Cedric Hagen¹, Michael SanClements², Jaana K Back³, Thomas G Bornman⁴, Gregor T Feig⁵, Phumlile Cotiyane-Pondo⁶, Rosmery Cruz⁷, Elisa Girola⁸, Krutika Deshpande⁹, Alex Cerón-González¹⁰, Katya Jay¹¹, Tyler Karns¹², Connor Keating¹², Werner Leo Kutsch¹³, Christine M Laney¹⁴, Hank W Loescher¹⁵, Paula Mabee¹, Michael Mirtl^16,17, Beryl Morris¹⁸, Bailey Murphy¹⁹, Thomas Ohnemus²⁰, Lilit Pogosyan²¹, Angela Ruth Possinger²², Samuel Villarreal²³, Benjamin L Ruddell⁹, J. Alexander Siggers²⁴, Danielle Spence²⁵, Tyson Lee Swetnam²⁶, Christian Poppe²⁷ and Qiaoyun Xie²⁸, (1)Battelle, National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, United States, (2)National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Battelle, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, (4)Nelson Mandela University, South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), Elwandle Coastal Node, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, (5)South African Weather Service, now at South African Environmental Observation Network, Pretoria, South Africa, (6)South African Environmental Observation Network, Elwandle Node, Gqeberha, South Africa, (7)University of Delaware, Plant and Soil Sciences, Newark, DE, United States, (8)The University of Queensland, Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), Brisbane, Australia, (9)Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, United States, (10)Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Archaeology, Brussels, Belgium, (11)University of Colorado, Boulder, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, (12)Battelle, AS&T, Columbus, United States, (13)ICOS Headoffice, Helsinki, Finland, (14)National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle, Boulder, United States, (15)Battelle - National Ecological Observatory Network, CEO Office, Boulder, United States, (16)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH, Leipzig, Germany, (17)Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Environment Agency Austria, Vienna, Austria, (18)University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, (19)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States, (20)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Monitoring and Exploration Technologies, Leipzig, Germany, (21)Instituto de Ecología AC, Red de Ecología Funcional, Xalapa, VL, Mexico, (22)Virginia Tech, School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Blacksburg, United States, (23)Centro de Investigación en Materiales Avanzados S.C., Durango, Mexico, (24)Colorado State University, Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Fort Collins, United States, (25)University of Saskatchewan, School of Environment and Sustainability, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (26)University of Arizona, CyVerse, Tucson, United States, (27)Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH, Julich, Germany, (28)The University of Western Australia, School of Engineering, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia