The ecology and sustainability of landscapes and cities

全球变化科学紫荆论坛第204期

报告题目：The ecology and sustainability of landscapes and cities

报告时间：2017.07.13  10:00-12:00

报告地点：蒙民伟科技大楼南楼S818室

主讲人： Jianguo Wu  Arizona State University

讲座简介：

It is always fun and worthwhile to search and understand patterns in nature from which humans are preferably removed.  However, in the Age of Man (or Anthropocene) the biosphere is "domesticated", and linking biodiversity, ecosystem function, ecosystem services, and human wellbeing is necessary both in science and practice.   Landscapes represent a pivotal scale domain for such efforts as they provide a common stage for ecological plays and human actions, and couple regional/global scales above and ecosystem/local scales below.  Landscape sustainability is the capacity of a landscape to consistently provide long-term, landscape-specific ecosystem services essential for maintaining and improving human well-being.  Landscape sustainability science (LSS) then is a place-based, use-inspired science of understanding and improving the dynamic relationship between ecosystem services and human well-being in changing landscapes under uncertainties arising from internal feedbacks and external disturbances.  While LSS emphasizes place-based research on landscape and regional scales, significant between-landscape interactions and hierarchical linkages to both finer and broader scales must not be ignored.  To advance LSS, spatially explicit methods are essential.  In this presentation, I will discuss the key concepts, methods, and examples of LSS, illustrating how biodiversity, ecosystem function, ecosystems services, and human wellbeing can be linked in dynamic landscapes, so that ecology is not only relevant to, but also an integral part of, the science and practice of sustainability. 

主讲人简介：

Dean's Distinguished Professor of Landscape Ecology and Sustainability Science, School of Life Sciences & Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.  B.S. (1982) in biology from Inner Mongolia University and M.S. (1987) and Ph.D. (1991) in ecology from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA.  National Science Foundation (NSF) postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University (1991-1992) and Princeton University (1992-1993).  Current research areas: landscape ecology, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, urban ecology, and sustainability science.  Authored 14 books and about 300 journal articles and book chapters (http://LEML.asu.edu/Jingle/).  Co-PI and Leadership Team member for the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research project (CAP-LTER) since its inception in 1997, and a founding faculty member of Global Institute of Sustainability (2004) and School of Sustainability (2007) at Arizona State University.