RAPID: Comparing Historic and Contemporary Plant-Pollinator Interaction Networks to Investigate the Effects of Climate Change and Invasive Species

RAPID：比较历史和当代植物传粉者相互作用网络以调查气候变化和入侵物种的影响

• 批准号: 0934376
• 负责人: Laura Burkle
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: Washington University
• 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: 2009-07-01 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0934376&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Comparing; Historic; Contemporary; Plant

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Pollination services, important both ecologically and economically, are responsible for much of the food that we eat. Pollination of many plant species is currently threatened by anthropogenic forces, including climate change and invasive species. Climate change may be disrupting the timing of plant flowering and the activity of pollinators such that they no longer overlap. Invasive plants may be stealing pollinators away from the native plants that they usually visit. Testing how pollination is being disrupted by climate change and invasive species is difficult because historical information on plant-pollinator interactions is not available in most cases. However, a very detailed dataset of all of the plant-pollinator interactions that were present in Carlinville, IL in the late 1880's provides an important and rare opportunity to compare historic and contemporary patterns. By re-sampling the same areas, these researchers will better understand how climate warming and invasive species are affecting pollination. The urgency of the project stems from the rapid suburban development in this area; the study sites will likely be converted to housing subdivisions in the near future. This research will highlight insect species that have maintained important roles as pollinators through time, despite large changes in the environment, and will show which species are most vulnerable to climate or invasive species related extinctions. These results will have important implications for agricultural plant species that rely on insect pollination as well. The broader impacts of this research include research and training opportunities for students at the high school, undergraduate, and graduate levels as well as a research technician and a post-doctoral associate.

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏与再投资法》（公法111-5）资助的。授粉服务在生态和经济上都重要，是我们所吃的许多食物的原因。 目前，许多植物物种的授粉受到人为力量的威胁，包括气候变化和入侵物种。气候变化可能会破坏植物开花的时机和传粉媒介的活性，使它们不再重叠。侵入性植物可能正在将传粉媒介从他们通常访问的本地植物中窃取。很难测试气候变化和入侵物种如何破坏授粉是很困难的，因为在大多数情况下，关于植物 - 授粉相互作用的历史信息都不可用。但是，在1880年代后期，伊利诺伊州卡林维尔存在的所有植物 - 托管相互作用的数据集非常详细，这为比较历史和现代模式提供了一个重要且难得的机会。通过重新采样相同的区域，这些研究人员将更好地了解气候变暖和入侵物种如何影响授粉。该项目的紧迫性源于该地区的郊区发展；研究地点可能会在不久的将来转换为住房细分。这项研究将强调昆虫物种，尽管环境发生了很大变化，但在随着时间的流逝中一直保持着重要的作用，并将表明哪些物种最容易受到与气候或入侵物种相关的灭绝的影响。这些结果将对依赖昆虫授粉的农业植物物种具有重要意义。这项研究的更广泛影响包括为高中，本科和研究生级别的学生以及研究技术人员和博士后助理的研究和培训机会。