Confer:Earth Stewardship Initiative: A national network of ecologists develop research using designed experiments for Portland's Green Infrastructure Implementation and performance

随着人口增长、快速城市化和气候变化威胁人类和自然系统，更好地理解和塑造城市是当务之急。塑造城市的实践者，包括建筑师、景观设计师和城市设计师，正在越来越多地建设生态景观。然而，实践者使用的生态数据或先例有限，因为城市景观很少被规划来促进生态系统功能，而生态学家仍然处于设计过程的边缘。为了发展生态学家和城市从业者之间的合作，我们开发了地球管理倡议示范项目(ESI)。ESI是一个动态的跨学科合作框架，旨在促进生态研究在城市设计和管理中的整合。该计划为生态学家和设计师提供了一个培训论坛，让他们通过合作框架在现实世界的项目中工作。ESI举例说明了生态学家如何利用应用生态学在设计过程中发挥积极作用来塑造城市生态系统。该计划将生态学家及其研究方法嵌入到一个基于社区的规划项目中，共同调查生态在塑造为人和生态系统服务的城市中的作用。总体而言，ESI在一个论坛上展示了土地规划项目如何作为可操作科学的样板？城市的生态？该奖项将支持美国生态学会S 2017年年会(8月6日至11日)在俄勒冈州波特兰举行的第三个地球管理倡议(ESI)示范项目。ESI从全国各地征集研究生研究员，与城市官员、从业人员和ESA高级科学家在大型土地规划项目上进行合作。参与者在城市设计过程中合作，以产生可持续的设计战略，并通过设计的实验和其他适应性管理工具提出改进这些项目的方法。波特兰在实施绿色基础设施(GI)方面处于全国领先地位，并凭借在GI设计、实施、监控、维护和社区参与方面的丰富经验，建立了覆盖全市的绿色网络。该团队将与波特兰市S环境服务局合作，评估波特兰？S GI的设计和实施实践。在城市尺度上，该小组将评估一系列变量，包括地理信息对径流和水质的影响；植被的价值？特别是树木和植物健康；以及衬里生物保留池的设计和维护。在更大的范围内，该小组将使用波特兰流域健康指数检查流域健康，并确定流域健康的适应性管理和公共沟通的机会。会议结束后，该团队将为未来的工作制定一份白皮书，其中包括设计性实验和适应性监测和管理战略。

With population growth, rapid urbanization, and climate change threatening human and natural systems, it is imperative to better understand and shape cities. Practitioners shaping cities, including architects, landscape architects and urban designers, are increasingly building ecological landscapes. However, practitioners work with limited ecological data or precedents, since urban landscapes have rarely been planned to promote ecosystem functions and ecologists remain peripheral to the design process. To develop a collaboration between ecologists and city practitioners, we have developed the Earth Stewardship Initiative Demonstration Project (ESI). ESI is a dynamic framework for transdisciplinary collaboration to foster the integration of ecological research in designing and managing cities. The program serves as a training forum for ecologists and designers to work on real world projects through a collaborative framework. ESI illustrates by example how ecologists can shape urban ecosystems based on a proactive role in the design process using applied ecology. The program embeds ecologists and their research methods within a community-based planning project to co-investigate the role of ecology in shaping cities that work for people and ecosystems. Overall, ESI demonstrates how land planning projects can serve as models for actionable science in a forum where ?ecology for the city? is prioritized.This award will support the third Earth Stewardship Initiative (ESI) Demonstration Project at the Ecological Society of America?s 2017 annual meeting (August 6th ?11th) in Portland, Oregon. ESI solicits graduate student fellows from around the country to collaborate with city officials, practitioners, and ESA senior scientists on large-scale land planning projects. Participants collaborate in an urban design process to generate sustainable design strategies and propose ways of improving these projects through designed experiments and other adaptive management tools. Portland is a national leader in implementing green infrastructure (GI), and has established a city-wide green network drawing on considerable experience with GI design, implementation, monitoring, maintenance, and community engagement. Working with the City of Portland?s Bureau of Environmental Services, the team will evaluate Portland?s GI design and implementation practices. At the city scale, the team will assess a range of variables, including effects of GI on streamflow and water quality; the value of vegetation ? especially trees and plant health; and design and maintenance of lined bioretention basins. At a larger scale, the team will examine watershed health using the Portland Watershed Health Index, and identify opportunities for adaptive management and public communication of watershed health. After the meeting, the team will generate a white paper for future work including designed experiments and adaptive monitoring and management strategies.