Urban Environmental Science

城市环境科学

• 批准号: CRC-2017-00193
• 负责人: Johnson, Marc
• 金额: $ 8.74万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Canada Research Chairs
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=654740
• 关键词: Urban; Environmental; Science

Our planet is an increasingly urbanized landscape with 55% of the world's population and 82% of Canadians residing in cities. Cities represent novel ecosystems with no natural analog, in which urbanization causes increased pollution, warmer temperatures, greater impervious surface cover, fragmentation of natural habitats and homogenization of biotic communities. Marc Johnson's research asks: Can species adapt to these urban environments, and what are the ecosystem-level effects of urban evolution? Through the combination of genomics and statistical modelling with large-scale experiments, this work will establish how the evolution and ecology of species contribute to the sustainability of urban environments.

我们的星球是一个日益城市化的景观，55%的世界人口和82%的加拿大人居住在城市。城市代表着一种全新的生态系统，在这种生态系统中，城市化导致污染加剧、气温升高、不透水地表覆盖面积扩大、自然栖息地破碎化和生物群落同质化。马克·约翰逊的研究提出了这样一个问题：物种能否适应这些城市环境？城市进化对生态系统的影响是什么？通过将基因组学和统计模型与大规模实验相结合，这项工作将确定物种的进化和生态如何对城市环境的可持续性做出贡献。