PIRE: Assembly of Marine Biodiversity Along Geographic and Anthropogenic Stress Gradients

印度尼西亚位于珊瑚三角的中心，该地区拥有世界上生物多样性最丰富的珊瑚礁。这些珊瑚礁是当地和全球极其重要的生物和经济资源，但受到人类影响和气候变化的严重威胁；因此，这些珊瑚礁是重要的保护目标。我们将部署一种名为自主珊瑚礁监测结构(ARMS)的新型监测工具，以测量整个印度尼西亚群岛的海洋生物多样性梯度，并确定这些珊瑚礁上存在哪些生物，以及这种生物多样性如何受到人类造成的环境压力的影响。武器特别擅长捕获隐藏的生物多样性，包括绝大多数海洋生物多样性(例如，病毒、微生物、小型动物、藻类等)。有了这些信息，我们将能够更好地了解珊瑚三角海洋生物多样性的形成过程，从而提高资源管理者制定战略以促进这些宝贵海洋生态系统可持续性的能力。该项目的一个关键创新是，它将在一个国际合作框架内进行，该框架将提高世界上人口最多的发展中国家之一印度尼西亚的当地科学能力，同时培养美国博士后学者、研究生和本科生，使其成为海洋生物多样性科学的全球领导者，能够在世界上最多样化的海洋环境中进行国际研究。该项目由美国国家科学基金会国际科学与工程办公室(OISE)通过PERE提供资金。

Indonesia is in the center of the Coral Triangle, a region that contains the world's most biologically diverse coral reefs. These reefs are an extremely important biological and economic resource locally and globally, but are severely threatened by human impacts and climate change; as such, these reefs are important conservation targets. We will be deploying a novel monitoring tool called Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) to measure marine biodiversity gradients across the Indonesian Archipelago and determine what organisms are present on these reefs and how this biodiversity is impacted by human caused environmental stress. ARMS are particularly good at capturing the hidden biodiversity that comprises the vast majority of marine biodiversity (e.g., viruses, microbes, smaller animals, algae etc). With this information, we will be able to better understand the processes shaping the marine biodiversity in the Coral Triangle, thereby improving the ability of resource managers to develop strategies to promote sustainability of these valuable marine ecosystems. A key innovation of this project is that it will be conducted in an international collaborative framework that increases local scientific capacity in Indonesia, one of the world's most populous developing countries, while simultaneously preparing U.S. post-doctoral scholars, graduate and undergraduate students to be global leaders in the science of marine biodiversity, capable of international research in the world's most diverse marine environments. The project is funded by NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) through the PIRE.