The Expanded Freshwater and Terrestrial Environmental Observation Network (EFTEON) is a Research Infrastructure (RI) that is being developed under the South African Research Infrastructure Roadmap (SARIR) program of the Department of Science and Technology. EFTEON is conceived as a modular, highly-networked RI to support studies on coupled ecological social systems in South Africa.
The design concept is based on distributed landscapes, each with responsibility for representing an important South African Ecosystem/Human complex. The landscapes are intended to include representatives of major biomes in South Africa and human transformed ecosystems such as urban areas and agricultural systems. The landscapes are supported by a central co-ordination and data management facility (shared with the Shallow Marine and Coastal Research Infrastructure (SMCRI) and general SAEON operations). Each of the landscapes is proposed to have a heavily instrumented core site for fresh water and terrestrial observations and a network of instrumented subsidiary sites, to provide supporting data at a broader spatial scale.
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