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

0083450 HollRestoration生态学家经常讨论洪水和动物运动等破坏水平过程在确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优先恢复工作的工具。这项研究包括人口，社区和生态系统过程的初步评估，调节河岸森林生态系统恢复的动态沿着萨克拉门托河，在加州最大的河流。 孵化活动将包括两个部分。 首先，现有的数据将被用来模拟水文，河岸植被和河岸鸟类群落之间的联系。 该模型将用于评估不同规模的过程的重要性，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，这些科学家具有水文学和生态演替之间联系建模的经验和/或在其他领域具有专长，这些领域对于将河岸恢复工作与生态系统动态联系起来非常重要，如鱼类生态学、营养循环和社会经济分析。 这项研究将：（1）解决生态系统动态调节尺度的基本问题，（2）帮助优先考虑未来的实验和建模工作，（3）为土地管理者提供优先恢复策略的指导。

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.