Marine urban development: how can ecology inform the design of multifunctional artificial structures?

该项目旨在实验性地操纵人工结构的设计，以实现多用途的生态目标。建筑物和道路等人工结构多年来一直是陆地城市景观的特色，但直到最近才开始侵蚀水生环境。大多数海洋人工结构缺乏减轻其生态影响和提供减少污染等基本生态系统服务所需的创新设计解决方案。本项目将调查这些设计的有效性，既有经典的多样性和结构措施，也有新的生态系统功能措施。该项目旨在为未来海洋城市发展的设计提供必要的信息。

This project aims to experimentally manipulate the design of artificial structures to achieve multipurpose ecological objectives. Artificial structures such as buildings and roads have featured in terrestrial urban landscapes for many years, but have only more recently begun encroaching on aquatic environments. Most marine artificial structures lack the innovative design solutions required to mitigate their ecological impacts and provide essential ecosystem services such as pollution abatement. This project will investigate the efficacy of these designs with both classical measures of diversity and structure and novel measures of ecosystem function. The project aims to provide essential information to inform the design of future marine urban developments.