SGER: Impact of Hurricane Wilma, a Large "Infrequent" Enrichment Disturbance on Tropical Seasonal Forest: Establishing the Legacy Effect on the Post-disturbance Mosaic

SGER：飓风威尔玛的影响，对热带季节性森林的一次大型“罕见”富集干扰：建立对干扰后马赛克的遗留效应

• 批准号: 0615427
• 负责人: Michael Allen
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of California-Riverside
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-05-01 至 2007-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0615427&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Impact; Hurricane; Wilma; Large

Intellectual Contribution: The El Eden Ecological Reserve has been the site of important environmental investigations. It also serves as an interior wintering and migration corridor for many neotropical migrant birds from the US and has a rich research background on biodiversity, restoration ecology, and succession studies. Hurricane Wilma hit the Reserve directly in October of 2005, causing a severe damage overlaying a complex array of forests and experiments. The impact of Hurricane Wilma on carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus accumulation, tree damage, mycorrhizal fungi and epiphyte composition and distribution, plant architecture changes, and responding insect and bird communities will be studied.Broader Impacts: The El Eden Ecological Reserve is a well-documented study area for assessing biodiversity and ecosystem functioning with environmental change. Graduate and undergraduate students from the US and Mexico will participate interactively through collaborative Mexican and US funding. HabitatNet, a program at Souhegan High School (11-12 grade students) will monitor plots and will develop a website with research data and observations of interest to High School Students. A similar suite of plant, insect and bird monitoring will be initiated at the Succila secondary school near the reserve in Mexico, under collaborative research with PROTROPICO. This project will initiate an interactive program between the UCR and El Eden research program, the Succila secondary school, and the Souhegan High- HabitatNet program as a model for developing interactions between researchers and students from both countries.

智力贡献：埃尔伊甸园生态保护区一直是重要环境调查的场所。它也是许多来自美国的新热带候鸟的内部越冬和迁徙走廊，在生物多样性、恢复生态学和演替研究方面拥有丰富的研究背景。 2005 年 10 月，飓风威尔玛直接袭击了保护区，对一系列复杂的森林和实验造成了严重破坏。将研究飓风威尔玛对碳、氮和磷积累、树木损害、菌根真菌和附生植物组成和分布、植物结构变化以及相应的昆虫和鸟类群落的影响。 更广泛的影响：埃尔伊甸园生态保护区是一个良好的影响记录的研究领域，用于评估生物多样性和生态系统功能随环境变化的变化。来自美国和墨西哥的研究生和本科生将通过墨西哥和美国的合作资助以互动方式参与。 HabitatNet 是 Souhegan 高中（11-12 年级学生）的一个项目，该项目将监控情节并开发一个网站，其中包含高中生感兴趣的研究数据和观察结果。在与 PROTROPICO 的合作研究下，墨西哥保护区附近的 Succila 中学将启动一套类似的植物、昆虫和鸟类监测系统。该项目将启动 UCR 和 El Eden 研究项目、Succila 中学和 Souhegan High HabitatNet 项目之间的互动项目，作为发展两国研究人员和学生之间互动的模式。