DISES: Using continent-wide participatory science to model the dynamic outcomes for humans and birds in a socio-environmental system

DISES：利用全大陆的参与性科学来模拟社会环境系统中人类和鸟类的动态结果

• 批准号: 2206057
• 负责人: Ashley Dayer
• 金额: $ 160万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2026-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2206057&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DISES; Using; continent; wide; participatory

Bird feeding is the most common way that people intentionally attract wildlife near their homes, with over 57 million Americans involved in bird feeding. Bird feeders can impact the number and diversity of birds, increase the number of predators in an area, and increase disease transmission among birds. People can also be impacted through psychological responses to what they see at their feeders, which can influence their mental well-being. This project addresses the question of how we can maximize the positive benefits of bird feeding for both birds and people. To do so, Project FeederWatch, a participatory science project with more than 10,000 volunteers across the United States who study birds at feeders, is being transformed, allowing participants to be involved in passive experiments and also to input information on their own psychological responses from their observations. This research analyses how people’s responses are impacted by their beliefs about wildlife, motivations for feeding wildlife, and demographic characteristics such as gender, age, race, as well as physical or mental disabilities. The continent-wide scale of the collected data also allows for study of how these links between people and birds operate over seasons and from urban to rural areas. The project also aims to understand and implement how to diversify bird feeding and participatory science projects, better engaging Black and Indigenous people, other people of color, and people with disabilities.Worldwide, people intentionally modify landscapes and food sources to affect wildlife behavior and improve outcomes for themselves. These human-modified habitats constitute a growing portion of wildlife habitat in the Anthropocene; yet, these integrated socio-environmental systems have rarely been studied as such. The proposed work focuses on bird feeding and associated habitat management, arguably the most common form of intentional wildlife attraction, to understand socio-environmental links and emergent outcomes for bird populations and human mental well-being. This project brings together social-ecological data collected weekly by participatory scientists across the continental U.S., feeder management experiments by participatory scientists, social science surveys, and laboratory experiments to test five hypotheses about the integrated links between human components and natural components of the socio-environmental system of bird feeding. The diverse ways in which humans impact birds and their natural enemies and the ways in which birds and their natural enemies influence humans, who then alter their behavior, are explored in this research. These responses are integrated to understand overall effects of the human emotional and behavioral responses on mental well-being, effects of spatial and temporal variation in the abiotic environment, and emergent outcomes for bird populations and human mental well-being over time and space. This proposed transdisciplinary approach investigates the crucial contribution that participatory science can make to socio-environmental systems research, and brings together a team of scientists trained in social and ecological theories and experienced in convergent social-ecological science. The work also engages more than 10,000 volunteers from across the U.S, including a disproportionately high number of women and strong participation of those with physical and mental disabilities, and focuses on improving inclusivity for ethno-racial groups that are currently underrepresented in birdwatching.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.

鸟类喂食是人们故意吸引房屋附近野生动植物的最常见方式，有超过5700万美国人参与鸟类喂养。饲养者可以影响鸟类的数量和多样性，增加该地区的捕食者数量，并增加鸟类的疾病传播。人们还可以通过对他们在喂食者中看到的心理反应来影响人们，从而影响他们的心理健康。该项目解决了一个问题，即我们如何最大程度地利用鸟类和人的鸟类进食的积极好处。为此，正在对喂食者研究鸟类的参与科学项目Project FeederWatch进行了转换，使参与者可以参与被动实验，并从观察结果中输入有关其心理反应的信息。这项研究分析了人们对野生动植物的信念，喂养野生动植物的动机以及性别，年龄，种族以及身体或精神障碍等人口特征的信念如何影响人们的反应。收集到的数据的连续范围还可以研究人们与鸟类之间在季节以及从城市到农村地区运作的这些联系。该项目还旨在了解和实施如何使鸟类喂养和参与科学项目多样化，更好地吸引黑人和土著人，其他有色人种以及残疾人。这些人类改造的栖息地构成了人类世的野生动植物栖息地的越来越多。然而，这些综合的社会环境系统很少被研究。拟议的工作着重于鸟类喂食和相关的栖息地管理，这可以说是有意野生动植物吸引力的最常见形式，以了解鸟类种群和人类心理健康的社会环境联系和新兴成果。该项目汇集了每周由美国连续的参与科学家，参与科学家，社会科学调查和实验室实验进行的喂食者管理实验收集的社会生态数据，以测试有关人类组成部分与社会环境鸟类喂食系统的社会成分之间的综合联系的五个假设。在这项研究中探讨了人类影响鸟类及其自然敌人的潜水方式，以及鸟类及其自然敌人影响人类（随后改变其​​行为）的方式。这些反应是整合的，以了解人类情绪和行为反应对非生物环境中空间和暂时变化的影响以及鸟类种群的新兴结果以及随着时间和空间的人类心理健康的出现。这种拟议的跨学科方法调查了参与科学可以对社会环境系统研究做出的关键贡献，并汇集了一群受过社会和生态学理论培训的科学家团队，并从事融合社会生态科学方面的经验。这项工作还吸引了来自美国各地的10,000多名志愿者，包括妇女的数量不成比例，并在身体和精神障碍的人中参加了强劲的参与，并着重于改善民族种族群体的包容性，这些群体目前在鸟观察中表现不佳。这些奖项均表明了NSF的法定宣教和支持，这是NSF的众多依据，这是NSF的众多支持，其构成的构成了构成的支持。 标准。