LTER: CAP V: Investigating how relationships between urban ecological infrastructure and human-environment interactions shape the structure and function of urban ecosystems

人类日益成为城市物种，因此城市生态系统极为重要。城市是能源和资源的集中消费者和各种废物的生产者，但它们也是社交网络、创新、效率和解决方案的中心。中亚利桑那州-凤凰城长期生态研究计划(CAP V)是一个研究项目，包括来自不同学科的科学家，专注于将城市理解为混合生态系统，包括环境和人类成分，以及它们之间的相互作用。经过25年的创新研究，对城市生态系统的理解仍然是第五次气候变化会议的中心重点。人类的动机、行为、行为和结果与城市生态系统结构和功能的相互联系导致了这个项目要解决的一个基本问题。城市生态基础设施如何调节人与环境的相互作用，以塑造过去、现在和未来的生态系统功能？这个项目将进一步表明，我们如何利用这些关系的知识，为更公正、更具变革性和更可持续的未来提供信息。更广泛的社会影响被有意纳入第五次履约协助方案研究，许多活动涉及与从业者和社区的明确伙伴关系，这些从业者和社区历来对其城市和环境的未来几乎没有发言权。这项工作在社会生态研究成果、城市机构和社区之间形成了转换链接，最终目标是使凤凰城乃至整个城市成为更好和更可持续的居住场所。CAPP研究将扩展其对城市生态基础设施(UEI)理论的关注，将其作为系统生物物理和人类/社会领域之间的重要桥梁。CAP研究人员将继续探索居住景观、城市水体、沙漠公园和保护区的跨学科城市生态，同时研究整个大都市凤凰城地区的植物、动物、气候、城市设计和治理。新的研究举措将包括对环境正义和公平以及城市空气质量的关注。这项研究将在服务不足和历史上被忽视的社区，包括当地土著社区，发展知识和解决方案。第五章的研究围绕五个跨学科领域展开：1)生态系统结构和功能和生物地球化学循环；2)适应和生态进化动力学；3)城市气候和空气质量；4)城市自然和人类的感知、决策和福祉；5)环境正义、治理和变革的未来。在过去25年的CAP研究背景下调查这些问题，将指导CAP研究努力为美国城市和我们日益城市化的社会迈向更可持续和更具弹性的未来。该奖项由环境生物学部门和行为与认知科学部门联合资助。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。

Humankind is increasingly an urban species and urban ecosystems are therefore profoundly important. Cities are concentrated consumers of energy and resources and producers of various wastes, but they are also centers of social networks, innovation, efficiency, and solutions. The Central Arizona–Phoenix Long Term Ecological Research program (CAP V) is a research project that includes scientists from a variety of disciplines focused on understanding cities as hybrid ecosystems including both environmental and human components, and their interactions. Understanding urban ecosystems remains the central focus of CAP V after 25 years of innovative research. The interconnectedness of human motivation, behavior, actions, and outcomes with urban ecosystem structure and function leads to a fundamental question addressed by this project. How have/are human-environment interactions mediated by urban ecological infrastructure to shape past, present, and future ecosystem functions? This project will further indicate how we can use knowledge of these relationships to inform more just, transformative, and sustainable futures. Broader societal impacts are intentionally integrated in CAP V research, with many activities involving explicit partnerships with practitioners and communities that historically have had little voice in the future of their city and environment. This work forms a translational link among social-ecological research outcomes, city institutions, and communities with the goal of ultimately making Phoenix, and cities in general, better and more sustainable places to live. CAP research will extend its focus on the theory of Urban Ecological Infrastructure (UEI) as a critical bridge between the system’s biophysical and human/social domains. CAP researchers will continue to explore interdisciplinary urban ecology in residential landscapes, urban waterbodies, desert parks and preserves, while examining the plants, animals, climate, urban design and governance across the metropolitan Phoenix region. New research initiatives will include a focus on environmental justice and equity, as well as urban air quality. The research will develop both knowledge and solutions in underserved and historically neglected communities, including local Indigenous communities. CAP V research is organized around five interdisciplinary areas: 1) ecosystem structure and function and biogeochemical cycling; 2) adaptation and eco-evolutionary dynamics; 3) urban climate, and air quality; 4) urban nature and human perceptions, decisions, and wellbeing; and 5) environmental justice, governance, and transformative futures. Investigating these questions, in the context of the previous 25 years of CAP research, will guide the CAP research endeavor towards more sustainable and resilient futures for U.S. cities and for our increasingly urban society.This award is jointly funded by the Division of Environmental Biology and the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences.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.