FSML Planning Grant for a Major New Land Addition at Archbold Biological Station

该奖项支持Archbold生物站的战略规划，该站最近通过大量私人捐赠扩大了土地所有权。Archbold成立于1941年，是一家致力于长期生态研究的非营利性研究机构。工作人员，访问调查人员和学生进行研究集中在威尔士湖岭，佛罗里达州中部的环境。研究优势领域是种群和保护生物学，强调局部和区域尺度上的生态变化，以及当地物种的人口变化。除了研究用途外，Archbold还大量用于访问课程的教育，并拥有自己活跃的K-12课程。由于大量的私人捐赠，车站的面积将增加70%。新增加的土地，包括灌木丛栖息地和大面积改良的牧场，应该允许该站在恢复生态学的长期研究等领域启动新的研究项目。利用该奖项提供的资金，该站将制定一个长期计划，用于未来的研究、土地管理和新收购的教育用途。作为这项工作的一部分，将收集现有资料，并将其放入包含当前和历史遗址资料的地理信息系统中。将举办三个规划讲习班：一个研究和土地管理讲习班、一个教育讲习班和一个单独的财务计划讲习班。专业小组将把研讨会的成果汇编成保护区的研究和土地管理、教育和财政计划，包括2年、5年和10-20年的目标、目的、成功的衡量标准和5年的实施时间表。这些图则除了用于电台的管理外，还将通过网络和其他分发方式向公众提供。

This award supports strategic planning for Archbold Biological Station which has recently expanded its land holdings through a significant private donation. Archbold was established in 1941 as a not-for-profit research institution dedicated to long-term ecological research. Staff, visiting investigators, and students conduct research focused on the environments of the Lake Wales Ridge, central Florida. Areas of research strength are population and conservation biology, emphasizing ecological changes over local and regional scales, and demographic shifts in local species. In addition to research use, Archbold is used heavily for education by visiting classes and has its own active K-12 program. As the result of a large private donation, the area of the station will increase by 70%. The new land addition, which includes scrub habitat and extensive improved pasture, should allow the station to initiate new research programs in areas such as long-term studies in restoration ecology. With the funds provided through this award, the station will develop a long-term plan for future research, land management and education use of the new acquisition. As part of this effort, existing information will be collected, and placed in a geographic information system containing both current and historical site information. Three planning workshops will be held: a Research and Land Management Workshop, an Education Workshop, and a separate Financial Plan workshop. The PI will compile workshop results into a Research and Land Management, Education and Financial Plans for the Reserve including 2, 5 and 10-20 yr goals, objectives, measures of success, and a 5-year implementation timetable. Besides being used for management of the station, the plans will be made available to the public using the web and other distribution means.