LTER: FCE III - Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystems Research

佛罗里达海岸大沼泽地（FCE）长期生态研究（LTER）站点旨在了解全球气候变化和水管理方法的转变如何影响佛罗里达大沼泽地和该地区的600万居民。FCE LTER通过对佛罗里达湾的淡水湿地、红树林沼泽和浅层海草群落进行长时间的研究，利用长期数据集来确定流经沼泽地的淡水的数量和质量如何影响沿海地区的生态过程。这些关键过程包括淡水含水层的再水化，它为大沼泽地和佛罗里达人提供饮用水，以及碳的增加，它缓冲了沿海系统免受海平面上升和风暴破坏的影响。结合社会经济研究揭示了关于大沼泽地恢复的决定如何影响——以及如何受到——依赖当地自然资源的人类历史的影响。该项目还将在海平面上升的情况下解决这些资源的可持续性问题。FCE LTER致力于与联邦、州和地方政府机构建立伙伴关系，为大沼泽地恢复科学创造一个重要的中心，并成为成功将科学转化为恢复政策的全球范例。该计划同样致力于通过门户网站、视频、演示文稿和出版物对各级公众进行教育；培养研究生成为专业科学家；并通过南佛罗里达多数少数族裔社区的K-12教育项目。FCE LTER在国际上开展合作，在其他大型湿地的背景下了解大沼泽地，并研究复杂变化条件下新兴社会生态系统的动态和特性。

The Florida Coastal Everglades (FCE) Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site seeks to understand how global climate change and shifting approaches to water management impact the Florida Everglades and the 6 million residents in the region. By conducting extended-duration research in freshwater wetlands, mangrove swamps and shallow seagrass communities of Florida Bay, the FCE LTER employs long-term datasets to determine how the amount and quality of fresh water flowing through the Everglades influences ecological processes in the coastal zone. These key processes include rehydration of the freshwater aquifer, which supplies the Everglades and Floridians with potable water, and carbon accretion, which buffers coastal systems from sea level rise and storm damage. Coupled socio-economic studies reveal how decisions about Everglades restoration influence - and are influenced by - the human history of dependence on local natural resources. The project will also address the sustainability of these resources in the face of sea level rise. The FCE LTER is dedicated to partnerships with federal, state and local government agencies, creating a critical hub for Everglades restoration science and a global example for the successful conveyance of science into restoration policy. The program is similarly dedicated to educating all levels of the public via a web portal, videos, presentations and publications; by training graduate students to be professional scientists; and through K-12 education programs in the south Florida majority-minority community. The FCE LTER collaborates internationally to understand the Everglades in the context of other large wetlands, and to examine the dynamics and properties of emergent socio-ecological systems under complex conditions of change.