Ecosystem services, biodiversity, and landscape connectivity

本提案针对目标区域“健康环境与生态系统”内的研究课题“生态系统适应、干预和建模”。社区管理他们的景观，以提供各种生态系统服务，包括高质量的水、食物和娱乐。提供这些服务不仅是生态系统健康的敏感指标，而且对维持人类福祉也至关重要。为了成功地管理生态系统服务，社区需要关于人类利用活动将如何影响当前和未来服务提供的科学信息。我们将根据我们关于土地利用、生物多样性和生态系统服务之间相互作用的新概念框架，开发实用的决策支持工具。这些工具——社区规划者可以改变景观中森林的数量和配置，并接收有关所提供生态系统服务的输出信息的模型——将帮助社区在面对地方、区域和全球变化时做出环境管理决策。

This proposal addresses the research topic "Ecosystem Adaptation, Interventions, and Modeling" within the target area "Healthy Environment and Ecosystems". Communities manage their landscape to provide various ecosystem services including high quality water, food, and recreation. Provision of these services is not only a sensitive indicator of ecosystem health, but is also critical to maintenance of human well-being. To successfully manage ecosystem services, communities need scientific information about how human utilization activities will affect current and future provision of services. We will develop practical decision-support tools based on our new conceptual framework about the interactions between land use, biodiversity and ecosystem services. These tools -- models in which community planners can alter the amount and configuration of forest in the landscape and receive output information about the ecosystem services provided -- will help communities make decisions about environmental management in the face of local, regional, and global change.