Toward a Better Integration of Ecological Principles into Ecogeoscience Research
Toward a Better Integration of Ecological Principles into Ecogeoscience Research
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将生态原理更好地融入生态地球科学研究
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2014
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T. Wynn
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作者：
D. Allen;B. Cardinale;T. Wynn
生态水文学和生态地貌学领域的跨学科研究正变得越来越重要，因为这是一种理解生物和物理过程如何相互作用以影响世界上一些最紧迫的环境问题的方式；然而，这种研究的很大一部分是基于对生态系统的过于简单化的假设。在这里，我们提供了一个路线图，将一些生态学原理整合到这些值得未来研究的萌芽研究领域。我们重点讨论了对生态水文学和生态地貌学具有重要意义的三个基本生态学原理：生物特征因物种多样性而呈分布性存在，生物特征随时间变化具有适应性和动态性，物种与环境之间的动态耦合关系创造了生物-非生物反馈循环。我们提出了几个包含这些原则的一般假设，并有助于指导未来的生态水文学和生态地貌学研究。
Interdisciplinary research in the fields of ecohydrology and ecogeomorphology is becoming increasingly important as a way to understand how biological and physical processes interact to affect some of the world’s most pressing environmental problems; however, much of this research is based on overly simplistic assumptions about ecological systems. Here, we provide a road map for the integration of some ecological principles into these budding fields of research that warrant future study. We focus on three basic principles of ecology that should have important implications for ecohydrology and ecogeomorphology: Biological traits exist in a distribution due to species diversity, biological traits are adaptable and dynamic through time, and dynamically coupled relationships between species and their environments create biotic–abiotic feedback cycles. We develop several general hypotheses that incorporate these principles and can help guide future ecohydrology and ecogeomorphology studies.