LTER: CAP V: Investigating how relationships between urban ecological infrastructure and human-environment interactions shape the structure and function of urban ecosystems

LTER：CAP V：研究城市生态基础设施和人类与环境相互作用之间的关系如何塑造城市生态系统的结构和功能

基本信息

批准号：
2224662
负责人：
Daniel Childers
金额：
$ 765万
依托单位：
Arizona State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2023-03-01 至 2029-02-28
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2224662&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
LTER CAP Investigating how relationships

项目摘要

Humankind is increasingly an urban species and urban ecosystems are therefore profoundly important. Cities are concentrated consumers of energy and resources and producers of various wastes, but they are also centers of social networks, innovation, efficiency, and solutions. The Central Arizona–Phoenix Long Term Ecological Research program (CAP V) is a research project that includes scientists from a variety of disciplines focused on understanding cities as hybrid ecosystems including both environmental and human components, and their interactions. Understanding urban ecosystems remains the central focus of CAP V after 25 years of innovative research. The interconnectedness of human motivation, behavior, actions, and outcomes with urban ecosystem structure and function leads to a fundamental question addressed by this project. How have/are human-environment interactions mediated by urban ecological infrastructure to shape past, present, and future ecosystem functions? This project will further indicate how we can use knowledge of these relationships to inform more just, transformative, and sustainable futures. Broader societal impacts are intentionally integrated in CAP V research, with many activities involving explicit partnerships with practitioners and communities that historically have had little voice in the future of their city and environment. This work forms a translational link among social-ecological research outcomes, city institutions, and communities with the goal of ultimately making Phoenix, and cities in general, better and more sustainable places to live. CAP research will extend its focus on the theory of Urban Ecological Infrastructure (UEI) as a critical bridge between the system’s biophysical and human/social domains. CAP researchers will continue to explore interdisciplinary urban ecology in residential landscapes, urban waterbodies, desert parks and preserves, while examining the plants, animals, climate, urban design and governance across the metropolitan Phoenix region. New research initiatives will include a focus on environmental justice and equity, as well as urban air quality. The research will develop both knowledge and solutions in underserved and historically neglected communities, including local Indigenous communities. CAP V research is organized around five interdisciplinary areas: 1) ecosystem structure and function and biogeochemical cycling; 2) adaptation and eco-evolutionary dynamics; 3) urban climate, and air quality; 4) urban nature and human perceptions, decisions, and wellbeing; and 5) environmental justice, governance, and transformative futures. Investigating these questions, in the context of the previous 25 years of CAP research, will guide the CAP research endeavor towards more sustainable and resilient futures for U.S. cities and for our increasingly urban society.This award is jointly funded by the Division of Environmental Biology and the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences.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.

人类日益成为城市物种，城市生态系统因此变得极其重要，城市是能源和资源的集中消费者和各种废物的生产者，但它们也是社交网络、创新、效率和解决方案的中心。术语生态研究计划 (CAP V) 是一个由来自不同学科的科学家组成的研究项目，致力于将城市理解为包括环境和人类组成部分的混合生态系统，以及它们之间的相互作用。25 年后，理解城市生态系统仍然是 CAP V 的核心焦点。年人类动机、行为、行动和结果与城市生态系统结构和功能的相互关联引发了该项目解决的一个基本问题：城市生态基础设施如何影响人类与环境的相互作用，从而塑造过去和现在。以及未来的生态系统功能？该项目将进一步表明我们如何利用这些关系的知识来为更公正、变革和可持续的未来提供信息，并有意将其纳入 CAP V 研究中，其中许多活动涉及与从业者和参与者的明确伙伴关系。历史上对未来几乎没有发言权的社区这项工作在社会生态研究成果、城市机构和社区之间建立了转化联系，其目标是最终使菲尼克斯和整个城市成为更好、更可持续的居住地。 CAP研究人员将城市生态基础设施（UEI）理论作为系统生物物理和人类/社会领域之间的关键桥梁，在研究植物的同时，继续探索住宅景观、城市水体、沙漠公园和保护区的跨学科城市生态学。动物，新的研究举措将重点关注环境正义和公平以及城市空气质量，该研究将为服务不足和历史上被遗忘的社区（包括当地土著）开发知识和解决方案。 CAP V 研究围绕五个跨学科领域进行：1）生态系统结构和功能以及生物地球化学循环；3）城市气候和空气质量；和福祉；以及5) 环境正义、治理和变革性的未来，在过去 25 年的 CAP 研究背景下，将指导 CAP 研究努力为美国城市和日益城市化的社会创造更加可持续和有弹性的未来。该奖项由环境生物学部和行为与认知科学部联合资助。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进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（2）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

Evaluating how varied human-wildlife interactions affect physical, mental, social, and spiritual health

评估不同的人类与野生动物相互作用如何影响身体、心理、社会和精神健康

DOI：
10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100302
发表时间：
2023-12
期刊：
SSM - Qualitative Research in Health
影响因子：
0
作者：
Rosales Chavez, Jose;Larson, Kelli L.;Morales Guerrero, Jorge;Clark, Jeffrey A.G.
通讯作者：
Clark, Jeffrey A.G.

Microplastics are ubiquitous and increasing in soil of a sprawling urban area, Phoenix (Arizona)

亚利桑那州凤凰城广阔城区的土壤中，微塑料无处不在，而且数量不断增加