Freshwater Restoration Ecology

水源生态系统包括小溪流、临时水体和连接土地、水和人的过渡环境。 在管理中经常被忽视，这项研究计划将这些关键环境连接到生态系统健康的概念化和生态系统服务的提供。 这一国际独特的计划将涉及：（1）在现有知识基础上进行强大的数据综合，（2）采用分子到生态系统的实地和实验室方法来调查水源;（3）在科学-政策-实践界面上测试恢复理论。集水区内部和跨集水区的属性网络分析将为战略性现实世界实验的长期愿景提供信息，这些实验将在社会生态系统框架内支持整个生态系统的恢复。

Headwater ecosystems comprise small streams, temporary waterbodies and transitional environments that connect land, water and people. Often overlooked in management, this research program will connect these critical environments to conceptualizations of ecosystem health and provisioning of ecosystem services. This internationally-distinct program will involve: (1) robust data syntheses on existing knowledge bases,(2) a molecules-to-ecosystems field and lab approach to investigating headwaters; and(3) testing of restoration theory at science-policy-practice interfaces. Network analyses of attributes within and across catchments will inform a long-term vision for strategic real-world experimentation that underpins whole-ecosystem recovery, all within a socio-ecological systems framework.