LTER: FCE III - Coastal Oligotrophic Ecosystems Research

佛罗里达沿海大沼泽地（FCE）长期生态研究（LTER）网站旨在了解全球气候变化和水资源管理方法的转变如何影响佛罗里达大沼泽地和该地区的600万居民。 通过对佛罗里达湾的淡水湿地、红树林沼泽和浅海草群落进行长期研究，FCE LTER采用长期数据集来确定流经大沼泽地的淡水的数量和质量如何影响沿海区的生态过程。 这些关键过程包括为大沼泽地和佛罗里达人提供饮用水的淡水含水层的再水化，以及减缓海平面上升和风暴破坏的沿海系统的碳积累。 耦合的社会经济研究揭示了如何决定大沼泽地恢复的影响-并受到影响-人类历史的依赖当地的自然资源。该项目还将解决在海平面上升的情况下这些资源的可持续性问题。FCE LTER致力于与联邦、州和地方政府机构建立伙伴关系，为大沼泽地恢复科学创造一个重要的中心，并为科学成功地融入恢复政策创造一个全球范例。该计划同样致力于通过门户网站，视频，演示文稿和出版物教育各级公众;通过培训研究生成为专业科学家;并通过在南佛罗里达少数民族社区的K-12教育计划。FCE LTER在国际上进行合作，以了解其他大型湿地的大沼泽地，并在复杂的变化条件下研究新兴社会生态系统的动态和特性。

The Florida Coastal Everglades (FCE) Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) site seeks to understand how global climate change and shifting approaches to water management impact the Florida Everglades and the 6 million residents in the region. By conducting extended-duration research in freshwater wetlands, mangrove swamps and shallow seagrass communities of Florida Bay, the FCE LTER employs long-term datasets to determine how the amount and quality of fresh water flowing through the Everglades influences ecological processes in the coastal zone. These key processes include rehydration of the freshwater aquifer, which supplies the Everglades and Floridians with potable water, and carbon accretion, which buffers coastal systems from sea level rise and storm damage. Coupled socio-economic studies reveal how decisions about Everglades restoration influence - and are influenced by - the human history of dependence on local natural resources. The project will also address the sustainability of these resources in the face of sea level rise. The FCE LTER is dedicated to partnerships with federal, state and local government agencies, creating a critical hub for Everglades restoration science and a global example for the successful conveyance of science into restoration policy. The program is similarly dedicated to educating all levels of the public via a web portal, videos, presentations and publications; by training graduate students to be professional scientists; and through K-12 education programs in the south Florida majority-minority community. The FCE LTER collaborates internationally to understand the Everglades in the context of other large wetlands, and to examine the dynamics and properties of emergent socio-ecological systems under complex conditions of change.