Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: AWERRS Arctic Wetlands Ecosystems – Resilience through Restoration & Stewardship

贝尔蒙特论坛合作研究：AWERRS 北极湿地生态系统 — 通过恢复实现恢复力

• 批准号: 2114864
• 负责人: James Powell
• 金额: $ 6.54万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Southeast Juneau Campus
• 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: 2021-11-15 至 2024-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2114864&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Belmont; Forum; Collaborative; Research; AWERRS

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 9-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations representing over 55 countries focused on support for transdisciplinary approaches to global environmental change challenges and opportunities. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions. This award provides support for the U.S. researchers to cooperate in consortia that consist of partners from at least three of the participating countries. The research teams will address key areas of arctic resilience understanding and action. This collaboration of academic and non-academic knowledge systems constitutes a transdisciplinary approach that will advance not only understanding of the fundamentals of arctic resilience but also spur action, inform decision-making, and translate into solutions for resilience. The project seeks to address the challenge of building resilience in a rapidly changing Arctic by focusing on human activities that impact Arctic wetlands ecosystems. The project will support and help communities to strengthen their capacity to engage in wetlands restoration and stewardship. At a local scale, wetlands buffer heavy precipitation and snowmelt and filter and store water. They provide crucial habitat for biodiversity, providing nesting and breeding areas for migratory bird species and spawning areas for fish species. As such, they support traditional livelihoods activities including reindeer husbandry, hunting and fishing, other cultural and recreational activities, and tourism. Less widely known is that intact wetlands store a large amount of global carbon. While they make up only about 3% of the Earth's land area, wetlands store an estimated 20% of the worlds terrestrial carbon – the largest regional store of carbon on the planet. Identifying and testing approaches for strengthening the engagement of local communities and other actors in the restoration and stewardship of Arctic wetlands ecosystems helps increase community resilience though shared engagement - and through the ecosystem service benefits derived from improving wetlands ecosystems' resilience.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.

该奖项为参与由 9 个国家的全球变化研究倡议通过贝尔蒙特论坛竞争性选出的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙特论坛是一个由代表超过 55 个国家的研究资助组织组成的联盟，致力于支持全球跨学科方法。它旨在通过协调和调动国际资源为其研究人员提供资金，以减轻对可持续发展的资金需求，从而加速开展最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除可持续发展的关键障碍。这种方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持最好通过跨国方法解决的全球相关主题的优秀研究，认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案，该奖项为美国研究人员在联盟中进行合作提供支持。来自至少三个参与国的合作伙伴将研究北极复原力理解和行动的关键领域，这种学术和非学术知识系统的合作构成了一种跨学科方法，不仅将促进对北极基本原理的理解。韧性但是该项目还旨在通过关注影响北极湿地生态系统的人类活动来应对在快速变化的北极地区建立复原力的挑战。在局部范围内，湿地缓冲强降水和融雪，过滤和储存水，为生物多样性提供重要的栖息地，为候鸟提供筑巢和繁殖区，为鱼类提供产卵区。 .因此，他们支持传统驯鹿饲养、狩猎和捕鱼、其他文化和娱乐活动以及旅游业等生计活动鲜为人知的是，完好的湿地储存了大量的全球碳，尽管湿地仅占地球陆地面积的 3% 左右。估计占世界陆地碳的 20%——地球上最大的区域碳储存 确定和测试加强当地社区和其他参与者参与北极湿地生态系统恢复和管理的方法有助于提高社区的复原力。共同参与 - 并通过改善湿地生态系统的恢复力而产生的生态系统服务效益。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。