Krutika Deshpande¹, Benjamin L Ruddell¹, Cedric Hagen², Hank W Loescher^2,3, Michael SanClements^2,3, Christine M Laney², Thomas G Bornman⁴, Gregor T Feig⁴, Leo Chiloane⁴, Elisa Girola⁵, Guru Siddeswara⁶, Beryl Morris⁵, Paula Mabee², Michael Mirtl^7,8, Pamela L Sullivan⁹, Emmanual Salmon¹⁰, Melinda Dianne Smith¹¹, Werner Leo Kutsch¹⁰, Steffen Zacharias¹², Jaana K Back¹³, Tyson Lee Swetnam¹⁴, Nirav Merchant¹⁵ and Xiubo Yu¹⁶, (1)Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, United States, (2)Battelle, National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Boulder, United States, (3)Institute of Alpine and Arctic Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States, (4)South African Environmental Observation Network (SAEON), Elwandle Coastal Node, Gqeberha, South Africa, (5)Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, (6)Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), The University of Queensland, Indooroopillay, Australia, (7)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH, Leipzig, Germany, (8)Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Environment Agency Austria, Vienna, Austria, (9)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States, (10)ICOS ERIC, Head Office, Helsinki, Finland, (11)Colorado State University, Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (12)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Department of Monitoring and Exploration Technologies, Leipzig, Germany, (13)Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, (14)University of Arizona, CyVerse, Tucson, United States, (15)University of Arizona, Cyverse, Tuscon, United States, (16)Chinese Ecosystem Research Network, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CERN), Beijing, China