{"id":951,"date":"2026-04-20T06:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jana.isantanavarro.com\/?page_id=951"},"modified":"2026-07-03T08:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:40:29","slug":"dare","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jana.isantanavarro.com\/?page_id=951","title":{"rendered":"DARE"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"951\" class=\"elementor elementor-951\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2d9104bc e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2d9104bc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;,&quot;background_motion_fx_motion_fx_scrolling&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;background_motion_fx_translateY_effect&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;background_motion_fx_translateY_speed&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:1,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;background_motion_fx_translateY_affectedRange&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;%&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:{&quot;start&quot;:0,&quot;end&quot;:100}},&quot;background_motion_fx_devices&quot;:[&quot;desktop&quot;,&quot;tablet&quot;,&quot;mobile&quot;]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5751ece7 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5751ece7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">DARE<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-59eb5f29 elementor-widget__width-auto elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"59eb5f29\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeIn&quot;,&quot;_animation_delay&quot;:300}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Distributed Aquatic Response Experiments<\/h6>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cf9714e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"cf9714e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4003e0b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4003e0b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">\ud83c\udf0dA Global Call for Participation<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ad13194 e-con-full e-flex elementor-invisible e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1ad13194\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeIn&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-677b4e63 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"677b4e63\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1365f3b elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1365f3b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Aquatic ecosystems span strong environmental gradients\u2014from marine to brackish to freshwater systems\u2014and host an extraordinary diversity of life. Yet much of experimental ecology still relies on simplified designs, single stressors, and a limited set of model organisms. As a result, we often lack a general, mechanistic understanding of how organisms respond to environmental change across ecosystems, taxa, and levels of biological organisation.<\/span><\/p><div><p><strong>DARE<\/strong> (<strong>D<\/strong>istributed <strong>A<\/strong>quatic <strong>R<\/strong>esponse <strong>E<\/strong>xperiments) is a global, community\u2011driven experimental initiative inspired our perspective <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-60470-5\">Sasaki, Isanta\u2011Navarro &amp; Govaert (2025)<\/a>. DARE directly responds to our call for experimental ecology that balances realism and feasibility by scaling up collaboration rather than complexity within single labs.<\/p><p>Our overarching goal is to identify general patterns in organismal performance across environmental gradients, and to link these patterns to broad ecological concepts\u2014such as body\u2011size rules, life\u2011history strategies, and performance trade\u2011offs\u2014across the full aquatic continuum.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-433928d elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"433928d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><span style=\"text-align: start\">\ud83e\uddec<\/span>The Idea <span style=\"text-align: start\">\ud83d\udd2c<\/span><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-90356d0 e-con-full e-flex elementor-invisible e-con e-child\" data-id=\"90356d0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeIn&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a90c642 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"a90c642\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cf09da3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cf09da3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>The Big Picture and Scientific Motivation<\/h3><div class=\"scriptor-paragraph\">DARE is built around one central idea: many small, well\u2011designed experiments, coordinated across systems and regions, can collectively reveal large\u2011scale ecological patterns that no individual study can detect alone.<\/div><div class=\"scriptor-paragraph\">Rather than focusing on absolute trait values, DARE emphasizes relative responses and effect sizes\u2014how much performance changes along environmental gradients, and how those changes compare across organisms and ecosystems. By doing so, we aim to move beyond system\u2011specific results towards generalizable insights into how environmental conditions shape organismal performance.<\/div><div class=\"scriptor-paragraph\">This approach allows us to:<\/div><ul class=\"\"><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4740\">Embrace ecological diversity rather than standardizing it away<\/li><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4740\">Work across freshwater, brackish, and marine systems<\/li><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4740\">Integrate results across taxa, life histories, and levels of organization<\/li><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4740\">Maintain experimental feasibility while increasing realism at the network scale<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-72cdf86 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"72cdf86\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>What Is the Experiment About?<\/h3><div class=\"scriptor-paragraph\">At its core, DARE focuses on organismal performance under environmental gradients.<\/div><div class=\"scriptor-paragraph\">Participants will expose their study organism(s) to one or more environmental stress gradients of:<\/div><ul class=\"\"><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4741\">Temperature<\/li><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4741\">Salinity<\/li><\/ul><div class=\"scriptor-paragraph\"><div>Participation is possible with either (i) a fully factorial experiment including low and high treatment levels, or (ii) a partially factorial experiment in which a single environmental gradient is applied.<\/div><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><h3>Response variables<\/h3><div class=\"scriptor-paragraph\">DARE is intentionally flexible. You choose the response that best captures performance in your organism, for example:<\/div><ul class=\"\"><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4742\">Growth rates<\/li><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4742\">Body size or size distributions<\/li><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4742\">Development time<\/li><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4742\">Reproductive output or fecundity proxies<\/li><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4742\">Other organism\u2011specific performance measures<\/li><\/ul><div class=\"scriptor-paragraph\">The shared focus is on relative changes across treatments, not on identical traits or absolute values.<\/div><div class=\"scriptor-paragraph\">Existing datasets that align with this framework are also welcome.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><h3>A Distributed, Multi\u2011Taxon Approach<\/h3><div class=\"scriptor-paragraph\">DARE is explicitly designed as a distributed experiment, spanning:<\/div><ul class=\"\"><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4743\">Marine, brackish, and freshwater ecosystems<\/li><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4743\">Microbes, primary producers, invertebrates, and vertebrates<\/li><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4743\">Model and non\u2011model organisms<\/li><\/ul><div class=\"scriptor-paragraph\"><strong>There is no single \u201cDARE organism\u201d or \u201cDARE protocol.\u201d<\/strong><\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div class=\"scriptor-paragraph\">Instead, coherence emerges through shared concepts, common analytical approaches, and synthesis across diversity.<\/div><div class=\"scriptor-paragraph\">This multi\u2011taxon design enables us to address broad questions, such as:<\/div><ul class=\"\"><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4744\">When do different organisms show similar or contrasting performance responses?<\/li><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4744\">How do environmental effects scale across body sizes, life histories, and ecosystems?<\/li><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4744\">Can coordinated experiments help explain classic ecological patterns across realms?<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3196c4d elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3196c4d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Do you DARE?  <span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;line-height: 18.4px\">\ud83d\udce3<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-weight: 400;text-align: start;line-height: 18.4px;font-family: Aptos, sans-serif\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: -webkit-standard;font-size: medium;font-weight: 400;text-align: start\"><\/span><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c0343b6 e-con-full e-flex elementor-invisible e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c0343b6\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeIn&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2403856 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"2403856\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b1fd5c2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b1fd5c2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Minimum expectation to participate<\/h3><ul class=\"\"><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4745\">You work with at least one aquatic organism you know well<\/li><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4745\">You can manipulate one environmental gradient relevant to your system<\/li><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4745\">You can measure a performance\u2011related response<\/li><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4745\">You are willing to contribute relative responses or effect sizes<\/li><\/ul><div class=\"scriptor-paragraph\">Participation is modular: contribute one piece, or many.<\/div><div>\u00a0<\/div><div><h3>Commitment to inclusivity<\/h3><div class=\"scriptor-paragraph\">Consistent with our vision, DARE actively aims to lower barriers to participation by:<\/div><ul class=\"\"><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4746\">Supporting distributed, low\u2011cost experimental designs<\/li><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4746\">Exploring small funding opportunities to support smaller labs<\/li><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4746\">Explicitly encouraging participation from the Global South<\/li><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4746\">Valuing existing data, partial designs, and diverse methodological approaches<\/li><\/ul><div class=\"scriptor-paragraph\">Early\u2011career researchers are especially encouraged to join, both as contributors and as leaders of sub\u2011projects and syntheses.<\/div><\/div><div><h3>\u00a0<\/h3><h3>Timeline<\/h3><ul class=\"\"><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4747\">2026: Network building, conceptual alignment, and method discussions<\/li><li class=\"scriptor-listItemlist!list-6817e8ac-7990-4573-8c8a-8d8ccfb8f4747\">2027: Distributed experimental phase across systems and regions<\/li><\/ul><div class=\"scriptor-paragraph\">Researchers interested in shaping the conceptual and methodological foundation of DARE are encouraged to join early.\u00a0<\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-34194ef e-con-full e-flex elementor-invisible e-con e-child\" data-id=\"34194ef\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;animation&quot;:&quot;fadeIn&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-60f5e80 elementor-widget-mobile__width-initial elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"60f5e80\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" 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