Collaborative Research: Understanding Temporal Variation in Primate Communities: Integrating Data from Extant and Fossil Species

合作研究：了解灵长类动物群落的时间变化：整合现存物种和化石物种的数据

• 批准号: 1551810
• 负责人: Kaye Reed
• 金额: $ 6.35万
• 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: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-04-15 至 2020-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1551810&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Understanding; Temporal; Variation

The distribution of species across the globe is influenced by several factors including climate, habitat, evolutionary history, and interactions with other organisms. Research on species distribution has primarily focused on modern climate variation and species distributions. In this project, a novel combination of paleontological and modern ecological data will be used to examine how past climate patterns and competition among mammals have contributed to current primate biodiversity. As habitat loss and fragmentation are occurring worldwide, research investigating the factors determining primate biodiversity has implications for conservation management and maintaining the integrity of tropical forest ecosystems. Obtaining a better understanding of how primate distributions change through time and in response to changing environments will inform models for predicting shifts in primate ranges and community structure for future climates and habitat changes. The project will include the development of a database and web-based science education resources, and training of students from traditionally under-represented populations in the STEM fields. Students will gain important skills in data management and analyses that can subsequently be used in a wide variety of future career paths. The project seeks to examine primate community phylogenetic and trait structure across space and through time with abiotic and biotic factors suggested to cause the changing distributions and adaptations of primate species. The project is unique because fossil species locations and traits will be integrated with extant community data for macro-ecological and evolutionary analyses. Some of the questions addressed will be: Do communities found in similar environments, but on different continents, converge on the same structures? Do climate patterns from the Miocene through the present influence primate community structure? Do the presence and diversity of non-primate mammals that are potential primate competitors impact primate community structure? Are trait and phylogenetic structures of fossil primate communities predicted by climatic characteristics? The research proposed in this project will address topics that are central to understanding the modern and past distribution and coexistence of primates and other mammals. Using a community-level approach is essential for understanding how species interact to impact the evolution of each other's behavior, ecology, and morphology. Obtaining a better understanding of how primate communities change through time and in response to changing environments will inform models for predicting future shifts in primate distributions and community structure related to climate and habitat change.

全球物种的分布受气候，栖息地，进化史以及与其他生物的相互作用在内的几个因素的影响。物种分布的研究主要集中在现代气候变化和物种分布上。在这个项目中，将使用古生物学和现代生态数据的新型组合来研究哺乳动物过去的气候模式和竞争如何促进当前的灵长类动物生物多样性。随着栖息地的丧失和破碎化发生在全球范围内，研究了决定灵长类动物生物多样性的因素对保护管理和维持热带森林生态系统的完整性具有影响。了解灵长类动物分布如何随着时间的流逝和对不断变化的环境的响应而获得更好的了解，将为您预测灵长类动物范围和社区结构的转变提供信息，以实现未来的气候和栖息地的变化。该项目将包括开发数据库和基于网络的科学教育资源，以及对STEM领域中传统代表人群传统人群的学生的培训。学生将获得数据管理和分析的重要技能，这些技能随后可以在各种未来的职业道路上使用。 该项目旨在检查灵长类动物群落的系统发育和特质结构在整个空间之间，并且随着时间的流逝，其非生物和生物因素建议引起灵长类动物的分布和适应性的变化。该项目是独一无二的，因为化石物种位置和特征将与现存的社区数据集成，以进行宏观生态和进化分析。解决的一些问题将是：在类似环境中发现的社区是否存在，但是在不同的大陆上会汇聚在相同的结构上？中新世到当前的气候模式是否影响灵长类动物社区的结构？潜在的灵长类动物竞争者的非成群哺乳动物的存在和多样性会影响灵长类动物的社区结构吗？化石灵长类动物群落的性状和系统发育结构是否由气候特征预测？该项目中提出的研究将介绍有关理解灵长类动物和其他哺乳动物的现代和过去分布和共存的核心。使用社区级别的方法对于理解物种如何相互作用以影响彼此行为，生态学和形态的演变至关重要。了解灵长类动物社区如何随着时间的流逝和对不断变化的环境的响应有了更好的了解，将为预测灵长类动物分布的未来变化以及与气候和栖息地变化有关的社区结构的未来变化提供信息。