International Dissertation Enhancement: Interactive Effects of Harvest, Grazing and Fire on Plant Populations and Communities in the Western Ghats, India.

国际论文增强：印度西高止山脉收获、放牧和火灾对植物种群和群落的交互影响。

• 批准号: 1104989
• 负责人: Tamara Ticktin
• 金额: $ 0.51万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-05-01 至 2014-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1104989&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Dissertation; Enhancement; Interactive; Effects

01104989Ticktin/Lisa MandleThis Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement award provides funding for a final trip to India for coPI Mandle to carry out a suite of additional field measurements for her dissertation research. The focus of the study is the interactive effects of harvest, grazing, and fire on the population dynamics of a harvested palm in a prime biodiversity site in India?s Western Ghats, where human activities strongly impact native plant communities. Although a number of studies of demographic effects of palm leaf-harvest have been done previously, this study breaks new intellectual ground through the application of new statistical population modeling techniques. The combination of multi-site comparative studies with explicit experimental studies will strengthen the coPI?s thesis. Research focused at the nexus between native plant populations and human activities is especially valuable in tropical sites such as the Western Ghats. What is learned in this project could potentially be both practically-applicable locally and a model approach for such research at many types of sites, particularly in the tropics. The broader impacts of this project are strong with respect to the level of cross-interaction between countries, the incorporation of Indian colleagues and local people in the field, as well as its potential to develop new modeling and experimental approaches for plant conservation efforts in the face of significant on-going human activities. This enhancement provides additional funding for international research to a current NSF Graduate Research Fellowship awardee.

01104989Ticktin/Lisa Mandlethis博士学位论文增强奖为印度的最后一次旅行提供了资金，用于Copi Mandle，为她的论文研究进行了一系列其他现场测量。 这项研究的重点是收获，放牧和火灾对印度西部最佳生物多样性遗址中收获的棕榈的种群动态的互动效果，其中人类活动对本地植物社区的影响很大。尽管以前已经对棕榈叶 - 收获棕榈叶的人口影响进行了许多研究，但这项研究通过应用新的统计人群建模技术打破了新的智力基础。 多站点比较研究与明确的实验研究的结合将增强COPI的论文。 在天然植物种群和人类活动之间的联系的研究在西高止山脉等热带地点尤其有价值。该项目中所学到的东西可能是实际上可以在本地使用的，也可能是许多类型的网站，尤其是在热带地区的研究模型方法。在国家之间的跨界水平，印度同事和该领域的当地人之间的跨界水平方面，该项目的更广泛的影响是强大的，以及在开发新的建模和实验方法的潜力，以实现植物保护工作面对持续持续的人类活动。 这种增强为当前NSF研究生研究奖学金的国际研究提供了额外的资金。