WORKSHOP: EXPLORING NEW DIMENSIONS OF FOREST ECOSYSTEMS WITH STRUCTURAL DIVERSITY

研讨会：探索具有结构多样性的森林生态系统的新维度

• 批准号: 1924942
• 负责人: Songlin Fei
• 金额: $ 9.35万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-01 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1924942&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WORKSHOP; EXPLORING; NEW; DIMENSIONS; FOREST

Scientists have long known that biodiversity and ecosystem structure are important for forests. However, these concepts are mostly studied in isolation. This has resulted in a limited understanding of how they relate to each other and to forest function. Forest physical structure can now be easily measured because of advances in remote sensing and computer science. The term 'structural diversity' describes the combination of structure and biodiversity within complex ecosystems, capitalizing on decades of ecology research. Structural diversity estimates niche space for species in ecosystems, and it may link more closely to ecosystem function than biodiversity. Funding will support a workshop designed to advance the science on structural diversity and forest ecosystem function. The group will identify urgent, new research questions and synthesize two areas of biology: biodiversity and remote sensing of ecosystem structure. The workshop will use data from the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). Recruitment of early career and underrepresented minority scientists will increase adoption of NEON data in scientific research. This will address a critical need from the 2018 NEON Community Engagement Assessment Report. It also responds to the NEON Strategic Plan by reaching current users and expanding future use.The application of structural diversity within ecological research is limited by its underdeveloped theoretical framework and a lack of prioritized research questions. This workshop, held in partnership with Battelle and NEON, Inc., will explore foundational questions, identify key knowledge gaps, and prioritize future directions for this new field. The goals of this workshop are to 1) establish an interdisciplinary consensus definition of 'structural diversity', 2) identify key research questions about structural diversity and its relationship to ecological processes to be addressed in the next five years and the knowledge gaps needed to be filled to answer these questions, 3) provide training for early career scientists to measure structural diversity using NEON remote sensing data products. The workshop will bring together scientists with interdisciplinary perspectives of forest ecology and from underrepresented groups to further increase its impact.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.

长期以来，科学家知道生物多样性和生态系统结构对森林很重要。但是，这些概念主要是孤立研究的。这导致对它们之间的关系和森林功能的关系有限。由于遥感和计算机科学的进步，现在可以轻松地测量森林物理结构。 “结构多样性”一词描述了复杂生态系统中结构和生物多样性的结合，利用了数十年的生态研究。结构多样性估计生态系统中物种的利基空间，并且可能比生物多样性更与生态系统功能联系。资金将支持旨在推进结构多样性和森林生态系统功能科学的研讨会。该小组将确定紧急的新研究问题并综合生物学的两个领域：生物多样性和生态系统结构的遥感。该研讨会将使用国家生态天文台（NEON）的数据。招募早期职业和代表性不足的少数族裔科学家将在科学研究中增加对霓虹灯数据的采用。这将解决2018年霓虹灯社区参与评估报告中的关键需求。它还通过吸引当前用户并扩大未来的使用来响应霓虹灯战略计划。生态研究中结构多样性的应用受到其欠发达的理论框架的限制，并且缺乏优先的研究问题。与Battelle and Neon，Inc。合作举行的该研讨会将探讨基本问题，确定关键知识差距，并优先考虑这一新领域的未来方向。该研讨会的目标是1）建立对“结构多样性”的跨学科共识定义，2）确定有关结构多样性及其与生态过程的关系的关键研究问题，在未来五年中要解决的生态过程的关系以及需要填补的知识差距，以及回答这些问题的知识差距，3）为早期的职业科学家提供培训，以测量使用Neon Reabor Eneron Sensing Messing Partect的培训，以衡量结构性多样性。该研讨会将以跨学科生态学的看法和来自代表性不足的群体的跨学科观点汇聚在一起，以进一步增加其影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响来通过评估来获得支持的。

项目成果

The evolution of macrosystems biology

宏观系统生物学的演变

• DOI: 10.1002/fee.2288
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
• 影响因子: 10.3
• 作者: LaRue, Elizabeth A;Rohr, Jason;Knott, Jonathan;Dodds, Walter K;Dahlin, Kyla M;Thorp, James H;Johnson, Jeremy S;Rodríguez González, Mayra I;Hardiman, Brady S;Keller, Michael
• 通讯作者: Keller, Michael

Application of multidimensional structural characterization to detect and describe moderate forest disturbance

• DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.3156
• 发表时间: 2020-06-01
• 期刊: ECOSPHERE
• 影响因子: 2.7
• 作者: Atkins, Jeff W.;Bond-Lamberty, Ben;Gough, Christopher M.
• 通讯作者: Gough, Christopher M.

Compatibility of Aerial and Terrestrial LiDAR for Quantifying Forest Structural Diversity

用于量化森林结构多样性的空中和地面激光雷达的兼容性

• DOI: 10.3390/rs12091407
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Remote Sensing
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: LaRue, Elizabeth A.;Wagner, Franklin W.;Fei, Songlin;Atkins, Jeff W.;Fahey, Robert T.;Gough, Christopher M.;Hardiman, Brady S.
• 通讯作者: Hardiman, Brady S.