Facilitating multi-plot trials to quantify habitat alteration on vertebrate bioindicators: snowmobile and ATV

促进多小区试验，以量化脊椎动物生物指标的栖息地改变：雪地摩托车和全地形车

• 批准号: 359279-2008
• 负责人: Otter, Kenneth
• 金额: $ 2.06万
• 依托单位: University of Northern British Columbia
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2007-01-01 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=365885
• 关键词: Facilitating; multi; plot; trials; quantify

This application outlines the need to acquire one two-seat ATV with equipment wagon and one two-seat, wide-track snowmobile for research on the impact of habitat alteration on river otters, chickadee species, moose and deer.  This work is conducted at the John Prince Research Forest (JPRF), Fort St. James, BC, a 13,000 ha working forest co-managed by UNBC and the Tl'atzt'en First Nation for sustainable logging.   The JPRF is funded through logging revenues, and has acquired a fishing resort to serve as a centrally-located field station.  The research forest contains a large mosaic of forest types and stand ages which are used for testing the interaction between resource management and the ecology of a number of bio-indicator wildlife species. The goal of this combined work is to determine the relative impact of human activities on the life-histories and ecology of a range of vertebrates.  By understanding how resource extraction affects resident species, we can better refine the land-management practices to achieve ecological sustainability.     The work we conduct requires travel to plots throughout the research forest, some of which are accessible by the limited number of logging roads in the region, but many of which are accessible only through trail or over-lake access.  Sites are separated by more than 10km in many circumstances, and the research requires visiting multiple sites per day.  We request all-terrain vehicles that can safely accommodate two researchers each in the winter (one snowmobile) and summer (one ATV).  Similar existing vehicles at the station are inadequate (single-passenger vehicles only) and are greater than 10 years old.  These vehicles are currently subject to frequent breakdown, and have significantly hampered our research in the past several years.  The requested infrastructure would be used to replace these vehicles, and would be actively utilized between three non-overlapping research projects that span more than 10 months of the year.

这份申请概述了需要购买一辆带设备的双座ATV和一辆双座宽轨雪地摩托，用于研究栖息地变化对河獭、山雀、驼鹿和鹿的影响。这项工作在不列颠哥伦比亚省圣詹姆斯堡的约翰·普林斯研究森林(JPRF)进行，这是一片占地13,000公顷的工作森林，由UNBC和TL‘atzt’en First Nation共同管理，用于可持续砍伐。*JPRF的资金来自伐木收入，并收购了一个渔业度假区作为位于中心的野外站。研究森林包含大量森林类型和林分年龄的马赛克，用于测试资源管理与一些生物指示野生动物物种的生态之间的相互作用。这项联合工作的目标是确定人类活动对一系列脊椎动物生活史和生态的相对影响。通过了解资源开采如何影响栖息物种，我们可以更好地改进土地管理做法，以实现生态可持续。他们表示，我们进行的工作需要前往整个研究森林的地块，其中一些可以通过该地区有限数量的伐木道路到达，但许多只能通过步道或越湖进入。在许多情况下，这些地点之间的距离超过10公里。研究需要每天访问多个地点。我们要求在冬季(一辆雪地摩托)和夏天(一辆ATV)分别安全地容纳两名研究人员的全地形车辆。空间站现有的类似车辆不够用(仅限单人车辆)，而且车龄超过10年。这些车辆目前经常出现故障，在过去几年里严重阻碍了我们的研究。我们要求的基础设施将用于更换这些车辆，并将在一年中跨越10个月以上的三个不重叠的研究项目之间积极利用。