REU Site: Mapping Beetles, Trees, Neighborhoods, and Policies: A Multi-Scaled, Urban Ecological Assessment of the Asian Longhorned Beetle Invasion in New England (HERO)

REU 站点：绘制甲虫、树木、社区和政策地图：对新英格兰亚洲长角甲虫入侵的多尺度城市生态评估 (HERO)

• 批准号: 1156935
• 负责人: John Rogan
• 金额: $ 33万
• 依托单位: Clark University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-04-15 至 2016-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1156935&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Mapping; Beetles; Trees

The Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) is an invasive wood-boring insect that is a grave threat to urban forests in New England, because it is unique among invasive forest pests for attacking a broad array of tree species. The 2008-present Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) infestation of central Massachusetts poses a greater stress on ecosystem services, as well as response groups ranging from federal/state resource managers to local residents, than any previous ALB outbreak in other localities due to the predominance of favorable host-species and the finely inter-connected nature of urban-rural forests as well as the presence of a competitive interaction at the federal-stakeholder-neighborhood level surrounding how the infestation should be treated and understood. Unanswered questions abound regarding the level of ALB impact at social and ecological levels. This REU Site renewal project is built on 12 years of success engaging undergraduate researchers at Clark University with the Human-Environment Regional Observatory--Massachusetts (HERO-MA) program on land change/vulnerability studies, which followed the REU Site approach (Polsky et al., 2007) since its inception, and as an official REU Site since 2008.Intellectual Merit: The Beetle Impact Assessment stream produces validated measures of spatial and temporal changes in tree cover composition in the ALB-infestation area. This team also evaluates impacts of ALB on forest diversity and cover at present and in the future. The Place-Making Assessment team assess management and policymaking responses to community concerns in response to ALB impacts, involving stakeholders throughout the analysis. They also evaluate ALB impacts by socio-economic status, race/ethnicity and management/governance regime to explore how a more engaged stakeholder group would respond to policy as a result of the ALB experience.Broader Impacts: This project integrally involves undergraduate students (with an emphasis on those from underrepresented groups in the implementation of established research design, and learning outcomes are assessed using a proven methodology within HERO-MA. It is expected to produce salient results that provide resources for practitioners and urban-rural communities experiencing changes associated with loss of urban forest; publications are expected to be produced for both scholarly and stakeholder (e.g., UDSA-APHIS, federal/state/municipal/community groups/elected officials) audiences.

亚洲长角甲虫（光肩星天牛）是一种入侵性蛀木昆虫，对新英格兰的城市森林构成严重威胁，因为它在入侵森林害虫中是独一无二的，会攻击多种树种。 2008 年马萨诸塞州中部发生的亚洲长角甲虫 (ALB) 侵扰对生态系统服务以及从联邦/州资源管理者到当地居民的响应群体造成的压力比其他地区以往任何一次 ALB 爆发都要大。有利的寄主物种和城乡森林之间密切相关的性质，以及在联邦-利益相关者-邻里层面围绕侵扰如何发生的竞争性互动的存在应该被对待和理解。关于 ALB 对社会和生态层面的影响程度，尚有大量悬而未决的问题。 REU 场地更新项目建立在克拉克大学本科生研究人员参与马萨诸塞州人类环境区域观测站 (HERO-MA) 土地变化/脆弱性研究项目 12 年来的成功基础上，该项目遵循 REU 场地方法（Polsky 等人） al., 2007) 自成立以来，并自 2008 年起成为 REU 官方网站。 智力优点：甲虫影响评估流产生了经过验证的空间和时间变化测量ALB 侵染地区的树木覆盖组成。该团队还评估了 ALB 对当前和未来森林多样性和覆盖率的影响。地方营造评估团队评估管理层和政策制定者对社区关切的反应，以应对 ALB 的影响，并让利益相关者参与整个分析过程。他们还通过社会经济地位、种族/民族和管理/治理制度来评估 ALB 的影响，以探索更积极参与的利益相关者群体将如何因 ALB 经验而对政策做出反应。 更广泛的影响：该项目整体涉及本科生（在实施既定研究设计时强调来自代表性不足的群体，并使用 HERO-MA 中经过验证的方法评估学习成果，预计将产生显着的结果，为经历相关变化的从业者和城乡社区提供资源。随着城市森林的丧失；预计将为学术界和利益相关者（例如 UDSA-APHIS、联邦/州/市/社区团体/民选官员）读者制作出版物。