Collaborative Research: Global Patterns of Soil Biodiversity: Implications for Ecosystem Function

合作研究：土壤生物多样性的全球模式：对生态系统功能的影响

• 批准号: 0344372
• 负责人: James Garey
• 金额: $ 62.4万
• 依托单位: University of South Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-04-01 至 2010-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0344372&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Global; Patterns; Soil

Knowledge of global patterns of biodiversity are based on aboveground ecosystems, even though these systems are integrally linked belowground. This grant will be the first to extend our knowledge of the unseen world in soils by determining if soils have regional and global patterns and hotspots of biodiversity and how these relate to aboveground diversity and ecosystem functioning. Using molecular techniques and ecosystem techniques, this research will integrate knowledge at the species level to ecosystem function. Establishing knowledge on soil biodiversity has implications for management of invasive species, for prioritizing sites for conservation, and for determining how global terrestrial ecosystems function.

对全球生物多样性模式的知识基于地上生态系统，尽管这些系统与地下依次相连。这笔赠款将是第一个通过确定土壤是否具有生物多样性的区域和全球模式和热点来扩展我们对土壤中看不见的世界的了解，以及这些土壤与地上多样性和生态系统功能的关系。使用分子技术和生态系统技术，这项研究将在物种层面的知识与生态系统功能相结合。建立关于土壤生物多样性的知识对入侵物种的管理有影响，以确定保护地点的优先级以及确定全球陆地生态系统的功能。