Canada Research Chair in Polar and Boreal Ecology

加拿大极地和北方生态学研究主席

• 批准号: 1000229065-2012
• 负责人: Lecomte, Nicolas
• 金额: $ 7.29万
• 依托单位: Université de Moncton
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Canada Research Chairs
• 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=643092
• 关键词: Canada; Research; Chair; Polar; Boreal

Polar and boreal ecosystems are experiencing unprecedented human-induced impacts, both directly (industrial development) and indirectly (climate change). Such perturbations raises questions with respect to the fate of arctic predators, and to the functioning of arctic food webs subject to global disturbances. To unravel the key mechanisms of changes, the International Polar Year demonstrated the importance of long-term studies to detect the direction of change, combined with short-term studies of mechanisms, together with broad-scale approaches to assess the generality of these mechanisms. With the intensity of perturbations in the Arctic, the Chair is devoted to investigate such critical questions.

极地和北方生态系统正经历着人类造成的前所未有的直接影响(工业发展)和间接影响(气候变化)。这种扰动引发了有关北极捕食者的命运以及北极食物网在全球动荡中发挥作用的问题。为了揭示变化的主要机制，国际极地年展示了长期研究以确定变化方向的重要性，并结合对机制的短期研究以及评估这些机制的一般性的广泛方法。由于北极的扰动非常剧烈，主席致力于调查这些关键问题。