FSML: A New Generation of Integrated Fire Research Equipment for Archbold Biological Station

这一设施改进项目将为阿奇博尔德生物站的新一代更先进的通用消防设备提供支持。阿奇博尔德支持研究和教育，提供进入其全球重要灌木丛保护区的研究区域和生物的通道，该灌木丛保护区是美国最具特色的地区之一。这个残存的旱生生态系统位于佛罗里达半岛中部一条南北向狭窄的残留沙丘山脊上。它的特点是特有的灌木状灌木，适应干旱、养分贫乏的沙质土壤。火是灌丛中占主导地位的生态系统过程，具有极高的强度、斑块、多变的着火行为。阿奇博尔德提供了实验操作，通过大小规模的规定火来测试关于生态对火的反应的假说。规定的火灾计划使阿奇博尔德成为研究火灾生态学最令人兴奋和最有成效的野外站之一。阿奇博尔德的整个灌木丛生态系统都依赖于火，几乎所有的研究都依赖于一个积极有效的处方火计划。麦克阿瑟农业生态研究中心是阿奇博尔德的一个主要部门，位于一个4200公顷的养牛场，成立于1941年，是佛罗里达州中部的一个非营利性独立研究机构，致力于长期的生态研究。工作人员、访问调查人员和学生主要对威尔士湖山脉和邻近的佛罗里达州中部的生物和环境进行研究。研究的优势领域包括生态学和保护生物学，特别是长期过程。一个主要的重点是物种和火之间的关系，作为一个生态系统过程。

This facilities improvement project will support a new generation of more up-to-date general use fire equipment for Archbold Biological Station. Archbold supports research and education by providing access to study areas and organisms on its 2,000 ha globally significant scrub preserve, one of the most distinctive regions in the U.S. This remnant xeric ecosystem lies on a narrow, north-south ridge of relict, sandy dunes running down the center of the Florida peninsula. It is characterized by endemic shrubby scrubs, with adaptations to droughty, nutrient-poor sandy soils. Fire is the dominant ecosystem process in scrub, with extremely high intensity, patchy, variable fire behavior. Archbold provides experimental manipulation, through large and small-scale prescribed fire, to test hypotheses about ecological responses to fire. The prescribed fire program has made Archbold one of the most exciting and productive field stations for studying fire ecology. The entire scrub ecosystem at Archbold is fire-dependent, and virtually all research relies on an active and effective prescribed fire program. Prescribed grassland fires at the MacArthur Agro-ecology Research Center, a major division of Archbold at a 4,200 ha cattle ranch, are Archbold established in 1941, is a not-for-profit independent research facility in central Florida, dedicated to long-term ecological research. Staff, visiting investigators, and students conduct research primarily focused on the organisms and environments of the Lake Wales Ridge and adjacent central Florida. Areas of research strength include ecology and conservation biology, in particular long-term processes. A major emphasis is the relationship between species and fire as an ecosystem process.