NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology FY 2020

2020 财年 NSF 生物学博士后奖学金

• 批准号: 2010989
• 负责人: Andrew George
• 金额: $ 13.8万
• 依托单位: George, Andrew Bradley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-01 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2010989&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Postdoctoral; Fellowship; Biology; FY

This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology for FY 2020, Research Using Biological Collections. The fellowship supports research and training of the Fellow that will utilize biological collections in innovative ways. This project will assess the impacts of protection status on frog and fish diversity in Amazonian Northeast Peru’s Yaguas watershed. The Amazon basin is home to over 400 amphibian species and the highest biodiversity of freshwater fishes in the world. Conserving this biodiversity is critical to maintaining healthy Amazonian ecosystems, which influence global climate patterns. These habitats are often disturbed by human activities, resulting in biodiversity losses. Conservationists aim to prevent these losses by establishing protected areas. However, the impacts of these protected areas remain poorly understood. Comprehensive ecosystem health monitoring requires the integration of both the number of species present and the ecological functions performed by each species. The most vulnerable species often perform unique ecological roles, and the loss of just one of them may translate to a high loss of functional diversity, leaving ecosystems more damaged than biodiversity data alone could predict. This project will improve our understanding of current conservation efforts by incorporating functional diversity into ecosystem monitoring practices. Methods developed in this study will be applicable to a variety of ecosystems and the results will help assess the urgency of the proposed Bajo Putumayo Protection Area, adjacent to Yaguas National Park. The Yaguas watershed provides a unique opportunity to assess the impacts of protection status on wildlife diversity due to the wealth of biodiversity data collected through the Field Museum’s rapid biological inventories in 2010. Some sampled sites have since received protection status with the establishment of the Yaguas Reserved Zone in 2011 and Yaguas National Park in 2018. The Fellow will work with local community members to resample amphibians and fishes in protected and unprotected sites in 2020. Specimens will be collected for biodiversity and functional morphology analyses, and water samples will be taken for water quality and environmental DNA analyses. It is hypothesized that biodiversity, functional diversity, and water quality will have increased between 2010 and 2020 in the protected site and decreased in the unprotected site. The Fellow will receive training in specimen collection and genetic techniques from the sponsoring scientists and will develop field guides for the Yaguas watershed and educational programs for children at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该行动为使用生物收集的研究基金为2020财年生物学的NSF博士后研究奖学金提供了资金。奖学金支持将以创新的方式利用生物收集的研究员的研究和培训。该项目将评估秘鲁东北部Yaguas流域的保护状况对青蛙和鱼类多样性的影响。亚马逊盆地是世界上淡水鱼的最高生物多样性的所在地。保护这种生物多样性对于维持影响全球气候模式的健康亚马逊生态系统至关重要。这些栖息地通常受到人类活动的影响，导致生物多样性损失。保护主义者的目的是通过建立保护区来防止这些损失。但是，这些保护区的影响仍然很少。全面的生态系统健康监测需要融合存在的物种数量和每个物种执行的生态功能。最脆弱的物种通常会扮演独特的生态角色，其中只有一个人可能会转化为功能多样性的高度丧失，从而使生态系统的损害比仅生物多样性数据仅能预测。该项目将通过将功能多样性纳入生态系统监测实践中来提高我们对当前保护工作的理解。这项研究中开发的方法将适用于各种生态系统，结果将有助于评估与Yaguas国家公园相邻的拟议的Bajo Putumayo保护区的紧迫性。 Yaguas流域提供了一个独特的机会，可以评估保护状况对野生动植物多样性的影响，这是由于通过田野博物馆在2010年通过田野博物馆快速生物学清单收集的丰富生物多样性数据。此后，一些样本的地点自此获得保护状态，并在2011年和Yaguas National Park and Fister and fistem and fistem and fistem and fistem and fistem and fistem and fister and fister and the Fister and fister and fister and the yaguas will。 2020年的地点。将收集标本以进行生物多样性和功能形态分析，并将取水样品进行水质和环境DNA分析。假设生物多样性，功能多样性和水质将在2010年至2020年之间在受保护的部位中有所提高，并在未受保护的地点中得到改善。这位研究员将从赞助科学家那里获得标本收集和遗传技术的培训，并将在芝加哥的自然历史博物馆中为儿童Yaguas流域和教育计划开发现场指南。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识分子优点和宽阔的范围来评估NSF的法定任务，并被认为是宝贵的支持。