生物多样性 ›› 2023, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (12): 23363.  DOI: 10.17520/biods.2023363

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基于塔吊的林冠科学研究进展及展望

宋亮1,*(), 吴毅1, 胡海霞1,2, 刘文耀1, 中村彰宏1, 陈亚军1, 马克平3   

  1. 1.中国科学院西双版纳热带植物园热带森林生态学重点实验室, 云南勐腊 666303
    2.中国科学院大学, 北京 100049
    3.中国科学院植物研究所植被与环境变化国家重点实验室, 北京 100093
  • 收稿日期:2023-09-26 接受日期:2023-10-31 出版日期:2023-12-20 发布日期:2023-11-30
  • 通讯作者: E-mail: songliang@xtbg.ac.cn
  • 作者简介:第一联系人:#共同第一作者
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金(32171529);云南省基础研究专项(202101AT070059);云南省“兴滇英才支持计划”青年人才项目(YNWR-QNBJ- 2020-066);中国科学院区域发展青年学者项目和中国科学院西双版纳热带植物园“十四五”科技创新规划项目(E3ZKFF7B01)

Research progress and prospects of forest canopy science based on canopy cranes

Liang Song1,*(), Yi Wu1, Haixia Hu1,2, Wenyao Liu1, Akihiro Nakamura1, Yajun Chen1, Keping Ma3   

  1. 1 CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla, Yunnan 666303
    2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049
    3 State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093
  • Received:2023-09-26 Accepted:2023-10-31 Online:2023-12-20 Published:2023-11-30
  • Contact: E-mail: songliang@xtbg.ac.cn
  • About author:First author contact:#Co-first authors

摘要:

林冠是生物圈中物种最为丰富的生境之一。长期以来, 由于森林三维空间复杂性和林冠访问技术的限制, 人们对林冠生物多样性、林冠的结构、功能和生态过程知之甚少。塔吊的应用突破了技术瓶颈, 给林冠科学研究带来了深刻的变革。20世纪80年代以来, 基于全球的林冠塔吊, 国际上先后发起了林冠与土壤节肢动物多样性调查计划、林冠生物学计划、林冠CO2富集和增温实验等一系列科学研究计划, 回答了林冠“有什么、在哪里、怎样变”等基本问题, 极大地推动了林冠科学的发展。本综述首先介绍了林冠访问技术及发展历程。随后, 较为系统地梳理了基于塔吊平台发起的林冠研究计划, 并从林冠生物多样性格局、林冠生态过程和林冠对全球变化的响应与适应3方面总结了相关研究进展。最后, 从林冠访问技术所驱动的重大发现、林冠科学的主要研究框架、林冠科学的地域性与局限性等方面阐述了林冠科学研究计划带来的重要启示, 并提出今后的林冠研究应更多关注“林冠-地面-土壤” 3个层次相互关联形成的整体结构和功能系统, 通过多元异构数据融合和人工智能技术, 从多尺度、全方位解析全球变化背景下, 整体森林的生物多样性格局、生态过程及其服务功能的响应与维持机制。

关键词: 林冠塔吊, 林冠生态学, 生物多样性, 生态过程, 全球变化

Abstract

Background & Aims: Forest canopies are one of the most species-rich habitats in the biosphere. However, the biodiversity, structure, and functional and ecological processes of the forest canopies remain understudied because of the three-dimensional spatial complexity of forests and the limitation of canopy access techniques. Canopy cranes have begun to close this gap by making canopies more accessible. Using canopy cranes, a series of research programs such as Investigating the Biodiversity of Soil and Canopy Arthropods (IBISCA), Tropical Canopy Biology Program (TCBP), Free Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE), and canopy warming experiments have been launched. These programs address the fundamental questions in biology, such as “how many species are there”, “where are they”, and “how do they respond to the changing environment”.

Progress: This review first introduces canopy access techniques and the history of their development. Secondly, it summarizes the research progress of canopy research programs facilitated by canopy cranes with respect to the three aspects: biodiversity patterns, ecological processes in the forest canopies, and their responses and adaptations to global change. Finally, it addresses the important implications of canopy research programs including major discoveries driven by canopy access technologies, main research frameworks, and the regionalism and limitations of forest canopy science.

Prospects: It is proposed that future canopy research should pay attention to the overall ecological structure and processes of the three continuous forest strata (canopy, understory, and soil). Multi-dimensional, global-scale data are needed to elucidate biodiversity patterns, ecological processes and their maintenance mechanisms, and the responses of forest canopies to multi-scale and multifaceted anthropogenic impacts through the integration of multivariate data from heterogeneous sources and artificial intelligence technology.

Key words: canopy crane, canopy ecology, biodiversity, ecological process, global change