Enhancement of Research Facilities at the Kansas Ecological Reserves

加强堪萨斯生态保护区的研究设施

• 批准号: 9512600
• 负责人: Robert Holt
• 金额: $ 8.4万
• 依托单位: University of Kansas Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-03-01 至 1999-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9512600&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancement; Research; Facilities; Kansas; Ecological

The Kansas Ecolgical Reserves (KER) includes a wide variety of managed natural and experimental areas in the tallgrass prairie-eastern deciduous forest ecotone. Recently ecological research at KER has grown to include a diverse assemblage of individual and collaborative research efforts with a trend toward developing long-term projects and experimentally manipulated ecosystems, both terrestrial and aquatic. Development was assisted by funds from institutional, private, and federal sources. This project will enhance research facilities in three ways: (1) to install a surveyed field grid for georeferencing study sites and field research facilities throughout KER, (2) to expand the database management system and GIS by adding key equipment, such as a UNIX workstation, software, etc., and by establishing a set of core map coverages, and (3) construction of a lath house that will be used for plant population and aquatic studies. The enhancement will supportvongoing research programs, make the field station more attractive for outside investigators, and foster research aimed at larger spatial and temporal scales.

堪萨斯州生态储备（KER）包括塔格草草原 - 东部落叶森林ecotone中的各种托管自然和实验区域。 最近，KER的生态研究已经成长为包括个人和协作研究工作的各种组合，以开发长期项目和实验操纵的生态系统，包括陆地和水生的趋势。 开发得到了机构，私人和联邦消息来源的资金。 该项目将通过三种方式增强研究设施：（1）安装经过调查的研究网站和整个KER的地理发行研究所和现场研究设施，（2）通过添加关键设备（例如Unix）来扩展数据库管理系统和GIS（2）工作站，软件等，并通过建立一组核心地图覆盖范围，以及（3）将用于植物种群和水生研究的板条室。 增强功能将支持Vongo的研究计划，使现场站对外部研究人员更具吸引力，并促进针对更大的空间和时间尺度的研究。