Efficient and sustainable use of floodplains for enhanced productivity

有效和可持续地利用洪泛区以提高生产力

• 批准号: 2285350
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: The Open University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2285350
• 关键词: Efficient; sustainable; use; floodplains; enhanced

Ancient woodlands are those woodlands which have been continuously forested for several centuries (a UK definition classifies woods over 400 years old as ancient). In the UK they have declined dramatically as farmland and urban development have increased. With an increasing urban population and a major demand for housebuilding, remaining ancient woodlands are coming under additional pressure from urban expansion. In Milton Keynes, a 'new town' constructed in the open countryside in the 1960s as the city has grown, three patches of ancient woodland have become surrounded by urban development, potentially isolating them and exposing them to environmental impacts from local warming and drought to increased nutrient deposition. This project aims to use these sites as experimental areas for the study of impacts of urbanisation on ancient woodlands that will have relevance to these important habitats across the UK and further afield. It will combine a range of techniques from ecology to landscape history and biogeochemistry to assess the consequences for ancient woodlands of being incorporated into the urban landscape. An important element of the project is establishing fixed monitoring sites as the foundation for long-term monitoring of environmental change in these urban woodlands. Ultimately it will seek to understand whether and how ancient woodlands can survive in the face of urban expansion and inform the emerging debate about land sparing and land sharing approaches to conservation in urbanising landscapes.

古老的林地是那些已经连续几个世纪被森林覆盖的林地（英国的定义将400年以上的森林归类为古老的）。在英国，随着农田和城市发展的增加，它们急剧下降。随着城市人口的增加和对房屋建筑的大量需求，剩余的古林地正面临城市扩张的额外压力。在米尔顿凯恩斯，一个“新城镇”在开放的农村建设在20世纪60年代随着城市的发展，三块古老的林地已经成为城市发展的包围，潜在的隔离，并暴露他们从当地变暖和干旱增加营养沉积的环境影响。该项目旨在利用这些地点作为实验区，研究城市化对古代林地的影响，这些林地将与英国和更远地区的重要栖息地有关。它将结合联合收割机一系列技术，从生态学到景观历史和地球化学，以评估将古代林地纳入城市景观的后果。该项目的一个重要内容是建立固定的监测点，作为长期监测这些城市林地环境变化的基础。最终，它将试图了解古老的林地是否以及如何在城市扩张中生存下来，并为正在出现的关于城市景观保护的土地节约和土地共享方法的辩论提供信息。