FSML: A New Generation of Integrated Fire Research Equipment for Archbold Biological Station

FSML：阿奇博尔德生物站新一代综合火灾研究设备

• 批准号: 9812423
• 负责人: Hilary Swain
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Archbold Expeditions, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-10-01 至 1999-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9812423&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FSML; New; Generation; Integrated; Fire

This facilities improvement project will support a new generation of more up-to-date general use fire equipment for Archbold Biological Station. Archbold supports research and education by providing access to study areas and organisms on its 2,000 ha globally significant scrub preserve, one of the most distinctive regions in the U.S. This remnant xeric ecosystem lies on a narrow, north-south ridge of relict, sandy dunes running down the center of the Florida peninsula. It is characterized by endemic shrubby scrubs, with adaptations to droughty, nutrient-poor sandy soils. Fire is the dominant ecosystem process in scrub, with extremely high intensity, patchy, variable fire behavior. Archbold provides experimental manipulation, through large and small-scale prescribed fire, to test hypotheses about ecological responses to fire. The prescribed fire program has made Archbold one of the most exciting and productive field stations for studying fire ecology. The entire scrub ecosystem at Archbold is fire-dependent, and virtually all research relies on an active and effective prescribed fire program. Prescribed grassland fires at the MacArthur Agro-ecology Research Center, a major division of Archbold at a 4,200 ha cattle ranch, are Archbold established in 1941, is a not-for-profit independent research facility in central Florida, dedicated to long-term ecological research. Staff, visiting investigators, and students conduct research primarily focused on the organisms and environments of the Lake Wales Ridge and adjacent central Florida. Areas of research strength include ecology and conservation biology, in particular long-term processes. A major emphasis is the relationship between species and fire as an ecosystem process.

该设施改进项目将为阿赫博尔德生物站提供新一代更先进的通用消防设备。阿赫博尔德支持研究和教育，提供访问其2,000公顷的全球重要的灌木丛保护区，在美国最独特的地区之一，这个残余的干旱生态系统位于一个狭窄的，南北山脊的残余，桑迪运行下来的佛罗里达半岛的中心。 它的特点是地方性灌木，适应干旱，营养不良的桑迪土壤。火是灌丛生态系统的主要过程，具有极高的强度，斑块状，多变的火行为。 阿赫博尔德提供了实验操作，通过大规模和小规模的规定火灾，以测试生态学对火灾的反应的假设。 规定的火灾计划使阿赫博尔德成为研究火灾生态学最令人兴奋和最富有成效的野外站之一。 阿赫博尔德的整个灌木生态系统都依赖于火灾，几乎所有的研究都依赖于一个积极有效的规定火灾计划。 麦克阿瑟农业生态研究中心是阿赫博尔德在4,200公顷养牛场的一个主要部门，该中心成立于1941年，是阿赫博尔德在佛罗里达中部的一个非营利独立研究机构，致力于长期的生态研究。 工作人员，访问调查员和学生进行研究主要集中在威尔士湖岭和邻近的佛罗里达中部的生物和环境。 研究优势领域包括生态学和保护生物学，特别是长期过程。 一个主要的重点是物种和火作为一个生态系统过程之间的关系。