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 |
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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).