Response of Individual Mammal Species to Late Quaternary Environmental Fluctuations

哺乳动物个体对晚第四纪环境波动的反应

• 批准号: 9005144
• 负责人: Russell Graham
• 金额: $ 30.6万
• 依托单位: Illinois State Museum Society
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-08-15 至 1994-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9005144&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Response; Individual; Mammal; Species; Late

Drs. Russell Graham (Illinois State Museum) and Ernest Lundelius (Texas Memorial Museum) propose to construct a database of late Ice Age Fossil mammals from the United States. Data on species identities, age, rock types, preservation, and paleonenvironmental data will be compiled from literature sources and museum collections, and will be entered into the Illinois State Museum's Geographic Information System. Ten regional coordinators (plus four Canadians working on a similar project) will review the data quality and will participate in yearly workshops to oversee the project. Once established, the proposed database will have tremendous impact in vertebrate paleontology, paleoecology, and the critical fields relating to the Global Change Initiative, such as climate dynamics, conservation biology, and ecological responses to climatic change. This database will be available to a wide variety of investigators who will come to rely on it as a taxonomic resource, as a test for climate models, and as a growing resource for interdisciplinary research.

Drs。Russell Graham（伊利诺伊州立博物馆）和Ernest Lundelius（德克萨斯州纪念博物馆）提议建立一个美国冰河时代晚期哺乳动物化石的数据库。有关物种身份、年龄、岩石类型、保存和古环境数据的数据将从文献资料和博物馆藏品中汇编，并将进入伊利诺伊州立博物馆的地理信息系统。10名区域协调员（加上4名从事类似项目的加拿大人）将审查数据质量，并将参加监督项目的年度讲习班。一旦建立，该数据库将对脊椎动物古生物学、古生态学以及与全球变化倡议相关的关键领域产生巨大影响，如气候动力学、保护生物学和气候变化的生态响应。该数据库将提供给各种各样的研究人员，他们将依赖它作为分类资源，作为气候模型的测试，以及作为跨学科研究的日益增长的资源。