Doctoral Dissertation Research: Ecology, Evolution, and Development: The Conceptual Foundations of Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity in Evolutionary Ecology

博士论文研究：生态学、进化与发展：进化生态学中适应性表型可塑性的概念基础

• 批准号: 1256752
• 负责人: Manfred Laubichler
• 金额: $ 1.68万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-04-01 至 2015-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1256752&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Ecology; Evolution

IntroductionThis doctoral dissertation improvement grant supports research in the history of evolutionary ecology. Specifically, it will investigate attempts to integrate models of adaptive phenotypic plasticity into ecological models of species distribution. The project will focus on how specific social, intellectual, and material contexts in which models of plasticity emerged during the 1960s through 1980s shaped their underlying assumptions and commitments. The grant will support travel to multiple sites to retrieve oral histories and to consult specific archival materials that are essential for reconstructing the influential conceptual and theoretical approaches to investigating adaptive phenotypic plasticity.Intellectual MeritThis project will illuminate an important interface between science and society by placing developments in evolutionary ecology in the context of shifting societal visions of environmental connectivity, vulnerability, and anthropogenic change. It will create new bridges between the history of ecology, environmental history, and the history of genetics and molecular biology, by showing how different visions of environmental change are linked to ideas about genetic mechanisms in ecological and evolutionary processes. It will also contribute to our understanding of trans-disciplinary knowledge transfer by describing the consequences of efforts to integrate theoretical and methodological approaches from ecology and evolutionary biology. Broader ImpactsBy analyzing the complex relationships between theoretical models and empirical research in contextualized investigative settings, this project can generate insights that are highly transferrable to studies of the role and status of models in other scientific fields. In addition, this project has potential to transform the way that scientists think about the broader social and intellectual contexts of their research; the researcher plans to engage ecologists and policy-makers via presentations at scientific meetings, publications in scientific journals, and transdisciplinary workshops. Finally, the results of this project will be used to create educational materials that illustrate science as a practice.

简介本博士论文改进资助支持进化生态学史的研究。具体来说，它将研究将适应性表型可塑性模型整合到物种分布生态模型中的尝试。该项目将重点关注 20 世纪 60 年代至 80 年代可塑性模型出现的特定社会、知识和物质环境如何塑造其基本假设和承诺。该赠款将支持前往多个地点检索口述历史并查阅特定档案材料，这些材料对于重建研究适应性表型可塑性的有影响力的概念和理论方法至关重要。智力价值该项目将通过发展来阐明科学与社会之间的重要界面环境连通性、脆弱性和人为变化的社会视野不断变化的背景下的进化生态学。它将通过展示环境变化的不同观点如何与生态和进化过程中的遗传机制的想法联系起来，在生态学史、环境史以及遗传学和分子生物学史之间建立新的桥梁。它还将通过描述整合生态学和进化生物学的理论和方法论的努力的后果，有助于我们对跨学科知识转移的理解。更广泛的影响通过分析情境化调查环境中理论模型和实证研究之间的复杂关系，该项目可以产生高度可移植到其他科学领域模型的作用和地位的研究的见解。此外，该项目有可能改变科学家对其研究的更广泛的社会和知识背景的思考方式；研究人员计划通过在科学会议上的演讲、科学期刊上的出版物和跨学科研讨会来吸引生态学家和政策制定者的参与。最后，该项目的结果将用于创建说明科学实践的教育材料。