Biocomplexity--Incubation Activity: Linking Large-Scale Hydrological and Biological Processes in Restoring Riparian Forest Ecosystems

恢复生态学家经常讨论景观水平的过程，如洪水和动物移动，在决定恢复成功方面的重要性，但很少使用对基本生态过程的理解来为土地管理者提供工具，以确定恢复工作的优先顺序。这项研究包括对人口、社区和生态系统过程的初步评估，这些过程调节了加州最大的河流萨克拉门托河沿岸森林生态系统恢复的动态。孵化活动将包括两部分。首先，现有数据将被用来模拟水文学、河岸植被和河岸鸟类群落之间的联系。这一模式将被用来评估不同规模的进程的重要性，并确定未来研究的优先领域。第二，将与其他科学家举行两次会议，这些科学家具有对水文学和生态演替之间的联系进行建模的经验和/或在将河岸恢复努力与生态系统动态联系起来方面具有重要专业知识的其他领域的专门知识，如鱼类生态学、营养循环和社会经济分析。这项研究将：(1)解决调节生态系统动态的尺度的基本问题，(2)帮助确定未来的实验和建模工作的优先顺序，以及(3)为土地管理者确定恢复战略的优先顺序提供指导。

0083450HollRestoration ecologists have often generally discussed the importance of landscape-level processes, such as flooding and animal movement, in determining restoration success, but have rarely used understanding of basic ecological processes to provide land managers with tools to prioritize restoration efforts. This research comprises an initial assessment of population, community, and ecosystem processes that regulate the dynamics of riparian forest ecosystem recovery along the Sacramento River, the largest river in California. Incubation activities will include two parts. First, existing data will be used to model linkages between hydrology, riparian vegetation, and riparian bird communities. This model will be used to assess the importance of processes at different scales and to prioritize areas for future research. Second, two meetings will be held with additional scientists who have experience modeling linkages between hydrology and ecological succession and/or have expertise in other areas that would be important in linking riparian restoration efforts and ecosystem dynamics, such as fish ecology, nutrient cycling and socioeconomic analysis. This research will: (1) address fundamental questions of the scales at which ecosystem dynamics are regulated, (2) help to prioritize future experimental and modeling efforts, and (3) provide guidance to land managers on prioritizing restoration strategies.