RAPID Collaborative Research: Resilient and resistant urban forests: the role of landscape configuration and socioeconomic legacy in understanding tree response to hurricane

飓风“厄玛”在佛罗里达州造成严重的风灾和洪灾。对城市森林的破坏很普遍。许多树被连根拔起或失去了叶子和树枝。与之前的风暴一样，伊尔玛造成的树木破坏不太可能在各个社区都受到影响。由于城市森林提供了许多重要的服务，了解导致社区之间影响差异的原因对恢复至关重要。破坏模式可能取决于与建筑物的接近程度和存在的物种。管理做法以及平均家庭收入和住房年龄可能也很重要。因此，该项目的目标是了解当地生态、社会和经济状况与飓风“厄玛”对城市森林造成的严重破坏之间的关系。“厄玛”为了解城市森林如何受到飓风的影响提供了一个独特而紧迫的机会，使社区能够更好地预测树木损失可能高的地方。这将为未来的风暴事件提供更好的准备和有效的恢复计划。演讲和研讨会将为城市规划者和树木护理专业人员提供信息，帮助改善城市森林设计、树木风险评估和风暴管理工作。该项目将提供一个机会，直接评估城市树冠对飓风的反应，以及与生物物理和社会特征相关的树木损害差异。该项目将建立在现有测量的基础上，利用风暴前几个月在佛罗里达州坦帕、盖恩斯维尔和橙县获得的现场库存数据。将重新访问现场地块，以获得风暴后评估树木破坏的数据。这些数据将与风暴前后获得的遥感数据以及人口普查数据一起使用，以确定社会经济背景。实地测量、普查数据和遥感数据产品的结合将有助于推断社会经济和森林结构因素与树木衰竭之间的关系。这些发现和预测将直接解决关于城市森林生态系统在面对未来干扰情景时如何改变的更大规模问题。该项目还将改进对飓风对城市森林的总体影响的估计，使决策者能够做出更好的决策来管理这一重要资源的生态系统服务。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Hurricane Irma caused severe wind and water damage across Florida. Damage to urban forests was widespread. Many trees were uprooted or lost leaves and limbs. As in previous storms, tree damage from Irma is unlikely to be felt equally across communities. Since urban forests provide many important services, understanding what causes differences in impacts between communities is critical to recovery. Patterns of damage may depend on proximity to buildings and which species were present. Management practices, as well as average household income and age of housing, are also likely to be important. Therefore, the goal of this project is to understand how local ecological, social and economic conditions relate to the severity of damage to urban forests from Hurricane Irma. Irma provides a unique and urgent opportunity to learn how urban forests are affected by hurricanes, allowing communities to better predict where tree loss may be high. This will lead to better preparation and effective recovery plans for future storm events. Presentations and workshops will provide information to urban planners and tree care professionals, helping improve urban forest design, tree risk assessment and storm management efforts. This project will provide an opportunity to directly evaluate urban tree canopy responses to hurricanes, and differences in tree damage related to biophysical and social characteristics. This project will build on existing measurements, utilizing field inventory data obtained in the months prior to the storm in Tampa, Gainesville, and Orange County, Florida. Field plots will be re-visited to obtain post-storm data assessing tree failure. These data will be used in conjunction with remotely sensed data obtained before and after the storm, as well as census data to establish socioeconomic context. This combination of field measurements, census data, and remotely sensed data products will allow inference about relationships between socioeconomic and forest structural factors and tree failure. The findings and predictions will directly address larger-scale questions about how urban forest ecosystems are altered in the face of future disturbance scenarios. This project will also improve estimates of the overall consequences of hurricanes to urban forests, allowing policy makers to make better decisions to manage the ecosystem services of this important resource.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.