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

飓风厄玛在整个佛罗里达造成严重的风灾和水灾。城市森林遭到广泛破坏。许多树木被连根拔起或落叶断枝。与之前的风暴一样，Irma对树木的破坏不太可能在各个社区都能感受到。由于城市森林提供了许多重要的服务，了解造成社区之间影响差异的原因对于恢复至关重要。损害的模式可能取决于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也可能很重要。因此，该项目的目标是了解当地的生态、社会和经济条件与飓风厄玛对城市森林造成的破坏严重程度之间的关系。厄玛提供了一个独特而紧迫的机会，让人们了解城市森林如何受到飓风的影响，使社区能够更好地预测哪里的树木损失可能会很高。这将有助于为未来的风暴事件做好更好的准备和制定有效的恢复计划。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，直接评估城市树木树冠对飓风的反应，以及与生物物理和社会特征有关的树木损害的差异。该项目将建立在现有的测量基础上，利用风暴前几个月在坦帕、盖恩斯维尔和佛罗里达橙子县获得的实地清查数据。将重新访问实地地块，以获得风暴后评估树木故障的数据。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结合使用，以确定社会经济背景。这种实地测量、普查数据和遥感数据产品的结合将使人们能够推断出社会经济和森林结构因素与树木衰竭之间的关系。研究结果和预测将直接解决更大规模的问题，即面对未来的干扰情景，城市森林生态系统将如何改变。该项目还将改善飓风对城市森林的总体影响的估计，使政策制定者能够做出更好的决策，以管理这一重要资源的生态系统服务。该奖项反映了NSF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.