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项目编号: 1349662
项目名称:
Collaborative Research: Megaherbivore and climatic controls on fire and vegetation dynamics during the last deglaciation
作者: James Russell
承担单位: Brown University
批准年: 2013
开始日期: 2014-06-01
结束日期: 2018-05-31
资助金额: USD81957
资助来源: US-NSF
项目类别: Standard Grant
国家: US
语种: 英语
特色学科分类: Biological Sciences - Environmental Biology
英文关键词: past vegetation composition ; last deglaciation ; postdoctoral research scientist ; fire dynamics ; fire regime ; new research
英文摘要: Ecologists have long sought to understand how species reshuffle into novel ecological communities during periods of major environmental change, and the consequences of this reshuffling for the services that those ecological communities provide for human society. This project capitalizes on a major historical event - massive changes in plant communities roughly 17,000 years ago - to determine the relative roles that climate change, species interactions, and fire played in the creation of novel communities. Results from this research will inform contemporary debates about the potential for climate change to create 'no analog' communities that differ fundamentally in their structure, function, and the services they provide to society. They will also guide management practices intended to restore communities to prior states and improve our understanding of the consequences of widespread extinctions.

This project builds on prior evidence that plant communities changed dramatically during the last deglaciation because the extinction of large grazers released plants from herbivore suppression. New research will test the novel Megafaunal Release Hypothesis by assessing the relative importance of climate and species interactions on vegetation and fire dynamics. The investigators will collect and analyze a series of lake-sediment cores in the eastern US, and quantify relationships among independent climatic and ecological proxies within and across sites in order to test the Megafaunal Release Hypothesis. Eight new lake sites will be analyzed for indicators of past vegetation composition (fossil pollen), fire regime (sedimentary charcoal), megafaunal abundance (spores from fungi found in dung), and temperature (organic geochemistry). Broader impacts include the mentoring and training of a postdoctoral research scientist, a graduate student, and several undergraduates, and the expansion of collaborations among paleontologists, geographers, and ecologists to understand future environmental change. All data will be made publicly available through standard community data repositories.
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/96708
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James Russell. Collaborative Research: Megaherbivore and climatic controls on fire and vegetation dynamics during the last deglaciation. 2013-01-01.
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