REU Site: Mapping Beetles, Trees, Neighborhoods, and Policies: A Multi-Scaled, Urban Ecological Assessment of the Asian Longhorned Beetle Invasion in New England (HERO)

光肩星天牛（Anoplophora glabripennis）是一种入侵性蛀木昆虫，对新英格兰的城市森林构成严重威胁，因为它在入侵性森林害虫中是独一无二的，能够攻击多种树种。2008年至今，马萨诸塞州中部的亚洲天牛（ALB）侵扰对生态系统服务以及从联邦/州资源管理人员到当地居民的响应群体造成了更大的压力，由于有利宿主物种的优势和城市的良好相互联系的性质，农村森林，以及在联邦利益相关者邻里一级围绕如何处理和理解虫害的竞争性互动的存在。关于ALB在社会和生态层面的影响程度，存在大量未回答的问题。该REU站点更新项目建立在克拉克大学本科研究人员与人类环境区域观测站-马萨诸塞州（HERO-MA）土地变化/脆弱性研究计划12年成功合作的基础上，该计划遵循REU站点方法（Polsky等人，2007年）成立以来，并作为一个正式的REU网站自2008年以来。知识产权：甲虫影响评估流产生的空间和时间变化的有效措施，树木覆盖组成的ALB侵扰地区。该小组还评估了ALB对森林多样性和覆盖率的影响，目前和未来。地方制造评估小组评估管理和决策对社区关注的反应，以应对ALB的影响，在整个分析过程中涉及利益相关者。他们还根据社会经济地位、种族/民族和管理/治理制度来评估ALB的影响，以探讨作为ALB经验的结果，更积极参与的利益相关者群体将如何应对政策。该项目整体涉及本科生（重点是那些来自代表性不足的群体，在实施既定的研究设计，和学习成果的评估使用一个行之有效的方法在HERO-MA。预计将产生显著成果，为从业人员和经历城市森林丧失相关变化的城乡社区提供资源;预计将为学者和利益攸关方（例如，UDSA-APHIS、联邦/州/市/社区团体/民选官员）受众。

The Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) is an invasive wood-boring insect that is a grave threat to urban forests in New England, because it is unique among invasive forest pests for attacking a broad array of tree species. The 2008-present Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) infestation of central Massachusetts poses a greater stress on ecosystem services, as well as response groups ranging from federal/state resource managers to local residents, than any previous ALB outbreak in other localities due to the predominance of favorable host-species and the finely inter-connected nature of urban-rural forests as well as the presence of a competitive interaction at the federal-stakeholder-neighborhood level surrounding how the infestation should be treated and understood. Unanswered questions abound regarding the level of ALB impact at social and ecological levels. This REU Site renewal project is built on 12 years of success engaging undergraduate researchers at Clark University with the Human-Environment Regional Observatory--Massachusetts (HERO-MA) program on land change/vulnerability studies, which followed the REU Site approach (Polsky et al., 2007) since its inception, and as an official REU Site since 2008.Intellectual Merit: The Beetle Impact Assessment stream produces validated measures of spatial and temporal changes in tree cover composition in the ALB-infestation area. This team also evaluates impacts of ALB on forest diversity and cover at present and in the future. The Place-Making Assessment team assess management and policymaking responses to community concerns in response to ALB impacts, involving stakeholders throughout the analysis. They also evaluate ALB impacts by socio-economic status, race/ethnicity and management/governance regime to explore how a more engaged stakeholder group would respond to policy as a result of the ALB experience.Broader Impacts: This project integrally involves undergraduate students (with an emphasis on those from underrepresented groups in the implementation of established research design, and learning outcomes are assessed using a proven methodology within HERO-MA. It is expected to produce salient results that provide resources for practitioners and urban-rural communities experiencing changes associated with loss of urban forest; publications are expected to be produced for both scholarly and stakeholder (e.g., UDSA-APHIS, federal/state/municipal/community groups/elected officials) audiences.