The Board on Life Sciences of the National Academies is pleased to announce the release of the report NEON: Addressing the Nation's Environmental Challenges. The report outlines six environmental issues of national concern that can only be addressed on a regional or continental scale. The report also examines the concept of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) proposed by the National Science Foundation and assesses whether NEON could provide infrastructure and logistical support efficiently for effective large-scale research in ecology and environmental biology. To view the report online, please visit http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10807.html 

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