Determinants of Biodiversity, Social and Economic Patterns in Montane EcoÐystems

9554501斯坦福大学提出了一个试点项目，以启动所需的多学科研究，以确定长期经济增长和生态系统完整性的可持续性之间的联系和冲突。实现这一目标的工具是一个由大约80名科学家组成的实验合作组织，名为北温带山地生态系统研究联盟。该小组由蒙大拿大学、蒙大拿州立大学和参与机构的学者组成。相关土地管理机构的成员和知情的公民将向该联盟提供建议。现有的和新的基础研究工作将围绕一个共同的、综合的搜索主题在联合体的保护伞下合并。审查生物多样性的模式和过程，包括区域生态系统范围内的自然、社会和经济属性，是统一的原则。工作的重点将是大陆之冠(CCE)和大黄石生态系统(GYE)。Gye和CCE代表着世界温带地区最大、相对完整的生态系统。它们是蒙大拿州“天然”生态系统的最后遗迹之一，环绕着山脉和河谷，那里的海拔、气候和相关的梯度导致了动物、植物和人类群落的多样化聚集。由于人口和经济模式的转变，这两个生态系统在地方和区域范围内正迅速受到人类影响的影响。生物多样性统一器将用于指导完成综合综合所需的大量区域数据库的组装、分析和建模，从长远来看，综合综合将提供对当前做法和政策造成的未来条件的预测。该联盟的主要目标是充分了解自然和社会组成部分之间的联系和冲突，以便开始预测这两个极具价值的生态系统内部和之间的环境和社会变化的长期和短期后果。

9554501 Stanford A pilot project to initiate multidisciplinary research needed to determine links and conflicts between long-term economic growth and sustainability of ecosystem integrity is proposed. The vehicle to accomplish this end is an experimental collaboration of some 80 scientists called the Consortium for Study of North Temperate Montane Ecosystems. The group is composed of scholars at The University of Montana, Montana State University and participating institutions. The Consortium will be advised by members of relevant land management agencies and informed citizens. Existing and new basic research efforts will coalesce under the Consortium umbrella around a common, integrativeresearch theme. Examination of biodiversity patterns and processes, including natural, social and economic attributes in a regional ecosystem context, is the unifying principle. Work will be focused on the Crown of the Continent (CCE) and Greater Yellowstone Ecosystems (GYE). The GYE and CCE represent the largest, relatively intact ecosystems in temperate latitudes of the world. They are among the last vestiges of "natural" Montana ecosystems and encompass mountains and river valleys where altitudinal, climatic and associated gradients lead to a diverse assemblage of animals, plants and human communities. Both ecosystems are rapidly becoming affected by human influences at local to regional scales as a consequence of shifting demographic and economic patterns. The biodiversity unifier will be used to guide assembly, analysis and modeling of massive regional data bases required to accomplish an integrated synthesis that, in the long run, will offer predictions about future conditions as a consequence of current practices and policies. The primary goal of the Consortium is to sufficiently understand linkages and conflicts between natural and social components to begin to predict the long- and short-term consequences of environmental and social change within and between these two enormously valuable ecosystems.