Anthropogenic impacts on community structure and function within intertidal ecosystems

人为对潮间带生态系统群落结构和功能的影响

• 批准号: RGPIN-2016-05506
• 负责人: Bendell, Leah
• 金额: $ 2.04万
• 依托单位: Simon Fraser University
• 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=632022
• 关键词: Anthropogenic; impacts; community; structure; function

The relationship between ecosystem function and community structure is complex and dynamic. Understanding the mechanisms underlying this complex interplay and how this relationship changes as we modify our environment is a challenging problem. This challenge is especially relevant now as anthropogenic activities such as climate change and pollution are rapidly altering aquatic and terrestrial communities and hence how nutrients and elements cycle through these systems. The maintenance of ecosystems is a requirement because as a society we are dependent on these systems for healthy soils, clean air and water.

生态系统功能与群落结构的关系是复杂的、动态的。理解这种复杂的相互作用背后的机制，以及这种关系在我们改变环境时如何变化，是一个具有挑战性的问题。这一挑战现在尤其重要，因为气候变化和污染等人为活动正在迅速改变水生和陆地群落，从而改变营养物质和元素在这些系统中的循环方式。维护生态系统是一项要求，因为作为一个社会，我们依赖这些系统来获得健康的土壤、清洁的空气和水。