International Planning Grant: Pollination in a Biodiversity Hotspot

国际规划补助金：生物多样性热点地区的授粉

• 批准号: 0852846
• 负责人: Tia-Lynn Ashman
• 金额: $ 1.98万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-05-01 至 2013-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0852846&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Planning; Grant; Pollination; Biodiversity

The international planning grant will facilitate the development of collaboration between the PI Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman at the University of Pittsburgh and Drs. Conchita Alonso and Carlos Herrera of Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC) in Seville, Spain. The ultimate research objective is to determine the response of pollination and pollen limitation of plant reproduction to increasing diversity across a wide range of plant community diversities, and determine whether this relationship differs for endemics. The work will take advantage of a hotspot of plant diversity in the Baetic Mountain Ranges of southern Spain. The goal of the planning grant is to jointly conduct feasibility studies and to gather the necessary preliminary data that will inform the design and implementation of the crucial experimental tests of hypotheses concerning the mechanisms that underlie global pollen limitation-biodiversity gradients. The project will contribute to the development of two students as members of a global community of scientists. This work will ultimately result in a better understanding of the relationship between plant-pollinator interactions and biodiversity, which is important for effective conservation of both plants and pollinators, especially in the face of modern threats such as changing climate, pollinator declines and habitat loss.

国际规划赠款将支持匹兹堡大学PI Tia-Lynn Ashman博士与博士之间的合作发展。西班牙塞维利亚的EstaciónbiológicaDeDoñana（CSIC）的Conchita Alonso和Carlos Herrera。最终的研究目标是确定植物繁殖的授粉和花粉限制的响应，以增加广泛的植物群落多样性的多样性，并确定这种关系是否有不同的内在。这项工作将利用西班牙南部的baetic山区山脉的植物多样性。计划赠款的目的是共同进行可行性研究，并收集必要的初步数据，这些数据将为有关全球花粉限制生物多样性梯度的机制的至关重要的实验测试的设计和实施。该项目将有助于两名学生作为全球科学家社区成​​员的成员的发展。这项工作最终将使人们更好地了解植物 - 托管机构相互作用与生物多样性之间的关系，这对于有效保护植物和传粉媒介很重要，尤其是面对现代威胁，例如气候变化，授粉媒介的衰落和栖息地丧失。