U.S.-Australia IRES Collaboration: Behavioral ecology research training in Australia's tropical savannah

美国-澳大利亚 IRES 合作：澳大利亚热带草原的行为生态学研究培训

• 批准号: 1131614
• 负责人: Jordan Karubian
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Tulane University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-01-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1131614&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; Australia; IRES; Collaboration; Behavioral

This International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) award is made to Professor Jordan Karubian in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. The 21 participating U.S. graduate and undergraduate students will collaborate for two months over a period of three years with researchers in the School for Environmental Research at Charles Darwin University in Australia. Their foreign collaborators at the Institute are Professor Michael Lawes and Professor Donald Franklin. The students will study avian behavioral ecology and fire ecology research in the world?s largest remaining tropical savannah habitat. The research will develop an understanding of the relationship between the environment, demography, and the mating system of the red-backed fairy-wren. The students will exploit the considerable flexibility these wrens exhibit in social organization, expression of sexual signals, and mating behavior in an area in which ecological conditions vary in a patchwork manner. By characterizing the degree to which the wrens use flexible behavioral and physiological strategies to negotiate the ecological and social environment that they experience, and comparing this reproductive flexibility with other tropical and temperate species, it is likely that this research will further our understanding of avian mating systems and how they respond to anthropogenic activities. The program will provide technical training in cutting edge behavioral ecology methods and will build the capacity of these students to work with foreign collaborators in the future. The researchers also plan to include Australian Aboriginal groups in their field research projects.A major emphasis of the project is to engage U.S. students in meaningful projects with international students and faculty. Students will work closely with researchers with different scientific backgrounds and will learn field and laboratory techniques that will enhance their research skills. Altogether, these experiences will increase the networking and international competitiveness of the student participants. The research program will have broad impacts on biological education and research.

该国际学生研究经验（IRES）奖是向路易斯​​安那州新奥尔良杜兰大学生态与进化生物学系的Jordan Karubian教授颁发的。 21名参加美国毕业生和本科生将在澳大利亚查尔斯·达尔文大学（Charles Darwin University）的环境研究学院与研究人员合作两个月。 他们在研究所的外国合作者是迈克尔·劳斯（Michael Lawes）教授和唐纳德·富兰克林（Donald Franklin）教授。学生将研究世界上最大的热带萨凡纳栖息地的鸟类行为生态学和火灾生态学研究。 这项研究将对环境，人口统计学和红色支持的童话般的交配系统之间的关系有所了解。 学生将在生态条件以拼凑而成的领域中，在社会组织中表现出的这些WRES在社会组织中表现出的相当大的灵活性以及交配行为。 通过表征WRES的程度使用灵活的行为和生理策略来协商他们所经历的生态和社会环境，并将这种生殖柔韧性与其他热带和温带物种进行比较，这项研究很可能会进一步了解我们对鸟类交配系统的理解以及他们如何响应人类激发活动。该计划将在尖端行为生态学方法中提供技术培训，并将建立这些学生将来与外国合作者合作的能力。 研究人员还计划将澳大利亚原住民群体包括在其实地研究项目中。该项目的主要重点是让美国学生与国际学生和教职员工一起参与有意义的项目。 学生将与具有不同科学背景的研究人员紧密合作，并将学习将提高其研究技能的现场和实验室技术。 总的来说，这些经验将提高学生参与者的网络和国际竞争力。 该研究计划将对生物教育和研究产生广泛的影响。