RAPID Collaborative Research: Resilient and resistant urban forests: the role of landscape configuration and socioeconomic legacy in understanding tree response to hurricane

RAPID 合作研究：弹性和抵抗力的城市森林：景观配置和社会经济遗产在了解树木对飓风的反应中的作用

• 批准号: 1833041
• 负责人: Shawn Landry
• 金额: $ 3.29万
• 依托单位: University of South Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-05-01 至 2020-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1833041&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Collaborative; Research; Resilient; resistant

Hurricane Irma caused severe wind and water damage across Florida. Damage to urban forests was widespread. Many trees were uprooted or lost leaves and limbs. As in previous storms, tree damage from Irma is unlikely to be felt equally across communities. Since urban forests provide many important services, understanding what causes differences in impacts between communities is critical to recovery. Patterns of damage may depend on proximity to buildings and which species were present. Management practices, as well as average household income and age of housing, are also likely to be important. Therefore, the goal of this project is to understand how local ecological, social and economic conditions relate to the severity of damage to urban forests from Hurricane Irma. Irma provides a unique and urgent opportunity to learn how urban forests are affected by hurricanes, allowing communities to better predict where tree loss may be high. This will lead to better preparation and effective recovery plans for future storm events. Presentations and workshops will provide information to urban planners and tree care professionals, helping improve urban forest design, tree risk assessment and storm management efforts. This project will provide an opportunity to directly evaluate urban tree canopy responses to hurricanes, and differences in tree damage related to biophysical and social characteristics. This project will build on existing measurements, utilizing field inventory data obtained in the months prior to the storm in Tampa, Gainesville, and Orange County, Florida. Field plots will be re-visited to obtain post-storm data assessing tree failure. These data will be used in conjunction with remotely sensed data obtained before and after the storm, as well as census data to establish socioeconomic context. This combination of field measurements, census data, and remotely sensed data products will allow inference about relationships between socioeconomic and forest structural factors and tree failure. The findings and predictions will directly address larger-scale questions about how urban forest ecosystems are altered in the face of future disturbance scenarios. This project will also improve estimates of the overall consequences of hurricanes to urban forests, allowing policy makers to make better decisions to manage the ecosystem services of this important resource.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

伊尔玛飓风在整个佛罗里达州造成了严重的风和水破坏。对城市森林的损害很普遍。许多树被连根拔起或丢失的叶子和四肢。与以前的风暴一样，艾尔玛的树木破坏不太可能在整个社区中同样受到。由于城市森林提供了许多重要的服务，因此了解什么导致社区之间影响差异的原因对于恢复至关重要。损害的模式可能取决于与建筑物的接近性以及存在哪些物种。管理实践以及家庭收入和住房的平均年龄也很重要。因此，该项目的目的是了解当地的生态，社会和经济状况如何与飓风Irma对城市森林损害的严重性有关。艾尔玛（Irma）提供了一个独特而紧急的机会，以了解城市森林如何受飓风影响，使社区能够更好地预测树木损失可能很高。这将为未来的风暴事件提供更好的准备和有效的恢复计划。演讲和讲习班将为城市规划师和树木护理专业人员提供信息，以帮助改善城市森林设计，树木风险评估和风暴管理工作。该项目将为直接评估城市树冠对飓风的反应以及与生物物理和社会特征有关的树木损害差异提供机会。该项目将基于现有测量值，利用在坦帕，盖恩斯维尔和佛罗里达州坦帕县的几个月中获得的现场库存数据。将重新访问现场地块以获取态后数据评估树木故障。这些数据将与暴风雨前后获得的遥感数据以及人口普查数据一起使用，以建立社会经济环境。现场测量，人口普查数据和远程感知的数据产品的这种结合将允许推断社会经济和森林结构因素与树木失败之间的关系。这些发现和预测将直接解决有关在未来的干扰情况下如何改变城市森林生态系统的大规模问题。该项目还将改善对飓风对城市森林的总体后果的估计，使决策者能够做出更好的决定来管理这一重要资源的生态系统服务。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准来通过评估来支持的。