Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Climate change, pollinator declines and the human diet

贝尔蒙特论坛合作研究：气候变化、传粉媒介减少和人类饮食

• 批准号: 2020681
• 负责人: Samuel Myers
• 金额: $ 13万
• 依托单位: Harvard University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2020681&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Belmont; Forum; Collaborative; Research; Climate

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 55-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations focused on support for transdisciplinary approaches to global environmental change challenges and opportunities. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions.Working together in this Collaborative Research Action, the partner agencies have provided support to foster global transdisciplinary research teams of natural (including climate), health and social scientists and stakeholders from across the globe to improve understanding of climate, environment and health pathways to protect and promote health. The projects will provide crucial new understanding into the health implications arising from the impacts of climate change and variability on; 1) the quality/quantity of food, 2) chronic exposure to increases/changes in heat and humidity and 3) changes in the distribution and incidence of a range of infectious diseases and emergence of novel pathogens. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries to increase our knowledge of the complex linkages and pathways between the climate, environment and health to help solve complex challenges that face societies. The Micro-Poll seeks to develop a multidisciplinary understanding the impact of environmental change on pollinator communities and crop production and resilience in Nepal. Pollinator decline is predicted to have negative impacts on human health as key micronutrients in insect pollinated crops such as vitamin A and folate are lost from the diet. This “hidden hunger” is predicted to cause significant global health burdens. Pollinator loss disproportionately harms developing countries, as they are both less resilient to yield drops and more reliant on the micronutrients found in small-scale pollinator-dependent crops. Diversifying the diet by increasing access to micronutrient-rich fruits, vegetables and legumes may provide a long term, sustainable solution. The project will identify the crops providing key micronutrients and the dominant pollinators of these micronutrient-rich crops; investigate impact of change on key crop pollinators and the ensuing impact on crop production and micronutrient intake; and test the resilience of the insect pollination of micronutrient-rich crops. The project will work with local researchers and community organizations to carry-out the research and disseminate the findings to help decision-makers develop possible solutions to this challenge.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.

该奖项通过贝尔蒙特论坛，为参与由55个国家的全球变化研究倡议竞争性选择的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。 贝尔蒙特论坛是一个由研究供资组织组成的联合会，其重点是支持对全球环境变化挑战和机遇采取跨学科办法。 它的目的是通过调整和调动国际资源，加快提供最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴国家都在一个财团内为其研究人员提供资金，以减轻跨越国际边界的资金需求。这一方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对全球相关课题的优秀研究，最好通过多国方法来解决，认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。在这一合作研究行动中，伙伴机构共同努力，为培养全球自然科学跨学科研究团队提供支持。来自地球仪各地的科学家（包括气候科学家）、卫生和社会科学家以及利益攸关方，以增进对气候、环境和卫生途径的了解，保护和促进健康。这些项目将为气候变化和变异性对健康的影响提供重要的新认识：1）食物的质量/数量，2）长期暴露于热量和湿度的增加/变化，3）一系列传染病的分布和发病率的变化以及新病原体的出现。该奖项支持美国研究人员与来自至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成的财团合作，以增加我们对气候，环境和健康之间复杂联系和途径的了解，以帮助解决社会面临的复杂挑战。 微型民意调查旨在多学科地了解环境变化对尼泊尔传粉者社区和作物生产及复原力的影响。 据预测，授粉昆虫的减少将对人类健康产生负面影响，因为昆虫授粉作物中的关键微量营养素，如维生素A和叶酸，将从饮食中流失。据预测，这种“隐性饥饿”将造成重大的全球健康负担。传粉媒介的损失对发展中国家造成的伤害尤其严重，因为它们对产量下降的适应能力较低，而且更依赖于小规模传粉媒介依赖作物中的微量营养素。通过增加获得富含微量营养素的水果、蔬菜和豆类来实现饮食多样化，可能是一个长期、可持续的解决方案。 该项目将确定提供关键微量营养素的作物和这些富含微量营养素的作物的主要授粉者;调查变化对主要作物授粉者的影响以及随之对作物生产和微量营养素摄入的影响;并测试富含微量营养素的作物昆虫授粉的复原力。 该项目将与当地研究人员和社区组织合作，开展研究并传播研究结果，以帮助决策者制定应对这一挑战的可能解决方案。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Landscape composition and pollinator traits interact to influence pollination success in an individual‐based model

在基于个体的模型中，景观组成和传粉者特征相互作用，影响授粉成功

• DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.14353
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Functional Ecology
• 影响因子: 5.2
• 作者: Kortsch, Susanne;Saravia, Leonardo;Cirtwill, Alyssa R.;Timberlake, Thomas;Memmott, Jane;Kendall, Liam;Roslin, Tomas;Strona, Giovanni
• 通讯作者: Strona, Giovanni

What makes a good pollinator? Abundant and specialised insects with long flight periods transport the most strawberry pollen

什么是好的传粉者？

• DOI: 10.1002/2688-8319.12253
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Ecological Solutions and Evidence
• 影响因子: 2.9
• 作者: Villa‐Galaviz, Edith;Cirtwill, Alyssa R.;Gibson, Rachel;Timberlake, Thomas;Roslin, Tomas;Memmott, Jane
• 通讯作者: Memmott, Jane

A network approach for managing ecosystem services and improving food and nutrition security on smallholder farms

• DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10295
• 发表时间: 2022-01-10
• 期刊: PEOPLE AND NATURE
• 影响因子: 6.1
• 作者: Timberlake，Thomas P.;Cirtwill，Alyssa R.;Memmott，Jane
• 通讯作者: Memmott，Jane