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.

超过一半的人口居住在城市，并且城市人口的比例正在增加。 环境变化伴随着城市化。这些变化包括城市极端高温、灌溉用水和空气污染。这些变化塑造了生活在那里的动植物，这对人类的健康和福祉产生了影响。 由于城市化可以改变物种的生活地点及其行为方式，因此确定城市变化对动植物的程度、原因和后果非常重要。最近的研究表明，由于城市地区发生的快速环境变化，城市物种可能会经历快速进化。 需要长期数据集来评估不同类群和不同环境条件随时间的变化。这项工作将评估物种在不断变化的城市环境中的长期生存能力和影响。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。该奖项支持组织和执行两个研讨会，汇集来自美国和全球各地城市生态学和进化生物学领域的不同参与者。它的目标是利用亚利桑那中心-菲尼克斯长期生态研究 (CAP LTER) 站点和 LTER 网络中其他站点汇编的数十年的城市生态数据以及研讨会参与者的进化生物学专业知识，以开发更全面的研究城市生态系统内物种的进化。这些研讨会将开发利用 CAP LTER 的长期数据进行进化研究的方法，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 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。