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Nutrient Mobilization and
Species Introductions
Analyzing a Science Scenario to
Define Critical Site and Network
Functionality
Overarching Questions:
• (1) Under what circumstances is society able to
manage the social origins and ecological
dynamics of nutrient mobilization and species
introductions and under what circumstances
does society fail?
• (2) Does society perceive and respond
differentially to changes in regulating,
provisioning, and cultural ecosystem services
caused by human alterations in nutrient
mobilization and species introductions?
Feedback loop: the linkages between social and
ecological systems with respect to nutrient
mobilization and species introductions
External Drivers
Socio-Cultural-Economic
Systems
Cognition, Behavior &
Institutions:
Ecological Systems
Q6
Nutrient Mobilization
&
Species Introductions
Point source
• Environmental awareness
• Regulatory changes
• Incentive programs
Natural
Community
Structure:
Diffuse
Anthropogenic
Q1
Q5
• Producer biomass
• Species composition
• Species diversity
• Trophic structure &
complexity
Q2
Human Outcomes:
• Demographic & social change
• Economies and livelihoods
• Human health
• Landscape conversion
Ecosystem
Processes:
Ecosystem Services:
Q4
Regulating: Water quality,
maintenance of species diversity
Provisioning: Biofuels, feed,
fiber, timber, fisheries
Cultural: Recreation, tourism,
aesthetics, education
• Net primary production
• Nutrient cycling and
export
Q3
External Drivers
Q1: How do changes in the mobilization of
Socio-Cultural-Economic
diffuse
and non-diffuse sources of nutrients
Systems
derived from
both human and natural
origins
Nutrient
Mobilization
interact to influence producer biomass, &
Cognition,
diversity,
netBehavior
primary&production and
nutrient
Species
Introductions
Q6
Institutions:
cycling?
Point source
• Environmental
awareness
Approach:
Field
experiments that
alter rates Diffuse
• Regulatory changes
and •patterns
of nutrient mobilization.
Incentive programs
Natural
Anthropogenic Q1
CI Needs:
•Sensor networks for soil moisture,
temperature, Q5
and CO2
•Wireless network to transmit data from field
site to
fieldOutcomes:
station
Human
•Software
to upload data into a database and
• Demographic & social change
Ecosystem Services:
QA/QC
it and livelihoods
• Economies
• Human health
Regulating:
•Web
programs to display graphs of
data inWater quality,
• Landscape conversion
maintenance of species diversity
near real-time
Provisioning: Biofuels, feed,
Q4
fiber, timber, fisheries
Cultural: Recreation, tourism,
aesthetics, education
Q3
Ecological Systems
Community
Structure:
• Producer biomass
• Species composition
• Species diversity
• Trophic structure &
complexity
Q2
Ecosystem
Processes:
• Net primary production
• Nutrient cycling and
export
External Drivers
Q2. How do alterations in the sources and rates
of Socio-Cultural-Economic
nutrient mobilization and species
introductions
influence the interaction between
Systems
Nutrient
Mobilization
community structure and ecosystem
processes?
&
Approach:
Various
kinds
Cognition,
Behavior
& of process models
Species Introductions
Q6
Institutions:
CI Needs:
Point source
Diffuse
•Storage
of model
output
• Environmental
awareness
• Regulatory
changes system
•Model
versioning
• Incentive programs
Natural
Anthropogenic Q1
•Modeling expertise
Q5
Ecological Systems
Community
Structure:
• Producer biomass
• Species composition
• Species diversity
• Trophic structure &
complexity
Q2
Human Outcomes:
• Demographic & social change
• Economies and livelihoods
• Human health
• Landscape conversion
Ecosystem
Processes:
Ecosystem Services:
Q4
Regulating: Water quality,
maintenance of species diversity
Provisioning: Biofuels, feed,
fiber, timber, fisheries
Cultural: Recreation, tourism,
aesthetics, education
• Net primary production
• Nutrient cycling and
export
Q3
External Drivers
Q3: How do changes in nutrient dynamics and
species
introductions affect the types and
Socio-Cultural-Economic
amountsSystems
of services that ecosystems
provide?
Nutrient Mobilization
Approach: Sites will determine how much&a
Cognition,
& before measurable
system
canBehavior
be altered
Species Introductions
Q6
Institutions:
changes in services provided are detectable.
Point source
• Environmentalservices
awareness (food, fiber,
Provisioning
biofuels) areDiffuse
• Regulatory changes
measured
as yields and quality.Natural
Regulatory
• Incentive programs
Anthropogenic Q1
services (flood control, water quality) are
valued for their assimilative and transformative
capacities. Q5
CI Needs:
•Data
of many new types will need to be
Human Outcomes:
managed
• Demographic & social change
•New
standards
development for Ecosystem Services:
• Economies
and livelihoods
• Human health
Regulating: Water quality,
measurements/units?
• Landscape conversion
Q4
maintenance of species diversity
Provisioning: Biofuels, feed,
fiber, timber, fisheries
Cultural: Recreation, tourism,
aesthetics, education
Q3
Ecological Systems
Community
Structure:
• Producer biomass
• Species composition
• Species diversity
• Trophic structure &
complexity
Q2
Ecosystem
Processes:
• Net primary production
• Nutrient cycling and
export
External Drivers
Q4: How do cultural and regulating services
affected
by alterations in the sources and rates
Socio-Cultural-Economic
of nutrientSystems
mobilization and species introductions
Nutrient Mobilization
influence humans as non-consumptive
users?
&
(i.e.,Cognition,
who lives
where)
Behavior
&
Species Introductions
Q6 surveys to
Institutions:
Approach:
Repeated household
Point
source
Diffuse
determine
whether
human values,
perceptions,
• Environmental
awareness
• Regulatory changes
and behaviors
towards different ecosystem
• Incentive programs
Natural
Anthropogenic Q1
services change over time. Survey data will feed
into social/economic models
CI Needs:
Q5
•Model and model output management
Human Outcomes:
• Demographic & social change
• Economies and livelihoods
• Human health
• Landscape conversion
Q4
Community
Structure:
• Producer biomass
• Species composition
• Species diversity
• Trophic structure &
complexity
Q2
Ecosystem
Processes:
Ecosystem Services:
Regulating: Water quality,
maintenance of species diversity
Provisioning: Biofuels, feed,
fiber, timber, fisheries
Cultural: Recreation, tourism,
aesthetics, education
Ecological Systems
• Net primary production
• Nutrient cycling and
export
Q3
External Drivers
Socio-Cultural-Economic
Systems
Cognition, Behavior &
Institutions:
• Environmental awareness
• Regulatory changes
• Incentive programs
Q5
Human Outcomes:
• Demographic & social change
• Economies and livelihoods
• Human health
• Landscape conversion
Q5: What determines how society chooses
between protecting different ecosystem
Ecological Systems
services threatened by human-induced
Nutrient Mobilization
changes
in nutrient mobilization and species
&
Community
introductions?
Species Introductions
Q6Approach: Sites will characterize local Structure:
and
• Producer biomass
Point source
Diffuse
regional
government
agencies and non• Species composition
government organizations’
monitoring
• Species diversity
Natural
Anthropogenic Q1
• Trophic structure &
(cognition) of different sources of nutrient
complexity
loading and species introductions and their
adverse consequences to different types of
Q2
ecosystem services.
CI Needs:
Ecosystem
•New data types: administrative and legal
Processes:
Ecosystem
Services: editorial opinions,
records,
news articles,
political
campaign
issues, and election
Regulating:
Water quality,
• Net results,
primary production
maintenance
of species
diversity
• Nutrient
cycling and
household
and
organizational
surveys,
laws,
Provisioning: Biofuels, feed,
export
enforcement
Q4BMPs,
fiber,
timber, fisheries programs
•GIS Cultural: Recreation, tourism, Q3
aesthetics, education
External Drivers
Socio-Cultural-Economic
Systems
Cognition, Behavior &
Institutions:
• Environmental awareness
• Regulatory changes
• Incentive programs
Ecological Systems
Q6
Nutrient Mobilization
&
Species Introductions
Point source
Natural
Community
Structure:
Diffuse
Anthropogenic
Q1
• Producer biomass
• Species composition
• Species diversity
• Trophic structure &
complexity
Q6a.Q5Are mechanisms employed to reduce human alterations in
nutrient mobilization and species introductions effective? Q2
Q6b. What unintended consequences arise from mechanisms
Human
Outcomes: to reduce human alterations in nutrient mobilization
employed
Ecosystem
• Demographic
social changeintroductions?
and&species
Processes:
Ecosystem Services:
• Economies and livelihoods
Approach: Evaluation of the effectiveness of regulatory and
• Human health
Regulating: Water quality,
• Net primary production
• Landscape
conversion
policy
changes, educational
and
marketing
campaigns,
maintenance of species diversity
•and
Nutrient cycling and
Provisioning:
Biofuels,
feed,
export
financial incentiveQ4
programs
fiber, timber, fisheries
Q3
CI Needs:
Cultural: Recreation, tourism,
aesthetics,
education
•New data types: regulatory
acts,
zoning changes, permitting,
citations
•GIS
Questions for discussion
• How much new data will the new research agenda be producing?
How much data will be flowing among sites?
• What new kinds of data will need to be managed? Is the
management of these new data types significantly different from an
IM perspective?
• How many people will be needed at sites to handle the new
information management demands? What type of expertise will
these people need?
• Are there new standards that will need to be developed?
• What will the critical training needs be?
• For cross-site projects, should data management be centralized or
distributed? Model management?
• What resources are needed at the network level vs. the site level?