Vegetation science in the age of big data

摘要

The age of big data is poised to revolutionize vegetation science. As online resources continue to grow, vegetation ecologists will need a growing set of computational skills to advance vegetation science in the digital age. Two papers in this issue of the Journal of Vegetation Science (Wiser 2016, Sandel et al. 2016) illustrate the resources available and use of big data to explore challenging ecological questions.