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

REU 站点：绘制甲虫、树木、社区和政策地图：对新英格兰亚洲长角甲虫入侵的多尺度城市生态评估 (HERO)

• 批准号: 1156935
• 负责人: John Rogan
• 金额: $ 33万
• 依托单位: Clark University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-04-15 至 2016-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1156935&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Mapping; Beetles; Trees

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.

亚洲长角甲虫（Anoplophora glabripennis）是一种入侵的蛀木昆虫，对新英格兰的城市森林构成严重威胁，因为它是入侵森林害虫中独一无二的，可以攻击大量树种。2008年至今，亚洲长角甲虫（ALB）在马萨诸塞州中部的侵扰给生态系统服务带来了更大的压力，也给从联邦/州资源管理者到当地居民的响应团体带来了更大的压力。由于有利的寄主物种占主导地位，城乡森林紧密相连的性质，以及在联邦-利益相关者-社区层面围绕如何处理和理解虫害的竞争相互作用的存在，比以往任何其他地区的ALB爆发都要严重。关于ALB在社会和生态层面的影响程度，有很多悬而未决的问题。这个REU站点更新项目是建立在Clark大学的本科生研究人员与马萨诸塞州人类环境区域观测站（HERO-MA）的土地变化/脆弱性研究项目12年的成功基础上的，该项目自成立以来一直遵循REU站点方法（Polsky等人，2007），并自2008年以来成为正式的REU站点。知识价值：甲虫影响评估流程产生了白桦侵扰地区树木覆盖组成的时空变化的有效措施。该小组还评估了ALB对目前和未来森林多样性和覆盖的影响。地方制定评估小组评估管理和政策制定对社区关注的反应，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，以探索一个更积极参与的利益相关者群体将如何根据ALB的经验对政策作出反应。更广泛的影响：该项目全面涉及本科生（重点是那些在实施既定研究设计中代表性不足的群体），并使用HERO-MA中经过验证的方法评估学习成果。预计将产生显著成果，为经历与城市森林丧失有关的变化的从业人员和城乡社区提供资源；预计将为学术和利益相关者（例如，UDSA-APHIS，联邦/州/市/社区团体/民选官员）的读者编写出版物。