IRES: Sustainable Development of a Tropical Agroforestry Program in the Rural Borneo Highlands

IRES：婆罗洲高地农村热带农林业计划的可持续发展

• 批准号: 1658722
• 负责人: Kusum Naithani
• 金额: $ 3.1万
• 依托单位: University of Arkansas
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-06-01 至 2021-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1658722&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IRES; Sustainable; Development; Tropical; Agroforestry

This project will collect baseline ecological data to record the response of a degraded tropical forest in the Bornean highlands to the introduction of an agroforestry system. The highlands were returned to indigenous (Kadazan) persons in Malaysian Borneo following two clear-cuttings over the last century; and the agroforestry system is designed to restore the forest canopy. 11 undergraduate and 2 MS students from underrepresented groups in STEM disciplines will collect data in paid 8-week summer ecological field research experiences. Data include soil properties (organic matter, chemical content, pH, water holding capacity, fungi to bacteria ratio), arthropod diversity (beetles, ants and butterflies) and fructivorous and insectivorous bat communities. The data record ecological changes at producer sites and will be compared to sites at the same elevation in an adjacent and protected national forest range for ecological benchmarking. Benchmarking serves to help qualify agroforestry practices for international green product labelling, which would substantially elevate producer incomes. Results will improve scientific understanding of the linkages among ecological communities in tropical forests from soil to canopy; and, finally, students will gain professional experience in designing ecological field experiments, collecting and analyzing data, and communicating results to stakeholders from different cultures and academics at professional conferences.

该项目将收集基线生态数据，以记录婆罗洲高地退化的热带森林对采用农林系统的反应。在上个世纪两次砍伐之后，高地被归还给马来西亚婆罗洲的土著人（卡达赞人）;农林系统旨在恢复森林树冠。来自STEM学科代表性不足群体的11名本科生和2名MS学生将在为期8周的夏季生态实地研究经验中收集数据。数据包括土壤特性（有机质、化学成分、pH值、持水量、真菌与细菌的比例）、节肢动物多样性（甲虫、蚂蚁和蝴蝶）以及食果蝙蝠和食虫蝙蝠群落。这些数据记录了生产地点的生态变化，并将与相邻的受保护国家森林范围内相同海拔的地点进行比较，以确定生态基准。 制定基准有助于农林业做法符合国际绿色产品标签的要求，这将大大提高生产者的收入。结果将提高从土壤到树冠的热带森林生态群落之间的联系的科学认识;最后，学生将获得设计生态实地实验，收集和分析数据，并在专业会议上将结果传达给来自不同文化和学术界的利益相关者的专业经验。

项目成果

Recovery of soil microbial diversity and functions along a tropical montane forest disturbance gradient

• DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.853686
• 发表时间: 2022-09
• 作者: Renee Sniegocki;Jessica B. Moon;Abigail Rutrough;Jude Gireneus;J. Seelan;M. Farmer;D. Weindorf;K. Naithani