CNH-L: Restoration and Resilience in Coupled Human-Natural Systems: Reciprocal Dynamics of a Coastal Lagoon

CNH-L：人与自然耦合系统的恢复和恢复力：沿海泻湖的相互动力学

基本信息

批准号：
1617374
负责人：
Linda Walters
金额：
$ 160万
依托单位：
The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2016-08-01 至 2022-01-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1617374&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
CNH Restoration Resilience Coupled Human

项目摘要

This interdisciplinary research project will explore the role of small-scale, community-based restoration projects in facilitating enhanced resilience within both human and ecological systems. This project will increase knowledge of the processes through which human engagement in ecosystem restoration promotes beneficial feedbacks within coastal ecosystems. It will enhance understanding about the specific pathways through which restoration disrupts degraded ecosystems and influences human behavior. A large number of complementary, integrated datasets will be assembled, allowing the project to provide a system-level assessment of ecosystem services related to coastal restoration. The project also will explore the potential for changes in human perception and a sense of place to create feedbacks through altered human behavior that impact natural system dynamics. In addition to its fundamental intellectual merit, the project will yield a diverse set of positive broader impacts. It will quantify relationships between restoration success and impact within and between human and natural components of coastal ecosystems in order to improve likelihoods that future restorations will effectively reduce human vulnerability and improve ecological function. The investigators will engage local research participants, such as fishermen and business owners, in ecological restoration and in the use of techniques like participatory geographic information systems. They also will engage elementary and secondary school educators and students in research through hands-on workshops focused on using digital technologies for storytelling, mapping, and data analysis.Significant attention has been given to the degradation and exploitation of natural resources, but ecosystem restoration represents an activity through which humans seek to improve natural systems. Despite growing investments in restoration, a critical knowledge gap persists in understanding what constitutes "success" and whether traditionally accepted metrics of restoration success (such as the survival rate of plantings or the number of volunteers who participate) are truly indicative of measurable "impacts" (such as improvements to ecological function or enhanced stakeholder buy-in). The investigators will leverage a decade-long monitoring dataset for more than 80 oyster reef and living shoreline restoration projects that have involved over 51,000 volunteers spanning along Florida's Indian River Lagoon. They will generate experimental data to examine restoration impacts on local and regional biogeochemistry, hydraulics, sediment transport, recreational fisheries, and threatened or endangered wading birds. Combining these restoration-impact measures with traditional restoration success metrics for both site- and lagoon-scale ecosystem responses will provide a more complete and quantitative understanding of restoration outcomes. They also will conduct a comprehensive assessment of stakeholder perceptions, attitudes, and the creation of a "sense of place" within the restored and surrounding natural system. Research products will create highly transferable knowledge regarding the critical attributes of restoration and local community engagement that cascade into beneficial feedbacks between humans and restored ecosystems. This project is supported by the NSF Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH) Program.

这个跨学科研究项目将探讨小规模、以社区为基础的恢复项目在促进增强人类和生态系统复原力方面的作用。该项目将增加对人类参与生态系统恢复促进沿海生态系统内有益反馈的过程的了解。它将加深对恢复破坏退化生态系统和影响人类行为的具体途径的了解。将汇集大量互补的综合数据集，使该项目能够对与沿海恢复相关的生态系统服务进行系统级评估。该项目还将探索人类感知和地方感变化的潜力，通过改变影响自然系统动态的人类行为来创建反馈。除了其基本的智力价值外，该项目还将产生一系列更广泛的积极影响。它将量化恢复成功与沿海生态系统人类和自然组成部分内部和之间的影响之间的关系，以提高未来恢复有效减少人类脆弱性和改善生态功能的可能性。研究人员将让当地的研究参与者，如渔民和企业主，参与生态恢复和参与式地理信息系统等技术的使用。他们还将通过实践研讨会吸引中小学教育工作者和学生参与研究，重点是使用数字技术讲故事、绘图和数据分析。自然资源的退化和开发受到了极大关注，但生态系统恢复代表了人类寻求改善自然系统的活动。尽管对恢复的投资不断增加，但在理解什么是“成功”以及传统上接受的恢复成功指标（例如种植的成活率或参与的志愿者数量）是否真正表明可衡量的“影响”方面仍然存在关键的知识差距（例如改善生态功能或增强利益相关者的支持）。调查人员将利用长达 10 年的监测数据集，对佛罗里达州印第安河泻湖沿岸 80 多个牡蛎礁和活体海岸线恢复项目进行监测，这些项目涉及超过 51,000 名志愿者。他们将生成实验数据，以检查恢复对当地和区域生物地球化学、水力学、沉积物运输、休闲渔业以及受威胁或濒临灭绝的涉水鸟类的影响。将这些恢复影响措施与针对场地和泻湖规模生态系统响应的传统恢复成功指标相结合，将为恢复结果提供更完整和定量的理解。他们还将对利益相关者的看法、态度以及在恢复后的周围自然系统中创建“地方感”进行全面评估。研究产品将创造关于恢复和当地社区参与的关键属性的高度可转移的知识，这些知识会级联成人类和恢复的生态系统之间的有益反馈。该项目得到了 NSF 自然与人类耦合系统动力学 (CNH) 计划的支持。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（5）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

Benthic Flow and Mixing in a Shallow Shoal Grass (Halodule wrightii) Fringe

DOI：
10.3390/geosciences11030115
发表时间：
2021-03
期刊：
影响因子：
0
作者：
D. Cannon;K. Kibler;V. Kitsikoudis
通讯作者：
D. Cannon;K. Kibler;V. Kitsikoudis

Variation of mean flow and turbulence characteristics within canopies of restored intertidal oyster reefs as a function of restoration age

恢复潮间带牡蛎礁冠层内平均流量和湍流特征随恢复年龄的变化

DOI：
10.1016/j.ecoleng.2022.106678
发表时间：
2022
期刊：
Ecological Engineering
影响因子：
3.8
作者：
Cannon, David;Kibler, Kelly M.;Kitsikoudis, Vasileios;Medeiros, Stephen C.;Walters, Linda J.
通讯作者：
Walters, Linda J.

Mean flow and turbulence observations on reference and restored oyster reefs in Mosquito Lagoon - Florida from 2018-06-01 to 2018-11-15 (NCEI Accession 0225430)

2018年6月1日至2018年11月15日对佛罗里达州蚊礁湖参考和恢复的牡蛎礁的平均流量和湍流观测（NCEI登记号0225430）

DOI：
10.25921/f389-7q16
发表时间：
2021
期刊：
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
影响因子：
0
作者：
Cannon, David;Kibler, Kelly;Kitsikoudis, Vasileios;Medeiros, Stephen;Walters, Linda;Spiering, David;Nogueira, Barbara
通讯作者：
Nogueira, Barbara

How Well Do Restored Intertidal Oyster Reefs Support Key Biogeochemical Properties in a Coastal Lagoon?