Biocomplexity Incubation Activity: Integration of Spatial, Ecological, and Environmental Social Science Methods for the Study of Biodiversity and Biocomplexity

生物复杂性孵化活动：整合空间、生态和环境社会科学方法来研究生物多样性和生物复杂性

• 批准号: 0083546
• 负责人: Emilio Moran
• 金额: $ 9.95万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-09-15 至 2005-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0083546&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Biocomplexity; Incubation; Activity; Integration; Spatial

Ongoing research examining the complex interactions among human and natural systems have demonstrated the need for more frequent and cohesive communication among social and natural sciences. This Biocomplexity Incubation Activity award will support a project that consists of a series of workshops and other activities designed to integrate research on environmental change and its effects on biocomplexity being carried out by ecologists, who generally work on spatially explicit models of population dynamics, and social scientists, who tend to do research on the social, economic and institutional bases for human modification of environments. The project will involve two workshops. Each workshop will run for three to five days and will involve 30 to 45 participants; including roughly equal numbers of ecologists and social scientists. The first workshop will center on the construction of preliminary models and the exploration of issues that have to be resolved in order to integrate the insights and working methods of ecology and social science. Preliminary models will be developed and tested over the following year in a sequence of graduate seminars. Web-based materials will be developed to maintain contact among the participants. A substantial portion of the second workshop will be devoted to preparing proposals for further research on biocomplexity and biodiversity.Ecologists and environmental social scientists have been addressing related issues although they have emphasized different research questions and have used dissimilar models and methods. Despite their differences in research traditions, these two fields have reached a stage where intensive interactions in a series of workshops should be very fruitful. Both groups have been heavily concerned with the destruction or transformation of habitat, a set of processes that probably pose the greatest threat to biodiversity. Both groups have also addressed these processes in ways that make spatial processes explicit and important. Among ecologists, space has become an extremely important component in the logic of theoretical models of ecological processes. Among social scientists, spatial frameworks have become crucial as basis for gathering and organizing information about environmental change. This project will use these common concerns with habitat destruction and spatially explicit modeling to develop a set of research projects that integrate the work of ecologists and environmental social scientists.

正在进行的研究人类和自然系统之间复杂的相互作用的研究表明，需要在社会和自然科学之间进行更频繁和凝聚力的沟通。 这项生物复合孵化活动奖将支持一个项目，该项目由一系列研讨会和其他活动组成，旨在整合环境变化的研究及其对生物复杂性的影响，生态学家正在对生物复杂性进行影响，他们通常在空间的人口动态模型上工作，他们倾向于对社会，经济和机构基础进行研究的社会科学家进行研究。 该项目将涉及两个研讨会。 每个研讨会将进行三到五天，并将涉及30至45名参与者；包括大致相等的生态学家和社会科学家。 第一个研讨会将集中于初步模型的建设以及必须解决的问题，以整合生态和社会科学的见解和工作方法。 初步模型将在接下来的一年中以一系列研究生研讨会开发和测试。 将开发基于Web的材料以保持参与者之间的联系。 第二个研讨会的很大一部分将致力于准备有关生物复杂性和生物多样性的进一步研究的建议。生态学家和环境社会科学家一直在解决相关问题，尽管他们强调了不同的研究问题并使用了不同的模型和方法。 尽管研究传统的差异在于这两个领域，但已经达到了一个阶段，其中一系列讲习班中的密集互动应该非常富有成果。 这两个群体都非常关注栖息地的破坏或转变，这可能构成对生物多样性的最大威胁。 两组还以使空间过程明确和重要的方式解决了这些过程。 在生态学家中，空间已成为生态过程理论模型逻辑中极为重要的组成部分。 在社会科学家中，空间框架已成为收集和组织有关环境变化信息的基础至关重要的。 该项目将在栖息地破坏和空间明确的建模中使用这些普遍的问题，以开发一组研究项目，以整合生态学家和环境社会科学家的工作。