Freshwater Restoration Ecology

源头生态系统包括连接土地、水和人的小溪流、临时水体和过渡环境。在管理中经常被忽视，该研究计划将这些关键环境与生态系统健康和生态系统服务提供的概念化联系起来。这个国际独特的项目将涉及：(1)在现有知识库上进行强大的数据综合，(2)从分子到生态系统的领域和实验室方法来调查源头；(3)恢复理论在科学-政策-实践界面的检验。集水区内部和跨集水区属性的网络分析将为支持整个生态系统恢复的战略性现实世界实验提供长期愿景，所有这些都在社会生态系统框架内进行。

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.