Grassland Research Facilities at Cedar Point Biological Station

雪松角生物站草原研究设施

• 批准号: 8813175
• 负责人: Anthony Joern
• 金额: $ 2.85万
• 依托单位: University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 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: 1988-08-15 至 1991-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8813175&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Grassland; Research; Facilities; Cedar; Point

Cedar Point Biological Station is a significant protected natural area which supports high quality research on grassland ecosystems. A key resource associated with Cedar Point is Arapaho Prairie, a controlled access, regulated research site in the unique Nebraska Sandhills ecosystem. Arapaho Prairie is owned by the Nature Conservancy and managed through a long-term lease agreement by Cedar Point Biological Station to provide logistical support for manipulative research. Two key facilities will be constructed with funds received from the present project. These will greatly facilitate accurate and effective site management and database development/maintenance as well as support and encourage highly productive research enterprises into the dynamics of grassland processes. Facilities to be constructed include: (1) a small preparatory building to provide protected, on-site workspace to support fieldwork. Sophisticated electronic and physiological equipment required by many studies can be more effectively employed with the availability of such a facility. (2) Arapaho Prairie will be gridded with permanent reference points and key biotic and abiotic features mapped. These features will then be synthesized in a Geographic Information System (GIS) which provides a computerized method for storing and referencing spatial relationships among these key attributes. Future retrieval of known patterns as well as detection of presently unrecognized patterns for a variety of central, biologically relevant features of the site will then be possible. The construction of this GIS will prove immediately valuable for preserving, mananging, providing access to, and fostering research at this nationally important research site.

雪松点生物站是一个重要的自然保护区，支持高质量的草原生态系统研究。与雪松点相关的一个关键资源是阿拉帕霍草原，这是内布拉斯加州独特的沙丘生态系统中一个受控制的、受监管的研究地点。阿拉帕霍草原归大自然保护协会所有，并由杉点生物站通过长期租赁协议进行管理，为操纵性研究提供后勤支持。用本项目的资金将建造两个关键设施。这将大大促进准确和有效的场址管理和数据库的发展/维持，并支持和鼓励对草地过程动态进行高产研究的企业。拟建设的设施包括：(1)一个小型预备建筑，提供受保护的现场工作空间，以支持现场工作。有了这种设施，许多研究所需的精密电子和生理设备就可以得到更有效的利用。(2)绘制阿拉帕霍草原的永久参考点网格，并绘制关键的生物和非生物特征。然后，这些特征将在地理信息系统（GIS）中合成，该系统为存储和引用这些关键属性之间的空间关系提供了一种计算机化的方法。未来检索已知的模式以及检测目前未被识别的模式的各种中心，生物相关的网站特征将是可能的。这个地理信息系统的建设将立即证明对这个国家重要研究地点的保护、管理、提供访问和促进研究具有价值。