I/UCRC Phase II: University of Idaho Membership in Center for Advanced Forestry Systems

I/UCRC 第二阶段：爱达荷大学先进林业系统中心成员资格

• 批准号: 1540045
• 负责人: Mark Coleman
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Idaho
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-01 至 2021-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1540045&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: UCRC; Phase; II; University; Idaho

Forest trees provide a wide range of traditional and advanced renewable materials including wood, paper, power, composites, polymers, and liquid fuels. Demand for these products is increasing due to population growth, increasing standards of living, and an increased recognition that forests will produce these products indefinitely if managers maintain the quality of soil in which trees are grown. Yet at as demand for renewable wood-based products increases, the commercial forest land base is shrinking. Meeting increased demands for raw wood products from a shrinking land base requires increased production capacity through advanced forestry practices. There is an important opportunity in the Inland Northwest (INW) where both the level of past investments and environmental constraints have limited gains in silvicultural systems. University of Idaho has joined nine other universities in the Center for Advanced Forestry Systems (CAFS) with the objective of educating a diversity of students to improve the productive capacity of our forests and meet societies increasing demand for future green, renewable products.Cooperative research links forest managers with universities to address a wide range of genetic and cultural problems. INW forest land managers are faced with numerous questions about constrains on forest productivity and the productive capacity of our forests under intense management regimes. The University of Idaho is uniquely situated in the region to address those questions in a rigorous and efficient manner. Such collaborative research programs solve problems that are most relevant to local land managers. Continued advancement requires work at the molecular to the ecosystems scales, and over an equally broad range of time scales considering the longevity of forest stand development. CAFS allows regional cooperative research programs to take advantage of progress made nationally to collectively advance forestry systems nationwide. Research will focus on increasing the carrying capacity of INW forests by studying the constraints to growth at high density and developing improved varieties for commercial reforestation. Recent advances in genomics may significantly shorten the tree breeding cycle allowing forest managers to apply genetic improvements to commercial forests much more quickly than previously possible. The exposure of industrial managers to a wider set of ideas leads to more rapid adoption of advanced technologies, which increases competitiveness of our forest products industries.

林木提供了广泛的传统和先进的可再生材料，包括木材、纸张、电力、复合材料、聚合物和液体燃料。由于人口增长，生活水平提高，以及人们越来越认识到，如果管理者保持种植树木的土壤质量，森林将无限期地生产这些产品，因此对这些产品的需求正在增加。然而，随着对可再生木质产品的需求增加，商品林的土地基础正在缩小。为了满足日益萎缩的土地对原木产品日益增长的需求，需要通过先进的林业做法来提高生产能力。在西北内陆地区有一个重要的机会，过去的投资水平和环境限制都限制了营林栽培系统的收益。爱达荷大学与其他九所大学一起参与了高级林业系统中心(CAFS)，目的是教育不同的学生提高我们森林的生产能力，满足社会对未来绿色、可再生产品日益增长的需求。合作研究将森林管理者与大学联系起来，解决广泛的遗传和文化问题。在西部，林地管理人员面临着许多问题，即在严格的管理制度下，对森林生产力和森林生产能力的限制。爱达荷大学在该地区独一无二，能够以严格和高效的方式解决这些问题。这样的合作研究项目解决了与当地土地管理者最相关的问题。要继续取得进展，就需要在分子尺度和生态系统尺度上开展工作，并考虑到森林林分发展的持久性，在同样广泛的时间尺度上开展工作。CAFS允许区域合作研究项目利用全国取得的进展，在全国范围内共同推进林业系统。研究将侧重于通过研究高密度生长的制约因素和开发商业再造林的改良品种来增加西部森林的承载能力。基因组学的最新进展可能会大大缩短树木育种周期，使森林管理者能够比以前更快地将遗传改良应用于商业森林。产业管理者接触到更广泛的思想，导致更快地采用先进技术，这增加了我们林产品行业的竞争力。