Evaluating Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning Relationships in Marine Seafloor Habitats

评估海洋海底栖息地的生物多样性与生态系统功能关系

• 批准号: RGPIN-2017-04642
• 负责人: Snelgrove, Paul
• 金额: $ 2.91万
• 依托单位: Memorial University of Newfoundland
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=631670
• 关键词: Evaluating; Biodiversity; Ecosystem; Functioning; Relationships

Increasing pressures to extract ocean resources will demand new strategies to sustain ocean life and the associated functions (processes) and services (e.g. food production) on which our planet depends. My Discovery Grant research will focus on understanding biodiversity and ecosystem function linkages in marine seafloor habitats. This work will advance ideas that form the basis of ongoing student projects, integrating complementary observation and experimental work on the specific functions of nutrient and carbon cycling, habitat provisioning, and food web support. Published theory links biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, but requires field verification of the ideas and essential processes, particularly in oceans.

开采海洋资源的压力越来越大，需要新的战略来维持海洋生命以及我们星球所依赖的相关功能（过程）和服务（例如粮食生产）。我的发现补助金研究将侧重于了解海洋海底栖息地的生物多样性和生态系统功能联系。这项工作将推进构成正在进行的学生项目基础的想法，整合关于营养和碳循环、栖息地供应和食物网支持的特定功能的补充观察和实验工作。已发表的理论将生物多样性和生态系统功能联系起来，但需要对想法和基本过程进行实地验证，特别是在海洋中。