Administration, Maintenance and Development of the La Selva Biological Station, Puerto Viejo de Sarapiqui, Costa Rica.

该合同为运营和维护提供部分支持 世界上最大的热带雨林研究站 位于北方，占地125，000英亩的国家公园， 哥斯达黎加。 拉塞尔瓦生物站占地4,000英亩， 保护区和实验林，由 热带研究组织，一个由41名美国人组成的联盟。 大学和研究机构，波多黎各大学 Rico和四所哥斯达黎加高等教育机构。 的 空间站配备了科学仪器， 计算机等，以促进全方位的生态研究 从全球变暖的土壤气体通量到 森林组成的生态和进化动态。 房间 可供72人住宿。 La Selva 吸引了国际科学家客户，他们使用 实验室、森林保护区和实验用地， 分享他们在基础研究方面的专业知识--其中一些已经 与遏制热带森林砍伐浪潮的相关性及其 全球影响。

This award provides partial support for operation and maintenance of the world's premier tropical moist-forest research station, located on the northern tip of a 125,000 acre national park in Costa Rica. The La Selva Biological Station is a 4,000 acre reserve and experimental forest that is owned and operated by the Organization for Tropical Studies, a consortium of 41 U.S. universities and research institutions, the University of Puerto Rico and four Costa Rican institutions on higher learning. The station is fully equipped with scientific instrumentation, computers, etc. to facilitate a full range of ecological research from soil gaseous fluxes involved in global warming to the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of forest composition. Room and board accommodations are available for 72 persons. La Selva attracts an international clientele of scientists who use the laboratories, forest reserve and experimental lands, and who share their expertise in basic research--some of which has relevance to stemming the tide of tropical deforestation and its global repercussions.