot of people didn't think ecosystem science was particularly valuable back in those days. Everybody likes to pick on what didn't get accomplished. But it created a different way of doing science.

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