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  • Ecological science
  • Organismal biology
  • Environmental monitoring

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  • Human activities are altering global ecosystems, impacting biodiversity, agriculture, and disease dynamics.
  • Observatory networks, integrating sensors, field research, and extensive databases, are increasingly used to study ecological phenomena across scales.
  • Existing networks like the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) have primarily served population, community, and ecosystem ecology.

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  • To highlight the underutilized potential of ecological observatory networks for organismal biology.
  • To demonstrate how NEON can advance the study of individual organismal variation.
  • To explore the application of observatory networks in understanding the drivers and outcomes of organismal diversity.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing data and infrastructure from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) as a case study.
  • Examining the opportunities NEON presents for organismal biologists.
  • Analyzing how NEON data can inform studies on morphological, behavioral, molecular, and physiological variation.

Main Results:

  • Ecological observatory networks provide a unique resource for organismal biologists.
  • NEON facilitates the study of critical biological processes including range expansions, disease dynamics, and invasive species.
  • These networks offer unprecedented opportunities to investigate the causes and consequences of variation within individual organisms.

Conclusions:

  • Ecological observatory networks, exemplified by NEON, are powerful tools for advancing organismal biology.
  • Leveraging these networks can significantly improve our understanding of biological variation and its ecological implications.
  • The integration of organismal studies into observatory networks is essential for comprehensive ecological research.