NSERC ResNet: A network for monitoring, modelling, and managing Canada's ecosystem services for sustainability and resilience

加拿大共享健康、繁荣和韧性的未来将取决于我们管理生态系统的能力以及它们为人类现在和未来的福祉提供的所有好处。事实上，我们一生的核心挑战是满足我们现在对食物、能源和其他关键生态系统服务的需求，而不破坏未来提供这些服务的能力，即使我们面临着迫在眉睫的全球环境挑战。我们的研究人员网络将在加拿大各地的一系列工作景观中监控生态系统服务-人类从自然中获得的好处-并建立模型。工作景观--积极用于生产食物、鱼类和林产品等资源的土地--对他们对加拿大人福祉的贡献特别重要。从历史上看，工作景观的重点一直是廉价、可靠和高效的个体生态系统生产，如食物、能源或木材。对这些景观提供的其他生态系统服务的研究一直滞后，包括碳储存、洪水调节、娱乐和精神提升。我们的网络将在加拿大各地的六个工作景观中衡量各种生态系统服务，目的是扩大我们通过这六个景观研究获得的理解，为加拿大提供一个ES仪表盘，可以用来衡量我们在工作景观方面的进展、可持续性和弹性，供所有加拿大人使用。

A Canadian future of shared health, prosperity, and resilience will depend on our ability to manage ecosystemsand all the benefits they provide for human well-being now and in the future. Indeed, the central challenge ofour lifetime is to meet our needs for food, energy, and other critical ecosystem services now withoutundermining the ability to provide these services into the future, even as we face looming global environmentalchallenges. Our network of researchers will monitor and model ecosystem services - the benefits people obtainfrom nature - in a series of working landscapes across Canada. Working landscapes - land actively used forproduction of resources such as food, fish, and forest products - are of particular importance for theircontributions to Canadians' wellbeing. Historically, the focus in working landscapes has been on the cheap,reliable, and efficient production of individual ES such as food, energy, or timber. Studies of the otherecosystems services provided by these landscapes, including carbon storage, flood regulation, recreation,spiritual enhancement, have lagged behind. Our network will measure a broad variety of ecosystem services ina set of six working landscapes across Canada, with the goal of scaling up the understanding we gain throughthese six landscape studies to deliver an ES dashboard for Canada that can be used to measure our progresstowards sustainability and resilience of working landscapes for all Canadians.