Collaborative Research: Disturbance and productivity as drivers of plant-pollinator diversity and function across scales

合作研究：干扰和生产力作为植物传粉者多样性和跨尺度功能的驱动因素

• 批准号: 1256788
• 负责人: Jonathan Myers
• 金额: $ 7.79万
• 依托单位: Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-03-15 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1256788&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Disturbance; productivity; drivers

Despite the importance of wildfires in natural ecosystems, neither ecologists nor land managers fully understand how wildfire shapes biodiversity and ecosystem services across natural landscapes that vary in productivity. In this collaborative project, three early-career investigators will integrate field sampling, experiments, and modeling to understand how wildfires influence plant-pollinator networks in the Northern Rocky Mountains. The study will extend local plant-pollinator dynamics to regional scales across a productivity gradient, and will leverage a 30-year record of wildfires to investigate dynamics over longer periods than are possible using short-term experiments. The combination of broad spatial analyses with longer temporal records will provide unique insights into how wildfire shapes biodiversity and important ecosystem services across complex landscapes. Billions of dollars are spent annually to suppress wildfires to protect the livelihoods of human societies within fire-prone landscapes. Simultaneously, huge investments are devoted to restoring fire without clear understanding of how it influences ecological interactions and the essential ecosystem services they provide. Results from this project will directly inform land management policy. The researchers will work closely with managers to develop and implement feasible forest management programs to optimize biodiversity and ecosystem function across complex environmental gradients. Courses in fire ecology and null models, a special session of the Montana Forest Restoration Committee, and mentorship of Hopa Mountain Native Science Fellows are planned in order to bring together diverse perspectives in ecology, management, policy, and native cultures. Students and a post-doctoral researcher will be involved in both research and outreach with government agencies, land managers, and the public. Together, this interdisciplinary team is poised to build relationships critical for solving some of the most pressing environmental issues at the interface of ecology and society.This project is jointly funded by the Population and Community Ecology Program and the Office of the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).

尽管野火在自然生态系统中很重要，但生态学家和土地经理都没有完全了解野火如何塑造生产力各不相同的自然景观中的生物多样性和生态系统服务。在这个合作项目中，三名早期职业研究人员将整合现场采样，实验和建模，以了解野火如何影响北部落基山脉的植物 - 授粉网络。这项研究将将局部植物 - 托管动力学扩展到生产率梯度的区域尺度，并利用30年的野火记录来研究比使用短期实验可能更长的时间。广泛的空间分析与较长的时间记录的结合将为野火如何塑造生物多样性和重要景观的重要生态系统服务提供独特的见解。每年花费数十亿美元来抑制野火，以保护容易发生的景观中人类社会的生计。 同时，巨额投资致力于恢复火灾，而没有明确了解其如何影响生态互动和他们提供的基本生态系统服务。该项目的结果将直接为土地管理政策提供信息。研究人员将与经理们紧密合作，以开发和实施可行的森林管理计划，以优化复杂环境梯度的生物多样性和生态系统功能。为了将生态，管理，政策和本地文化的各种观点汇集在一起​​，计划将消防生态学和无效模型的课程，蒙大拿州森林修复委员会的特别会议以及霍普山本地科学研究员的指导。学生和博士后研究人员将与政府机构，土地经理和公众一起研究和宣传。该跨学科团队共同建立了与生态和社会界面上一些最紧迫的环境问题至关重要的关系。该项目由人口和社区生态计划以及刺激竞争性研究的实验计划的办公室共同资助（EPSCOR）。