Integrating Biodiversity and Biogeochemical Dynamics from a Hydrodynamics Perspective: Long-Term Ecological Research in the Luquillo Mountains

从流体动力学角度整合生物多样性和生物地球化学动力学：卢基约山脉的长期生态研究

• 批准号: 1354040
• 负责人: Michael Willig
• 金额: $ 8.03万
• 依托单位: University of Connecticut
• 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: 2013-09-15 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1354040&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integrating; Biodiversity; Biogeochemical; Dynamics; Hydrodynamics

The Luquillo Long Term Ecological Research project has examined environmental drivers of biodiversity dynamics and biogeochemical cyles in a tropical, montane forest for over 28 years. This proposal funds planning meetings to bring project participants together to develop future research directions that arise from syntheses of their long-term data, are motivated by strong linkages to ecological theory, and that are widely applicable to other tropical, forested, montane regions. The resulting research agenda will be broadly applicable across LTER sites as it will encompass ecosystems that include a complex mixture of pristine and highly urbanized and suburbanized habitats. A second goal will be to design research to understand ecological dynamics in light of disturbance regimes that are dominated by changes in both land use and climate. The proposed planning meetings will include graduate students and postdoctoral researchers together with research scientists and information managers. Engaging early-career students and researchers in the process of research design and proposal development is an important aspect of comprehensive education and training. Students will be recruited from under-represented groups, which are abundantly represented in Puerto Rico. Over a longer term, the research directions developed will strengthen the Luquillo Forest's connections with other major projects in Puerto Rico, such as NEON, STREON, IGERT, CZO, and ULTRA-Ex. Moreover, the project's Schoolyard program reaches teachers and hundreds of middle and high school students through field research and web-based middle school curricula.

28年来，卢基洛长期生态研究项目研究了热带山地森林中生物多样性动态和生物地球化学循环的环境驱动因素。这项提案为规划会议提供资金，以便将项目参与者聚集在一起，制定未来的研究方向，这些方向来自于他们的长期数据的综合，受到与生态理论的强烈联系的推动，并且广泛适用于其他热带、森林和山地地区。由此产生的研究议程将广泛适用于LTER遗址，因为它将涵盖包括原始生境和高度城市化和郊区化生境的复杂混合的生态系统。第二个目标将是设计研究，根据土地利用和气候变化主导的干扰制度来了解生态动态。拟议的规划会议将包括研究生和博士后研究人员以及研究科学家和信息管理人员。让初出茅庐的学生和研究人员参与研究设计和提案制定的过程是全面教育和培训的一个重要方面。学生将从代表性不足的群体中招收，这些群体在波多黎各有大量代表。从长远来看，制定的研究方向将加强卢基洛森林与波多黎各其他主要项目的联系，如NEON、STREON、IGERT、CZO和ULTRA-Ex。此外，该项目的校园计划通过实地研究和基于网络的中学课程接触到教师和数百名初中生。