Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Understanding and managing the Impacts of Invasive alien species on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

贝尔蒙特论坛合作研究：了解和管理外来入侵物种对生物多样性和生态系统服务的影响

• 批准号: 1852326
• 负责人: Bethany Bradley
• 金额: $ 9万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-05-01 至 2023-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1852326&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Belmont; Forum; Collaborative; Research; Understanding

Innovative research on the complex interaction of socio-economic and global environmental trends on biodiversity and ecosystem services is needed to help develop more informative scenarios for addressing environmental and human development challenges. To overcome these challenges coupled natural-human systems approaches and analyses are needed. These provide improved scenarios of biodiversity and ecosystem services that couple the outputs of direct and indirect drivers such as land use, invasive species, overexploitation, biodiversity, environmental change, and pollution. The resulting models provide a methodological state-of-the art that results in more accurate quantitative assessments, better land use, and more effective ecosystem services. Employing this methodology, this research, which is an international coalition between US scientists and those from four European nations, seeks to predict new invasions of terrestrial plants and marine organisms that are linked to climate change in North America and Europe ecosystems. This is important because invasive alien species are significant drivers of species extinction and ecosystem degradation. Thus, their introduction into a new environment, almost always, negatively impacts ecosystem services and human well-being. This research targets climate change as a driver because there is now significant documentation that a large number of species' ranges are shifting in response to warming temperatures. This creates a type of invasion that is different from that caused by physical transportation via anthropological or other means. Prevention and/or containment of new species invasions is the first and most effective stage of invasive species management. However, it is only effective if potential invaders can be identified and prioritized for management before they arrive. Goals of this research are to identify likely terrestrial plan and marine organism species invasions and develop scenarios to prevent them via a participatory process that brings together scientists and stakeholders. Results of the work will include a searchable database of potential invaders and their probable ecological and socio-economic impacts to help managers and policymakers to prioritize high-risk species for intervention. Broader impacts of the work include research that supports proactive regulation and management of problematic alien invasive species, particularly those expected to invade and spread across the United States and Europe, as the climate changes. Broader impacts of the work include international collaboration between the US and France, Germany, Spain, and Switzerland. Each country will fund the component of the work carried out by its scientists. The project has strong societal benefits because invasive species have serious impacts economically and environmentally, as well as in terms of ecosystems and different regions maintaining beneficial biodiversity. Results of the project will help policy makers, industry, and other interested parties better understand possible implications of such invasions and more effectively and efficiently explore possible mitigation practices and policies. The Program notes the project is attentive to gender issues and the impact it has on broadening participation by having a gender-balanced team (4 female and 4 male PIs). It also has a strong transdisciplinary student training component.This award supports US researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a coalition of 26 funding agencies from 23 countries through the Belmont Forum call for proposals on "Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services". The call was a multilateral initiative designed to support research projects that contribute to the development of scenarios, models, and decision-support tools for understanding and solving critical issues facing our planet. The goal of the competition was to improve and apply participatory scenario methods to enhance research relevance and its acceptance and to address gaps in methods for modelling impact drivers and policy interventions. It was also to develop and communicate levels of uncertainty associated with the models, to improve data accessibility and fill gaps in knowledge. Using this methodology, this research seeks to understand and anticipate the multi-faceted impacts of invasive alien species on biodiversity and ecosystem services and to provide tools for their management. The US component of this international collaboration focuses on predicting impacts of alien invasive and native range-shifting species. Tasks include the creation of a database of the ecological and socio-economic impacts of 100 terrestrial plants and 250 marine species. Data will be supplemented with additional empirical data from field experiments of high priority, yet presently understudied, invasive aquatic species. The resulting data will be used, in conjunction with an existing international protocol (the Environmental Impact Classification of Alien Taxa; EICAT), to examine the potential impacts of invasive terrestrial plants and marine organisms on native communities, agricultural systems, and human health. The assessment protocol will be adapted to consider both detrimental and beneficial impacts. Spatial planning tools will be used to evaluate the costs and benefits of different management and policy scenarios for preventing and mitigating invasions. Results of the analysis will be used to develop scenarios and models of biodiversity and ecosystem services to inform resource managers and policy makers about possible management of invasive species across multiple ecosystems and geographic scales.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

需要对社会经济和全球环境趋势在生物多样性和生态系统服务方面的复杂相互作用进行创新研究，以帮助制定更多信息的情景，应对环境和人类发展挑战。为了克服这些挑战，需要结合自然-人类系统的方法和分析。这些方案提供了更好的生物多样性和生态系统服务情景，将土地使用、入侵物种、过度开发、生物多样性、环境变化和污染等直接和间接驱动因素的产出结合起来。由此产生的模型提供了一种最先进的方法，可以实现更准确的定量评估，更好的土地利用和更有效的生态系统服务。采用这种方法，这项研究是美国科学家和来自四个欧洲国家的科学家之间的国际联盟，旨在预测与北美和欧洲生态系统气候变化有关的陆地植物和海洋生物的新入侵。这一点很重要，因为外来入侵物种是物种灭绝和生态系统退化的重要驱动因素。因此，将其引入新环境几乎总是对生态系统服务和人类福祉产生负面影响。这项研究将气候变化作为一个驱动因素，因为现在有大量的文件表明，大量物种的范围正在随着气温的升高而变化。这造成了一种入侵，不同于通过人类学或其他手段的物理运输造成的入侵。预防和/或遏制新物种入侵是入侵物种管理的第一阶段，也是最有效的阶段。然而，只有在潜在入侵者到达之前就能识别并优先进行管理，这才是有效的。这项研究的目标是确定可能的陆地计划和海洋生物物种入侵，并制定方案，以防止他们通过一个参与性的过程，汇集了科学家和利益相关者。这项工作的成果将包括一个可搜索的潜在入侵者及其可能的生态和社会经济影响数据库，以帮助管理人员和政策制定者优先考虑高风险物种进行干预。这项工作的更广泛影响包括支持对有问题的外来入侵物种进行积极监管和管理的研究，特别是随着气候变化，预计将入侵并蔓延到美国和欧洲的物种。这项工作的更广泛影响包括美国与法国、德国、西班牙和瑞士之间的国际合作。每个国家都将资助本国科学家开展的部分工作。该项目具有很强的社会效益，因为入侵物种在经济和环境方面以及在生态系统和保持有益生物多样性的不同地区方面产生严重影响。该项目的结果将帮助政策制定者、工业界和其他有关各方更好地了解这种入侵的可能影响，并更有效地探索可能的缓解措施和政策。该方案指出，该项目关注性别问题，并通过建立一个性别平衡的团队（4名女性和4名男性项目执行干事），对扩大参与产生影响。该奖项支持美国研究人员参与一个项目，该项目由来自23个国家的26个资助机构通过贝尔蒙特论坛征集关于“生物多样性和生态系统服务情景”的提案。该呼吁是一项多边倡议，旨在支持有助于制定情景、模型和决策支持工具的研究项目，以了解和解决我们星球面临的关键问题。竞赛的目的是改进和应用参与式情景方法，以提高研究的相关性及其接受程度，并解决影响驱动因素和政策干预建模方法方面的差距。它还将确定和传达与模型相关的不确定性水平，以改善数据的可获得性并填补知识空白。利用这种方法，本研究旨在了解和预测入侵外来物种对生物多样性和生态系统服务的多方面影响，并为其管理提供工具。这项国际合作的美国部分侧重于预测外来入侵和本地范围转移物种的影响。任务包括建立一个关于100种陆地植物和250种海洋物种的生态和社会经济影响的数据库。数据将补充额外的经验数据，从外地实验的高度优先，但目前研究不足，入侵水生物种。由此产生的数据将与现有的国际协议（外来生物分类的环境影响分类; EICAT）一起使用，以检查入侵陆地植物和海洋生物对本地社区，农业系统和人类健康的潜在影响。将对评估协议进行调整，以考虑有害和有益的影响。空间规划工具将用于评估预防和减轻入侵的不同管理和政策方案的成本和效益。分析结果将用于开发生物多样性和生态系统服务的情景和模型，为资源管理者和政策制定者提供关于跨多个生态系统和地理尺度入侵物种的可能管理的信息。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

项目成果

Identifying high-impact invasive plants likely to shift into northern New England with climate change

识别可能随着气候变化转移到新英格兰北部的高影响入侵植物

• DOI: 10.1017/inp.2021.10
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Invasive Plant Science and Management
• 影响因子: 1.1
• 作者: Coville, William;Griffin, Bridget J.;Bradley, Bethany A.
• 通讯作者: Bradley, Bethany A.

Breaking down barriers to consistent, climate‐smart regulation of invasive plants: A case study of US Northeast states

打破对入侵植物进行一致、气候智能监管的障碍：美国东北部各州的案例研究

• DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.4014
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Ecosphere
• 影响因子: 2.7
• 作者: Bradley, Bethany A.;Beaury, Evelyn M.;Fusco, Emily J.;Munro, Lara;Brown‐Lima, Carrie;Coville, William;Kesler, Benjamin;Olmstead, Nancy;Parker, Jocelyn
• 通讯作者: Parker, Jocelyn

Supporting proactive management in the context of climate change: prioritizing range-shifting invasive plants based on impact

支持气候变化背景下的主动管理：根据影响优先考虑范围转移的入侵植物

• DOI: 10.1007/s10530-020-02261-1
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Biological invasions
• 影响因子: 2.9
• 作者: Mei Rockwell-Postel, Brittany B.