Revision of the World Species of Gastrosericus Wasps

世界 Gastrosericus 黄蜂物种修订

• 批准号: 8722030
• 负责人: Wojciech Pulawski
• 金额: $ 4.46万
• 依托单位: California Academy of Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-05-01 至 1993-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8722030&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Revision; World; Species; Gastrosericus; Wasps

Dr. Wojciech Pulawski of the California Academy of Sciences proposes to continue his career-long study of the sphecid wasps. The genus Gastrosericus occurs across tropical Asia and Africa but has never been thoroughly studied using a consistent and modern approach. The habitat occupied by these wasps is continually diminishing, and careful study must be accomplished before they are extinct. Dr. Pulawski proposes to collect new representative samples of the genus in Thailand, Pakistan, and Africa, to describe their morphology, behavior, and ecological habits, and to use these data to reconstruct their evolutionary and biogeographic history. The proposed work has implications beyond the confines of a single genus of wasp. Dr. Pulawski is amassing a unique data resource, from which he will eventually be able to distill the evolutionary pattern of an important and widespread tropical group. This history can then be compared to evolutionary and biogeographic histories of other groups (both wasp and non-wasp), in order to test hypotheses of causal processes.

加州科学院的沃伊切赫·普拉夫斯基博士 打算继续他的球蜂研究生涯。 Gastrosericus属分布于热带亚洲和非洲 但从未被彻底研究过， 现代方法。 这些黄蜂的栖息地是 不断减少，必须完成仔细的研究 在它们灭绝之前。 普拉夫斯基博士建议收集新的 泰国、巴基斯坦和 非洲，描述他们的形态，行为和生态 习惯，并使用这些数据来重建他们的进化 和地理历史。 拟议中的工作所涉及的范围超出了一个 黄蜂的一个属。 普拉夫斯基博士正在收集一个独特的数据 资源，他最终将能够从中提炼出 一个重要而广泛的热带雨林的进化模式 组 这段历史可以与进化论和 其他群体（黄蜂和非黄蜂）的地理历史， 为了检验因果过程的假设。