Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: AWERRS Arctic Wetlands Ecosystems – Resilience through Restoration & Stewardship

该奖项为参与一个由9个国家倡议通过贝尔蒙论坛进行全球变化研究的竞争性项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙特论坛是一个研究资助组织联盟，代表55个国家，重点支持以跨学科方法应对全球环境变化的挑战和机遇。它的目的是通过协调和调动国际资源，加速开展最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除对可持续性的关键障碍。每个伙伴国都在一个联合体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。这种办法有助于有效地利用国家资源，支持对具有全球相关性的专题进行出色的研究，最好通过多国办法加以解决，同时认识到全球挑战需要全球解决办法。该奖项为美国研究人员在财团中进行合作提供支持，财团由至少三个参与国的合作伙伴组成。研究小组将探讨北极复原力的关键领域、理解和行动。学术和非学术知识系统的这种合作构成了一种跨学科的方法，不仅将促进对北极复原力基本原理的了解，而且还将刺激行动，为决策提供信息，并转化为复原力的解决方案。该项目寻求通过关注影响北极湿地生态系统的人类活动来应对在快速变化的北极建立复原力的挑战。该项目将支持和帮助社区加强其参与湿地恢复和管理的能力。在地方尺度上，湿地缓冲大量降水和积雪融化，过滤和储存水。它们为生物多样性提供了重要的栖息地，为候鸟物种提供了筑巢和繁殖区，为鱼类物种提供了产卵区。因此，它们支持传统生计活动，包括驯鹿饲养、狩猎和捕鱼、其他文化和娱乐活动以及旅游业。不太为人所知的是，完整的湿地储存了大量的全球碳。虽然湿地仅占地球陆地面积的3%左右，但据估计，湿地储存了全球陆地碳的20%--这是地球上最大的地区性碳储存。确定和测试加强当地社区和其他行为者参与北极湿地生态系统恢复和管理的方法，通过共同参与-以及通过改善湿地生态系统的弹性而获得的生态系统服务效益-帮助提高社区的韧性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 9-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations representing over 55 countries 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. 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. The research teams will address key areas of arctic resilience understanding and action. This collaboration of academic and non-academic knowledge systems constitutes a transdisciplinary approach that will advance not only understanding of the fundamentals of arctic resilience but also spur action, inform decision-making, and translate into solutions for resilience. The project seeks to address the challenge of building resilience in a rapidly changing Arctic by focusing on human activities that impact Arctic wetlands ecosystems. The project will support and help communities to strengthen their capacity to engage in wetlands restoration and stewardship. At a local scale, wetlands buffer heavy precipitation and snowmelt and filter and store water. They provide crucial habitat for biodiversity, providing nesting and breeding areas for migratory bird species and spawning areas for fish species. As such, they support traditional livelihoods activities including reindeer husbandry, hunting and fishing, other cultural and recreational activities, and tourism. Less widely known is that intact wetlands store a large amount of global carbon. While they make up only about 3% of the Earth's land area, wetlands store an estimated 20% of the worlds terrestrial carbon – the largest regional store of carbon on the planet. Identifying and testing approaches for strengthening the engagement of local communities and other actors in the restoration and stewardship of Arctic wetlands ecosystems helps increase community resilience though shared engagement - and through the ecosystem service benefits derived from improving wetlands ecosystems' resilience.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.