BIOCOMPLEXITY--Incubation Activity: Development of an Integrated Research Plan for Analyzing the Viability of a Marine Reserve Network

将举行一系列的三个车间,设计开发一个跨学科研究的珊瑚礁生态系统的生存能力强人为压力。将以在巴哈马建立一个新的海洋保护区网络作为个案研究，试图确定哪些具体的保护区实施和额外的分区政策对维持整个网络的生态系统功能最为重要。在这样做的过程中，对海洋学和生物过程的研究将成为设定环境限制的基础，而对人类资源使用情况的调查将被用来模拟管理备选办法。来自统计学、海洋学建模、种群遗传学、海洋生态学、理论种群生物学、人类学和经济学等学科的参与者将齐聚一堂，分析跨重要时空尺度整合理论和经验信息的方法。根据讲习班的结果，将编写和分发一份完整的讨论报告，并编写教育材料（特别是针对巴哈马教师和美国研究生）。

A series of three workshops will be held and are designed to develop an interdisciplinary study of the viability of coral reef ecosystems under strong anthropogenic stress. Using the establishment of a new marine reserve network in the Bahamas as a case study, an attempt will be made to determine which specific reserve implementations and additional zoning policies are most important for maintaining ecosystem function across the network. In doing so, the study of oceanographic and biological processes will be the basis for setting contextual limits, and investigation of resource use by humans will be used to model management options. Participants from such disciplines as statistics, oceanographic modeling, population genetics, marine ecology, theoretical population biology, anthropology, and economics will be brought together tol analyze ways to integrate theoretical and empirical information across important spatial and temporal scales. Based on the results of the workshops, a complete report of discussions will be created and distributed and educational materials (especially for Bahamian teachers and U.S. graduate students) will be developed.