IMUA III: Pacific High Island Evolutionary Biogeography: Impacts of Invasive Species, Anthropogenic Activity and Climate Change on Hawaiian Focal Species

提案名称：IMUA III：太平洋高岛进化生物地理学：入侵物种、人类活动和气候变化对夏威夷焦点物种的影响机构：夏威夷大学目标：该项目旨在提高夏威夷的可持续性。了解和预测入侵物种、人为活动和气候变化对岛屿生物多样性和生态系统影响的科学技术能力。该项目还寻求提供有关夏威夷特有物种（特有物种是指夏威夷的任何物种和早期夏威夷社会用来定义夏威夷的任何物种）的当前或潜在未来使用的信息。（在自然景观中的位置），目标是维持对夏威夷原始人类居民具有历史重要性的焦点物种。环境动力学和生态系统响应（ENDER）项目组成部分旨在开发一个合作研究网络，以解决整个夏威夷群岛所有生态系统中发生的环境变化，并跨越时间和空间尺度。这个组成部分寻求在大岛的气候和其他环境梯度中发展研究协同作用，并最终将他们的研究扩展到整个夏威夷和太平洋。生态基因组学和代谢组学（ECOGEM）项目组成部分将沿两个环境样带（大岛不同小气候的山脊到珊瑚礁以及从大岛到Kure环礁）以及其他样带识别特有植物和动物物种，并检查焦点物种的遗传和代谢适应反应。这些研究结果对于了解夏威夷生态系统的短期和长期变化具有重要意义，并有助于了解人类活动对全球热带生态系统的影响。该项目通过在支持该州的领域建立能力，显著提高了夏威夷的研究竞争力。S创新目标。关键领域包括扩大网络连接的速度和能力；建立全面的数据管理、先进的数据可视化和建模能力；整合地方性、遗产和入侵物种的生态功能、基因组和代谢组学相关的现有和新的地理空间参考数据集；并教育在科学和技术方面受过训练的新一代种族多样化的公民。更广泛的影响本项目将通过吸引夏威夷原住民和来自太平洋岛屿文化的学生参与现代科学和技术研究的设计和执行，从而影响环境科学界的多样性，证明现代科学和传统文化实践不一定是不相容的。在STEM活动的设计和执行中纳入来自不同文化的指导，对这些活动所在的社会很重要，可以作为全世界科学界关系的原型。

Proposal Title: IMUA III: Pacific High Island Evolutionary Biogeography: Impacts of Invasive Species, Anthropogenic Activity and Climate Change on Hawaiian Focal Species Institution: University of HawaiiGoals: This project seeks to enhance the sustainability of Hawaii?s science and technology capabilities for understanding and predicting the impact of invasive species, anthropogenic activities, and climate change on the biodiversity, and ecosystem of the islands. The project also seeks to provide information on the current or potential future use of endemic Hawaiian species (endemic species are defined as any species in Hawaii and any species used by early Hawaiian society to define Hawaii?s place in the natural landscape) with a goal of sustaining focal species of historical importance to the original human inhabitants of Hawaii. The Environmental Dynamics and Ecosystem Responses (ENDER) project component was designed to develop a collaborative research network to address the environmental changes occurring throughout the Hawaiian archipelago in all ecosystems and across temporal and spatial scales. This component seeks to develop research synergy across climatic and other environmental gradients on the Big Island and eventually expanding their study to all of Hawaii and the Pacific. The Ecological Genomics and Metabolomics (ECOGEM) project component will identify endemic plant and animal species along two environmental transects (the ridge to reef across various microclimes of the Big Island and from the Big Island to Kure Atoll) along with other transects and examine the focal species for genetic and metabolic adaptive responses. Results of these studies will be important for the understanding of both short-term and long-term changes in Hawaiian ecosystems, and will contribute to understanding the impacts of human activities on tropical ecosystems world-wide. Intellectual MeritThis project significantly enhances the research competitiveness of Hawaii by building capacity in areas that support the state?s innovation goals. The key areas include expanding the speed and capability of cyber-connectivity; establishing comprehensive data management, advanced data visualization, and modeling capabilities; integrating existing and new geo-spatially referenced data sets related to ecological functionality and genomic and metabolomics of endemic, heritage and invasive species; and educating a new and ethnically diverse generation of citizens trained in science and technology.Broader ImpactsThis project will impact the diversity of the environmental sciences communities by engaging Native Hawaiian and students from Pacific Island cultures in the design and execution of modern scientific and technological research demonstrating that modern science and traditional cultural practices need not be incompatible. The inclusion of guidance from diverse cultures in the design and execution of the STEM activities that are important to the society within which those activities occur can serve as a prototype of science-community relationships throughout the world.