NSF Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY 2009

2009 财年 NSF 少数族裔博士后研究奖学金

• 批准号: 0906006
• 负责人: Lisa Nelis
• 金额: $ 18.9万
• 依托单位: Nelis Lisa C
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0906006&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Minority; Postdoctoral; Research; Fellowship

This action funds an NSF Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY 2009 and is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The fellowship supports a research and training plan in a host laboratory for the Fellow who also presents a plan to broaden participation in biology. The title of the research and training plan for this fellowship to Lisa C. Nelis is "Interactions among invasive non-native plants and insects in California grasslands." The host institution for this research is the Stanford University under the sponsorship of Dr. Deborah Gordon.Argentine ant invasions and grassland plant invasions are known individually to impact native species negatively, yet like most other ecological systems, there has been no research on how these spatially overlapping invasions interact. If interactions between these invaders result in facilitation, the negative consequences to the native species may be strong. This project is combining field and laboratory research with modeling to determine what interactions are taking place between Argentine ants and exotic grassland plants in California, determine how those interactions affect the community of plants and insects, and predict the long-term effect of Argentine ant and exotic plant exclusion on plant and insect communities. The invasion dynamics are also being compared between populations of the same plant species in California to those collected in Chile.Training objectives include expanding experimental and modeling experience and new opportunities for collaborations and publications. Additionally, the project is seeking to understand the complex and scientifically interesting interactions among invasive Argentine ants and plants, provide information useful in conservation, and integrate education and outreach for underrepresented groups in research. The results are being provided to managers of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (fieldwork site), and the Fellow is a mentor in the Ecological Society of America SEEDS outreach program and an outreach program to include minority high school students in basic research.

该行动资助 2009 财年 NSF 少数族裔博士后研究奖学金，并根据 2009 年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法 111-5）提供资助。该奖学金支持研究员在主办实验室的研究和培训计划，该研究员还提出了扩大生物学参与的计划。丽莎·C·内利斯 (Lisa C. Nelis) 的研究和培训计划的标题是“加州草原入侵性非本地植物和昆虫之间的相互作用”。这项研究的主办机构是由 Deborah Gordon 博士赞助的斯坦福大学。众所周知，阿根廷蚂蚁入侵和草原植物入侵会对本地物种产生负面影响，但与大多数其他生态系统一样，目前还没有研究表明这些入侵如何影响本地物种。空间重叠的入侵相互作用。如果这些入侵者之间的相互作用导致促进，对本地物种的负面影响可能会很大。该项目将实地和实验室研究与建模相结合，以确定阿根廷蚂蚁和加利福尼亚州外来草原植物之间正在发生哪些相互作用，确定这些相互作用如何影响植物和昆虫群落，并预测阿根廷蚂蚁和昆虫的长期影响。植物和昆虫群落中外来植物的排斥。还将加利福尼亚州与智利收集的相同植物物种种群之间的入侵动态进行比较。培训目标包括扩大实验和建模经验以及合作和出版的新机会。 此外，该项目正在寻求了解入侵性阿根廷蚂蚁和植物之间复杂且具有科学意义的相互作用，提供对保护有用的信息，并将教育和外展活动纳入研究中代表性不足的群体。 结果将提供给中半岛地区开放空间区（实地工作地点）的管理人员，该研究员是美国生态学会 SEEDS 外展项目和一项将少数族裔高中生纳入基础研究的外展项目的导师。