Catalyst Project: Diversity of ecosystem services provisioning in coastal socio-ecological systems

催化剂项目：沿海社会生态系统生态系统服务提供的多样性

• 批准号: 1900819
• 负责人: Sigrid Smith
• 金额: $ 19.98万
• 依托单位: Delaware State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-06-15 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1900819&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Catalyst; Project; Diversity; ecosystem; services

Catalyst Projects provide support for Historically Black Colleges and Universities to work towards establishing research capacity of faculty to strengthen science, technology, engineering and mathematics undergraduate education and research. It is expected that the award will further the faculty member's research capability, and improve research and teaching at the institution. This project at Delaware State University will study ecosystem services for coastal ecosystems. Undergraduate students participate in this project as researchers. Ecosystem services, or the benefits that humans receive from ecosystems, are an important justification for conservation and restoration investments. However, past studies are conflicted regarding how to assess and when to expect synergies and tradeoffs among services. Further, few studies have examined these relationships in coastal socioecological systems. This project aims to quantitatively map a broad suite of services provided by Delaware's coastal ecosystems, including cultural services such as birding use, beach use, park use, boating; provisioning services, such as fisheries; and regulating and supporting services such as flood mitigation and biodiversity preservation. Spatial models for the total service delivery and diversity of service delivery will be developed based on biodiversity indices and compared at multiple spatial scales. In addition, service bundles or distinct groups of co-occurring services will be identified and examined across spatial scales and with different land uses using multivariate statistics. The project will contribute a general framework to evaluate the co-delivery of ecosystem services, and the project will provide an assessment of the delivery of services in highly valued coastal ecosystems.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.

催化剂项目为历史上的黑人学院和大学提供支持，努力建立教师的研究能力，以加强科学，技术，工程和数学本科教育和研究。预计该奖项将进一步提高教师的研究能力，并改善该机构的研究和教学。特拉华州州立大学的这个项目将研究沿海生态系统的生态系统服务。本科生作为研究人员参与该项目。生态系统服务或人类从生态系统获得的惠益是保护和恢复投资的重要理由。 然而，过去的研究是矛盾的，如何评估和何时预期协同作用和权衡服务。 此外，很少有研究探讨这些关系在沿海社会生态系统。 该项目的目的是定量绘制由特拉华州的沿海生态系统提供的一系列服务，包括文化服务，如观鸟使用，海滩使用，公园使用，划船;供应服务，如渔业;和调节和支持服务，如洪水缓解和生物多样性保护。 将根据生物多样性指数，建立服务提供总量和服务提供多样性的空间模型，并在多个空间尺度上进行比较。 此外，服务束或不同群体的共同出现的服务将确定和检查跨空间尺度和不同的土地使用，使用多元统计。 该项目将为评估生态系统服务的共同提供提供一个总体框架，该项目将对高价值沿海生态系统的服务提供进行评估。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。