Kelp forest ecosystems near and far: Putting a new theory explaining dynamic ecological systems to the test

远近的海带森林生态系统：对解释动态生态系统的新理论进行测试

• 批准号: FT0991953
• 负责人: Prof Sean Connell
• 金额: $ 56.26万
• 依托单位: The University of Adelaide
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: ARC Future Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2010-02-27 至 2016-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/FT0991953
• 关键词: Kelp; forest; ecosystems; near; far

Few, if any, ecological models account for the biological diversity and observed vulnerability of ecosystems, from the molecular to the oceanic scale. This project aims to investigate kelp forests in ways that integrate previously disparate approaches to the study of ecosystems in order to prove the value of a novel framework for understanding how broad-scale and local phenomena interrelate to maintain the diversity and function of ecosystems or to provoke their decline, transition or collapse. This new conceptualisation of ecosystem processes will assist in forecasting the consequences of their management and the effects of external stimuli on normally robust systems.

从分子到海洋尺度，几乎没有任何生态模型考虑到生物多样性和观察到的生态系统脆弱性。该项目旨在调查海带森林的方式，整合以前不同的方法来研究生态系统，以证明一个新的框架的价值，了解大规模和地方现象如何相互关联，以保持生态系统的多样性和功能，或引发其衰退，过渡或崩溃。生态系统过程的这一新概念将有助于预测其管理的后果以及外部刺激对正常稳健系统的影响。