通过区域生物多样性收集,稳定同位素分析和环境信息学来实现淡水中的长期生态研究
Thomas F Turner1, Henry L Bart1, Frank McCormick1
1Thomas F. Turner is affiliated with the Museum of Southwestern Biology and Center for Stable Isotopes, at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States. Henry L. Bart Jr. is affiliated with the Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute, at Tulane University, in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States. Frank H. McCormick is affiliated with US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service at the Rocky Mountain Research Station, in Fort Collins, Colorado, in the United States. Alexi C. Besser is affiliated with the Department of Biology and with the Center for Stable Isotopes, at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States. Rachel E. Bowes is affiliated with the Department of Biological Sciences at Emporia State University, in Emporia, Kansas, in the United States. Krista A. Capps is affiliated with the Odum School of Ecology and with the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory of the University of Georgia, in Athens, Georgia, in the United States. Emily S. DeArmon is affiliated with the Museum of Southwestern Biology at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States. Casey B. Dillman is affiliated with the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, part of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, in the United States. Katelyn P. Driscoll is affiliated with USDA Forest Service at the Rocky Mountain Research Station, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States. Aubrey Dugger is affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research, in Boulder, Colorado, in the United States. Gregor L. Hamilton is affiliated with the Department of Biology and with the Museum of Southwestern Biology and the Center for Stable Isotopes at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States. Phillip M. Harris is affiliated with the Department of Biological Sciences at The University of Alabama, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in the United States. Dean A. Hendrickson is affiliated with the Department of Integrative Biology and with the Biodiversity Center at the University of Texas at Austin, in Austin, Texas, in the United States. Joel Hoffman is affiliated with the US Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development, Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure, Great Lakes Toxicology and Ecology Division, in Duluth, Minnesota, in the United States. Jason H. Knouft is affiliated with the Department of Biology at Saint Louis University, in St. Louis, Missouri, and with the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center, in East Alton, Illinois, in the United States. Ryan F. Lepak is affiliated with the US Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development, Center for Computational Toxicology and Exposure, Great Lakes Toxicology and Ecology Division, in Duluth, Minnesota, in the United States. Hernán López-Fernández is affiliated with the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and with the Museum of Zoology at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the United States. Carmen G. Montaña is affiliated with the Department of Biology at Stephen F. Austin State University, in Nacogdoches, Texas, in the United States. Seth D. Newsome is affiliated with the Department of Biology and with the Center for Stable Isotopes at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States. Allison A. Pease is affiliated with the School of Natural Resources at the University of Missouri, in Columbia, Missouri, in the United States. W. Leo Smith is affiliated with the Biodiversity Institute and with the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas, in Lawrence, Kansas, in the United States. Christopher A. Taylor is affiliated with the Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, in the United States. Rachel L. Welicky is affiliated with the College of Communications, Arts, and Sciences at Neumann University, in Aston, Pennsylvania, in the United States, and with the Unit for Environmental Resources and Management at North-West University, in Potchefstroom, Republic of South Africa.
生物多样性收集和稳定同位素分析 (SIA) 为生态研究提供了强大的工具. 将这些与环境信息学相结合,可以进行长期的生态变化评估和预测.
科学领域:
- 生态生态学 生态生态学
- 生物信息学是一种生物信息学.
- 地质化学 地质化学
背景情况:
- 生物多样性收藏是越来越有价值的研究资源.
- 新兴技术和信息学正在推动其使用方面的创新.
- 稳定同位素分析 (SIA) 提供了一种解释生态数据的方法.
研究的目的:
- 通过整合生物多样性收集,SIA和环境信息学来探索变革性的生态研究.
- 评估评估长期生态变化的潜力.
- 为回顾性研究和生态预测提供框架.
主要方法:
- 将生物多样性收集的数据与稳定同位素分析相结合.
- 利用环境信息学来解释和整合数据.
- 利用现有的数据库和观察站.
主要成果:
- SIA为生态数据提供了一个共同的货币,类似于基因组DNA.
- 跨集合集成的SIA数据可以在多个尺度上评估生态变化.
- 该框架为回顾性研究和预测提供了基准.
结论:
- 在SIA (稀疏样本,基线数据,保存效应) 的挑战是可以克服的.
- 这种综合方法为淡水生态学增加了历史背景.
- 它为生态系统监测和恢复评估提供了参考点.
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