IRES US-Kenya: Effects of habitat changes on distribution, abundance and resource exploitation by globally-threatened and forest specialist birds in Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, Kenya

IRES 美国-肯尼亚：栖息地变化对肯尼亚阿拉布科-索科克森林中全球受威胁鸟类和森林特有鸟类的分布、丰度和资源开发的影响

• 批准号: 0927254
• 负责人: Joseph Oyugi
• 金额: $ 13.96万
• 依托单位: City Colleges of Chicago
• 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: 2009-09-15 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0927254&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IRES; US; Kenya; Effects; habitat

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).Professor Joseph Oyugi of Warren Wright College of the City Colleges of Chicago will train undergraduate students from the United States in applied ecological research by investigating how habitat alterations affect bird communities in a tropical forest. Each year for three summers, four undergraduates and one faculty will travel to Kenya to conduct field research in Arabuko-Sokoke Forest. Arabuko-Sokoke Forest in coastal Kenya ranks second as the most important forest for bird conservation in mainland Africa. The 270 bird species known from it include six globally threatened, three near-threatened species, eight species categorized as regionally threatened in eastern Africa and several other forest-specialist birds. Both threatened and forest specialist birds show preference for certain habitat types. However, Arabuko-Sokoke Forest is under severe pressure due to selective logging, pole harvesting for building, fuel wood collection and unplanned tourism activities. These activities have different impacts on the forest and have the potentials of altering the forest structure and negatively affect forest birds including other biodiversity within the forest. Our objective is to examine how these habitat modifications relate to the distribution, abundance and resource exploitation by three rare bird species and three forest specialist birds that occur in Arabuko-Sokoke forest. Specifically, students will use census data, mist netting and the foraging behavior observations to determine the environmental and ecological factors that either promote the success or threaten the survival of these species. The PI collaborates with Alfred Owino, Research Scientist with Biodiversity Research and Monitoring Division at the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) who will be involved in co-mentorship.Intellectual Merit: The project directly addresses concerns that Seymour and Hewitt offered to explain the exodus from science fields: lack of confidence, competitive atmosphere and dullness of subject matter. Students will investigate how birds respond to habitat heterogeneity, and in the end identify the axes of environmental heterogeneity that promote species survival and coexistence. This project will provide US students with opportunity for self discovery through ?hands-on? training in field ecology that includes, field preparations, experimental designs, data collection and analysis, writing and research presentation in workshops, conferences and relevant scientific publications. The proposed research investigations will advance science by elucidating mechanisms structuring the bird community of Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, which includes resource use, resource partitioning and mechanisms of coexistence.Broader Impacts: Wilbur Wright College is a Minority Serving and Hispanic Serving Institution of about 6000 students that is part of the City Colleges of Chicago. This student population increase the diversity of the STEM talent pool from which the nation?s future scientific talent and technical force will be drawn. The proposed study is also ranked among the priority studies by the wildlife management authority in Kenya. The data from this research would provide the required information for the long-term conservation of the Arabuko-Sokoke Forest. In addition, the research will further the knowledge and expertise of local naturalists and tour guides, and indirectly further their careers. This award is co-funded by NSF's Division of Environmental Biology, Directorate for Biological Sciences.

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏与再投资法》（公法111-5）资助的。改变会影响热带森林中的鸟类群落。每年三个夏天，四名本科生和一名教职员工将前往肯尼亚在阿拉伯科科克森林进行实地研究。肯尼亚沿海地区的阿拉伯ko-Sokoke森林排名第二，是非洲大陆保护鸟类的最重要森林。从中已知的270种鸟类包括6种受到全球威胁，三种近乎威胁性的物种，八个物种被归类为在东非和其他几种森林特殊鸟类中受到区域威胁。受到威胁和森林专业鸟类都偏爱某些栖息地类型。但是，由于选择性伐木，建筑物收集杆，收集燃料和计划外旅游活动，阿拉伯ko-sokoke森林受到了巨大压力。这些活动对森林有不同的影响，并具有改变森林结构的潜力，并对森林中的森林鸟类产生负面影响，包括森林中的其他生物多样性。我们的目标是研究这些栖息地的修改如何与阿拉伯科科克森林中三种稀有鸟类和三种森林专业鸟类的分布，丰度和资源剥削有关。具体而言，学生将使用人口普查数据，雾网和觅食行为观察来确定促进成功或威胁这些物种生存的环境和生态因素。 PI与肯尼亚野生动物服务局（KWS）生物多样性研究与监测部的研究科学家Alfred Owino合作，他们将参与会议。科学领域：缺乏信心，竞争氛围和主题的乏味。学生将研究鸟类对栖息地异质性的反应，并最终确定促进物种生存和共存的环境异质性的轴。这个项目将为我们的学生提供动手自我发现的机会吗？现场生态学的培训，包括现场准备，实验设计，数据收集和分析，在研讨会，会议和相关科学出版物中的写作和研究演示。拟议的研究调查将通过阐明构建阿拉伯科克索克森林的鸟类社区的机制，包括资源使用，资源分配和共存的机制。那是芝加哥城市学院的一部分。该学生人数增加了STEM人才库的多样性，该国未来的科学人才和技术力量将被吸引。拟议的研究还被肯尼亚的野生动植物管理机构评为优先研究。这项研究的数据将为阿拉伯 - 苏科克森林的长期保护提供所需的信息。此外，这项研究将进一步进一步的知识和专业知识和专业知识，并间接地进一步进一步进一步发展其职业。该奖项由NSF的生物科学局共同资助。