EVO-LTER: Multifaceted mechanisms of metropolis: Integrating society, ecology, evolution, and plasticity to advance urban evolutionary ecology

EVO-LTER：大都市的多层面机制：整合社会、生态、进化和可塑性，推进城市进化生态学

• 批准号: 2129699
• 负责人: Kevin McGraw
• 金额: $ 9.91万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2129699&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EVO; LTER; Multifaceted; mechanisms; metropolis

More than half of all people live in cities and the percentage in cities is increasing. Environmental changes accompany this urbanization. These changes include extreme urban heat, use of water for irrigation, and air pollution. Such changes shape the animals and plants that live there, and this has consequences for human health and well-being. Because urbanization can alter where species live and how they act, it is important to determine the extent, causes, and consequences of urban change on animals and plants. Recent research suggests that urban species can undergo rapid evolution due to the rapid environmental changes that occur in urban areas. Long-term datasets are required to assess such changes over time for different taxa and different environmental conditions. This work will assess the viability and impact of species in a changing urban environment over the long term. In the process it will examine how urban biodiversity directly affects our lives. The project will also help train the next generation of urban evolutionary ecologists. This award supports the organization and execution of two workshops, bringing together diverse participants in urban ecology and evolutionary biology from the US and across the globe. It is targeted at capitalizing on the decades of urban ecological data compiled by the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (CAP LTER) site and other sites in the LTER network along with the evolutionary-biology expertise of workshop participants to develop more comprehensive studies of the evolution of species within urban ecosystems. These workshops will develop methods for utilizing long term data at the CAP LTER for evolutionary study, and then provide those methods to the larger community of ecologists and evolutionary biologists.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.

超过一半的人居住在城市中，城市的百分比正在增加。 环境变化伴随着城市化。这些变化包括极端的城市热量，用水用于灌溉和空气污染。这种变化塑造了居住在那里的动物和植物，这对人类健康和福祉产生了影响。 由于城市化可以改变物种居住的地方以及它们的作用，因此确定城市变化对动物和植物的程度，原因和后果很重要。最近的研究表明，由于城市地区发生的环境变化，城市物种可以快速发展。 需要长期数据集来评估不同分类单元和不同环境条件的随着时间的变化。这项工作将在长期内评估不断变化的城市环境中物种的生存能力和影响。在此过程中，它将研究城市生物多样性如何直接影响我们的生活。该项目还将帮助培训下一代城市进化生态学家。该奖项支持了两个研讨会的组织和执行，将来自美国和全球的城市生态和进化生物学的不同参与者汇集在一起​​。它的目标是利用亚利桑那州中部 - 佩诺克斯中部长期生态研究（CAP LTER）地点和LTER网络中的其他站点以及研讨会参与者的进化生物学专业知识，以开发城市生态系统中物种进化的更全面研究。这些讲习班将开发用于进化研究中的长期数据的方法，然后将这些方法提供给更大的生态学家和进化生物学家社区。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和更广泛影响的评估来通过评估来支持的。