EVO-LTER: Multifaceted mechanisms of metropolis: Integrating society, ecology, evolution, and plasticity to advance urban evolutionary ecology

超过一半的人口生活在城市，而且城市人口的比例还在增加。 环境变化伴随着城市化。这些变化包括极端的城市高温，灌溉用水和空气污染。这些变化塑造了生活在那里的动物和植物，这对人类的健康和福祉产生了影响。 由于城市化可以改变物种的生活地点和它们的行为方式，因此确定城市变化对动物和植物的影响程度、原因和后果非常重要。最近的研究表明，由于城市地区发生的快速环境变化，城市物种可以经历快速进化。 需要长期的数据集来评估不同分类群和不同环境条件随时间的变化。这项工作将评估物种在不断变化的城市环境中的长期生存能力和影响。在这个过程中，它将研究城市生物多样性如何直接影响我们的生活。该项目还将帮助培养下一代城市进化生态学家。该奖项支持两个研讨会的组织和执行，汇集了来自美国和地球仪的城市生态学和进化生物学的不同参与者。它的目标是利用几十年的城市生态数据汇编的中央亚利桑那州-凤凰城长期生态研究（CAP LTER）网站和其他网站在LTER网络沿着研讨会参与者的进化生物学专业知识，以开发更全面的研究城市生态系统内的物种进化。这些研讨会将开发利用CAP LTER长期数据进行进化研究的方法，然后将这些方法提供给更大的生态学家和进化生物学家社区。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

More than half of all people live in cities and the percentage in cities is increasing. Environmental changes accompany this urbanization. These changes include extreme urban heat, use of water for irrigation, and air pollution. Such changes shape the animals and plants that live there, and this has consequences for human health and well-being. Because urbanization can alter where species live and how they act, it is important to determine the extent, causes, and consequences of urban change on animals and plants. Recent research suggests that urban species can undergo rapid evolution due to the rapid environmental changes that occur in urban areas. Long-term datasets are required to assess such changes over time for different taxa and different environmental conditions. This work will assess the viability and impact of species in a changing urban environment over the long term. In the process it will examine how urban biodiversity directly affects our lives. The project will also help train the next generation of urban evolutionary ecologists. This award supports the organization and execution of two workshops, bringing together diverse participants in urban ecology and evolutionary biology from the US and across the globe. It is targeted at capitalizing on the decades of urban ecological data compiled by the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP LTER) site and other sites in the LTER network along with the evolutionary-biology expertise of workshop participants to develop more comprehensive studies of the evolution of species within urban ecosystems. These workshops will develop methods for utilizing long term data at the CAP LTER for evolutionary study, and then provide those methods to the larger community of ecologists and evolutionary biologists.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.