Center for Applied Tropical Ecology and Conservation: Biodiversity Conservation Under the Scenario of Climate Change

应用热带生态与保护中心：气候变化情景下的生物多样性保护

• 批准号: 0734826
• 负责人: Elvira Cuevas
• 金额: $ 500万
• 依托单位: University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0734826&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Center; Applied; Tropical; Ecology; Conservation

The University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus (UPR-RP) is renewing its Center for Applied Tropical Ecology (CATEC) via Phase II CREST support. CATEC serves as a catalyst for systemic change ineducational, research development and structural institutional transformation in a Hispanic minorityserving institution. CATEC's mission is to promote a) training of human resources at the graduate,undergraduate and post-doctoral levels, b) state-of-the-art research in conservation biology andenvironmental issues, c) infrastructure improvement, and d) production of relevant results for policy andconservation management. The unifying theme of CATEC is biodiversity conservation under thescenario of climate change. The Molecular Ecology, Evolution and Genetics (MEEG) area will addressconservation issues using molecular markers to understand the phylogeny, the spatial distribution ofgenetic diversity, and species interactions in the Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. The Species andPopulation Management (SPM) area will focus on impact of interactions between exotic and nativespecies, and understanding patterns of regional diversification and distribution of endangered species andspecies of economic importance. The Ecosystem Processes (EP) area will address the question of howspecies, both terrestrial and marine, respond to climate variability, by comparing the effect of paleoclimaticchange with the impact of temporal and spatial variation in climate as well as historicalanthropogenic changes in land use on ecosystem structure and function.

波多黎各大学里奥皮德拉斯校园（UPR-RP）通过II期Crest支持恢复其应用热带生态学中心（CATEC）。 CATEC是西班牙裔少数民族机构中系统性变化，研究发展和结构制度转型的催化剂。 CATEC的使命是促进a）在毕业生，本科和博士后水平的人力资源培训，b）保护生物学和环境问题的最先进研究，c）基础设施改善，d）d）为政策和保护管理的相关结果。 CATEC的统一主题是在气候变化的Thescenario下的生物多样性保护。分子生态学，进化和遗传学（MEEG）区域将使用分子标记来解决问题，以了解波多黎各和加勒比海的系统发育，遗传多样性的空间分布以及物种相互作用。物种和人口管理（SPM）领域将重点关注异国情调和土著人之间相互作用的影响，并了解濒危物种和经济重要性的种类的区域多元化和分布的模式。生态系统过程（EP）区域将通过比较古焦气候变化的影响与气候和空间变化对气候的影响以及土地使用对生态系统结构和功能的历史性变化的影响，解决陆地和海洋种类响应的问题。