IMUA III: Pacific High Island Evolutionary Biogeography: Impacts of Invasive Species, Anthropogenic Activity and Climate Change on Hawaiian Focal Species

IMUA III：太平洋高岛进化生物地理学：入侵物种、人类活动和气候变化对夏威夷重点物种的影响

• 批准号: 0903833
• 负责人: Donald Straney
• 金额: $ 2000万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0903833&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IMUA; III; Pacific; Island; Evolutionary

Proposal Title: IMUA III: Pacific High Island Evolutionary Biogeography: Impacts of Invasive Species, Anthropogenic Activity and Climate Change on Hawaiian Focal Species Institution: University of HawaiiGoals: This project seeks to enhance the sustainability of Hawaii?s science and technology capabilities for understanding and predicting the impact of invasive species, anthropogenic activities, and climate change on the biodiversity, and ecosystem of the islands. The project also seeks to provide information on the current or potential future use of endemic Hawaiian species (endemic species are defined as any species in Hawaii and any species used by early Hawaiian society to define Hawaii?s place in the natural landscape) with a goal of sustaining focal species of historical importance to the original human inhabitants of Hawaii. The Environmental Dynamics and Ecosystem Responses (ENDER) project component was designed to develop a collaborative research network to address the environmental changes occurring throughout the Hawaiian archipelago in all ecosystems and across temporal and spatial scales. This component seeks to develop research synergy across climatic and other environmental gradients on the Big Island and eventually expanding their study to all of Hawaii and the Pacific. The Ecological Genomics and Metabolomics (ECOGEM) project component will identify endemic plant and animal species along two environmental transects (the ridge to reef across various microclimes of the Big Island and from the Big Island to Kure Atoll) along with other transects and examine the focal species for genetic and metabolic adaptive responses. Results of these studies will be important for the understanding of both short-term and long-term changes in Hawaiian ecosystems, and will contribute to understanding the impacts of human activities on tropical ecosystems world-wide. Intellectual MeritThis project significantly enhances the research competitiveness of Hawaii by building capacity in areas that support the state?s innovation goals. The key areas include expanding the speed and capability of cyber-connectivity; establishing comprehensive data management, advanced data visualization, and modeling capabilities; integrating existing and new geo-spatially referenced data sets related to ecological functionality and genomic and metabolomics of endemic, heritage and invasive species; and educating a new and ethnically diverse generation of citizens trained in science and technology.Broader ImpactsThis project will impact the diversity of the environmental sciences communities by engaging Native Hawaiian and students from Pacific Island cultures in the design and execution of modern scientific and technological research demonstrating that modern science and traditional cultural practices need not be incompatible. The inclusion of guidance from diverse cultures in the design and execution of the STEM activities that are important to the society within which those activities occur can serve as a prototype of science-community relationships throughout the world.

提案标题：IMUA III：太平洋高岛进化生物地理学：入侵物种、人为活动和气候变化对夏威夷焦点物种制度的影响 夏威夷大学目标：该项目旨在提高夏威夷的可持续性？在了解和预测入侵物种、人类活动和气候变化对岛屿生物多样性和生态系统的影响方面，该项目还寻求提供关于夏威夷特有物种目前或未来潜在用途的信息（特有物种的定义是夏威夷的任何物种和早期夏威夷社会用来定义夏威夷的任何物种？的地方在自然景观）的目标是维持焦点物种的历史重要性，原来的人类居民的夏威夷。环境动态和生态系统反应项目的组成部分旨在建立一个合作研究网络，以应对整个夏威夷群岛所有生态系统以及跨时间和空间尺度发生的环境变化。这一部分旨在发展大岛上气候和其他环境梯度的研究协同作用，并最终将其研究扩大到整个夏威夷和太平洋。生态基因组学和代谢组学项目的组成部分将查明两个环境断面（从大岛各种小气候的山脊到珊瑚礁以及从大岛到Kure环礁）沿着其他断面沿着特有动植物物种，并检查重点物种的遗传和代谢适应性反应。这些研究的结果对于了解夏威夷生态系统的短期和长期变化都很重要，并将有助于了解人类活动对全球热带生态系统的影响。智力优势这个项目通过在支持国家的领域建立能力，大大提高了夏威夷的研究竞争力？的创新目标。关键领域包括扩大网络连接的速度和能力;建立全面的数据管理、先进的数据可视化和建模能力;整合现有的和新的地理空间参考数据集，这些数据集与地方性、遗产和入侵物种的生态功能以及基因组和代谢组学有关;并教育接受科学技术培训的新一代种族多元化公民。更广泛的影响该项目将影响环境科学界的多样性通过让夏威夷土著人和来自太平洋岛屿文化的学生参与现代科学和技术研究的设计和执行，表明现代科学和传统文化习俗并非不相容。 在设计和执行对开展这些活动的社会很重要的STEM活动时，纳入来自不同文化的指导，可以成为全世界科学界关系的原型。