BIOCOMPLEXITY - INCUBATION ACTIVITY: Examining Emergent Behaviors of Landscapes Using an Integrated Process-based Perspective

这个项目将研究水流、火、风和其他干扰如何在森林景观中相互作用。这项工作将包括探索景观的各个部分（元素）如何通过这些过程联系在一起。研究结果将用于开发一个总体框架来分析和预测景观的行为。这个框架将把发生在一个地方的过程与那些连接地方的过程分开。后一组过程可用于定义景观与生态系统的行为。该框架将改变科学家和管理者的观点，从将景观视为元素模式的观点转变为将景观视为过程之间的相互作用根据景观元素的排列而变化的观点。前一种观点强调模式，而后者强调过程。该项目不仅将促进对景观生物复杂性的科学理解，而且还将使土地管理者能够以适当的规模和可持续的方式管理自然资源。

0083452HarmonThis project will investigate how processes such as water flow, fire, wind, and other disturbances interact in a forested landscape. The work will involve an exploration of how parts of landscape (elements) are linked together by these processes. The results will be used to develop a general framework to analyze and predict the behaviors of landscapes. This framework will separate processes that occur in a place versus those that link places. The latter set of processes can be used to define landscape versus ecosystem behavior. The framework will change perspectives of scientists and managers from one in which landscapes are viewed as patterns of elements to a perspective in which landscapes are viewed as places where interactions among processes vary according to the arrangement of landscape elements. The former view emphasizes pattern, whereas the latter emphasizes processes. This project will not only advance scientific understanding of the biocomplexity of landscapes, but will also allow land managers to manage natural resources at appropriate scales and in a sustainable manner.