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. 2021 Jan 28;27(7):1387–1407. doi: 10.1111/gcb.15471

TABLE 1A.

Administrative and structural characteristics of the ecotrons. Additional information on each facility (including, in some cases, specific capacities of a subgroup of experimental units) are given in the Supporting Information file ‘Ecotrons descriptions'

Ecotron short name Owner Town, country Opening year Access Staff No. climate controlled cells Area each cell m2
ExpoSCREEN, München Helmholtz Zentrum München Neuherberg, Germany 1985 3 4 6
EcoCELLs, Reno Desert Research Institute Reno, Nevada USA 1995 0.25 4 40.5
Whole Tree Chambers, Richmond Western Sydney University Richmond, NSW, Australia 2006 1 12 8.3
Montpellier Ecotron, Macrocosms CNRS (INEE) Montferrier sur Lez, France 2010 2.7 12 20
IledeFrance Ecotron Ecolab, Nemours CNRS (INEE) Saint‐Pierre‐lès‐Nemours, France 2017 3.5 15 4.5
iDiv Ecotron, Leipzig iDiv, Leipzig University Bad Lauchstädt, Germany 2017 1.5 24 2
TUMmesa, München Technical University Munich Freising, Germany 2017 1 8 8
UHasselt Ecotron, Hasselt Hasselt University Maasmechelen, Belgium 2018 2.7 12 19
TERRA Ecotron, Gembloux Liège University Gembloux, Belgium 2018 2 6 20.3
Montpellier Ecotron, Mesocosms CNRS (INEE) Montferrier sur lez, France 2018 2.7 18 1
TerraXcube, Bolzano Eurac Research Bolzano/Bozen, Italy 2020 2 4 9
AGRASIM, Jülich Forschungszentrum Jülich Jülich, Germany 2021–2022 3 4 2.6
Antwerp Ecotron University of Antwerp Antwerp, Belgium 2021 −2022 1 Not set 4

Access, ● open calls (see Supporting Information file ‘Ecotrons individual descriptions’ for links to these calls) with occasional in‐house collaborative projects; o in‐house projects with external collaborations; Staff, Number of persons/year (permanent or on temporary contract) fully dedicated to the functioning of the ecotron. (e.g. 1 means that there is the equivalent of one technical person working 12 months full time for the facility).

Number of cells, The cells provide (independently from each other) the climate control over a single lysimeter (they are then called enclosures) or over several lysimeters (in that case they are then called chambers).

Area cell, Area of each enclosure or chamber allowing the climate control. It is the lysimeter(s) area plus, if present, a walking area around the lysimeter(s).