RCN: Drought Impacts on Regional Ecosystems Network (DIREnet): Coordinating Studies on Southwest Forests & Woodlands.

RCN：干旱对区域生态系统的影响网络（DIREnet）：西南森林协调研究

• 批准号: 0443526
• 负责人: Neil Cobb
• 金额: $ 49.78万
• 依托单位: Northern Arizona University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-04-15 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0443526&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; Drought; Impacts; Regional; Ecosystems

The Drought Impacts on Regional Ecosystems Network (DIREnet) will promote the coordination and synthesis of ecological research on drought effects and the potential role of global climate change. A severe regional drought in the last nine years has rapidly and dramatically altered Southwest forest and woodland ecosystems. DIREnet will promote and integrate research needed to address key questions that can only be addressed with a regional network. DIREnet will bring researchers and land managers together to assess the impacts of the drought through conferences that will foster new research and synthesize existing research. A student researcher exchange program will promote novel research opportunities, and facilitate technology transfer. A sophisticated online forum (Southwest Ecological Research Forum [SERF]) will serve as a globally accessible data clearinghouse, providing advanced analysis and visualization and a forum for scientific discussion and communication. In combination, these efforts will greatly promote our understanding of how droughts impact major ecosystems, including altered fire regimes and habitat degradation, and how climate change scenarios may alter drought dynamics in the future. Outreach to Native Americans and the general public will help improve natural resource use planning and policy development. DIREnet will provide a model for network technologies that are needed to bring together interdisciplinary, geographically-distributed scientific communities in a common research effort focused on addressing broad research issues.

干旱对区域生态系统的影响网络（DIREnet）将促进干旱影响和全球气候变化潜在作用的生态研究的协调和综合。 过去九年来严重的区域干旱迅速而显着地改变了西南地区的森林和林地生态系统。 DIREnet 将促进和整合解决只能通过区域网络才能解决的关键问题所需的研究。 DIREnet 将把研究人员和土地管理者聚集在一起，通过会议来评估干旱的影响，这些会议将促进新的研究并综合现有的研究。 学生研究人员交流计划将促进新的研究机会，并促进技术转让。 复杂的在线论坛（西南生态研究论坛 [SERF]）将作为全球可访问的数据交换所，提供先进的分析和可视化以及科学讨论和交流的论坛。 总而言之，这些努力将极大地促进我们对干旱如何影响主要生态系统的理解，包括改变火灾状况和栖息地退化，以及气候变化情景如何改变未来的干旱动态。 向美洲原住民和公众进行宣传将有助于改善自然资源利用规划和政策制定。 DIREnet 将为网络技术提供一个模型，将跨学科、地理上分散的科学界聚集在一起，进行共同的研究工作，重点解决广泛的研究问题。