Freshwater Restoration Ecology

水源生态系统包括连接土地、水和人的小溪、临时水体和过渡环境。该研究项目在管理中经常被忽视，它将把这些关键环境与生态系统健康的概念化和生态系统服务的提供联系起来。这一具有国际特色的计划将涉及：(1)在现有知识库上进行强有力的数据合成；(2)采用分子到生态系统领域和实验室的方法来调查源头；(3)在科学-政策-实践的界面上测试恢复理论。对流域内和流域之间的属性进行网络分析，将为支持整个生态系统恢复的战略性真实世界试验的长期愿景提供信息，所有这些都在社会生态系统框架内。

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.