NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology for FY 2011

2011 财年 NSF 生物学博士后奖学金

• 批准号: 1103087
• 负责人: Rudolf von-May
• 金额: $ 18.9万
• 依托单位: von-May Rudolf
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-12-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1103087&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Postdoctoral; Fellowship; Biology; FY

This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology for FY 2011, Broadening Participation. 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 Rudolf von May is "Habitat shifts and physiology of high-elevation Andean frogs." The host institution for the fellowship is the University of California, Berkeley and the sponsoring scientist is Dr. Craig Moritz.In a rapidly changing world, many species are faced with shrinking native habitat, expanding new habitats, and novel climatic conditions. Tropical montane regions are of special concern because they are centers of unique biodiversity. While much attention has been given to modeling and predicting habitat-related range shifts in montane organisms, especially in the context of climate change, the underlying evolutionary factors and mechanisms of response to habitat change remain poorly understood. This research is improving our understanding of the evolutionary history of Andean frogs and explaining how major shifts in habitat are also influenced by physiological attributes and distributions of related taxa. It maps the distributions of ground-breeding frogs within forested and open habitats across elevations, tracing habitat preferences using an existing phylogeny constructed with molecular genetic data. Empirical data on physiological characteristics including thermal tolerance, desiccation tolerance, and locomotion of sister taxa pairs are being collected for species distribution modeling to gain insights of current and past species distributions and to improve predictions on future distributions. Training objectives include molecular systematics, phylogeography, physiology, and species distribution modeling. Broader impacts include capacity-building and advanced training for minority students from the United States, students in Latin America, and an outreach program to promote ecological literacy about local and tropical biodiversity. Outreach focuses on developing a science education partnership with local teachers. The teaching option includes a short course on tropical ecology and evolution for undergraduate students from universities in the US and Peru.

该行动资助 2011 财年 NSF 生物学博士后研究奖学金，扩大参与范围。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。鲁道夫·冯·梅的这项研究和培训计划的标题是“高海拔安第斯青蛙的栖息地转变和生理学”。该奖学金的主办机构是加州大学伯克利分校，赞助科学家是克雷格·莫里茨博士。 在瞬息万变的世界中，许多物种面临着本土栖息地缩小、新栖息地扩大和新的气候条件的问题。热带山地地区受到特别关注，因为它们是独特生物多样性的中心。尽管人们对山地生物与栖息地相关的范围变化进行建模和预测（特别是在气候变化的背景下）给予了很多关注，但对栖息地变化的潜在进化因素和响应机制仍然知之甚少。这项研究正在增进我们对安第斯青蛙进化史的理解，并解释栖息地的重大变化如何受到相关类群的生理属性和分布的影响。它绘制了地面繁殖青蛙在不同海拔森林和开阔栖息地的分布图，利用分子遗传数据构建的现有系统发育来追踪栖息地偏好。 正在收集有关生理特征的经验数据，包括耐热性、干燥耐受性和姐妹类群对的运动，用于物种分布建模，以深入了解当前和过去的物种分布，并改进对未来分布的预测。 培训目标包括分子系统学、系统发育地理学、生理学和物种分布模型。 更广泛的影响包括针对美国少数族裔学生和拉丁美洲学生的能力建设和高级培训，以及提高当地和热带生物多样性生态素养的外展计划。外展重点是与当地教师建立科学教育伙伴关系。教学选项包括为美国和秘鲁大学的本科生开设关于热带生态学和进化论的短期课程。