U.S.-Philippines Cooperative Research: Investigation into the Populational Structure of the Philippines Seagrasses

该提案要求资金允许罗纳德C。 菲利普斯，生物学教授，西雅图太平洋大学， 继续与主任Hilconida P. Calumpong博士合作， Ms. Janet Estacion，Marine Laboratory，Silliman University， 菲律宾共和国，为期24个月，a 合作研究计划，以评估适应性 耐受性、生长速率、形态学反应，以及 5种菲律宾海草移植成功率 各种近岸海岸环境。 互惠 普通的花园移植海草 水深梯度，盐度，底质 纹理和海草物种组成将是 进行。 监测这些实验以确定 初始种植单元的面积范围， 宽度，平均叶/枝数，叶面积指数， 繁殖物候，叶绿素含量将 每月进行一次，为期两年。 此外，实验室 实验将在所有5种 评估海草的耐热性和耐寒性范围 来自供体部位，以及来自对照、普通和 互惠移植花园 来自这些实验的数据 应该可以让研究人员预测 菲律宾自然现象与人类活动 并启动有效的缓解措施，沿着 受到不利影响的海岸线。 菲律宾的海草群落作为栖息地 以及各种海洋生物的繁殖地， 对当地人来说，经济意义重大。 的60%左右 菲律宾人的蛋白质摄入量包括鱼类， 贝类，其中大部分来自海草草甸。 继续增加活动（疏浚，未经处理的污水， 工业废物处理等）在浅水区 环境已经损害，减少，甚至大量毁灭 部分当地建立的海草种群。 希望，本项目将有助于一个计划， 联合国海洋养护和沿海管理 菲律宾并减少该国对外国的依赖 援助. 合作者受到高度尊重 科学家在这个研究领域。 他们将 由Ernani G博士协助。梅内兹，史密森学会， 他将担任顾问。 本项目将 使这些科学家能够联合收割机结合他们的才能， 利益互惠。 该项目与 发展中国家的科学发展 旨在提高合作水平的计划 美国科学家和工程师之间 发展中国家的对应机构通过交流 科学信息、思想、技能和技术 并通过在互利问题上的合作。

This proposal requests funds to permit Dr. Ronald C. Phillips, Professor of Biology, Seattle Pacific University, to pursue with Dr. Hilconida P. Calumpong, Director, and Ms. Janet Estacion, Marine Laboratory, Silliman University, Republic of the Philippines, for a period of 24 months, a program of cooperative research to assess the adaptive tolerances, growth rates, morphometric responses, and transplant success of 5 species of Philippine seagrasses in a variety of nearshore coastal environments. Reciprocal and common garden transplants of seagrasses across gradients of water depth, water salinity, substrate textures, and seagrass species compositions will be conducted. Monitoring of these experiments to determine areal extent of the initial planting unit, changes in leaf width, mean number of leaves/shoots, leaf area index, reproductive phenology, and chlorophyll content will be conducted monthly for two years. In addition, laboratory experiments will be conducted on all 5 species of seagrasses to assess ranges of heat and cold tolerances from donor sites, as well as from control, common, and reciprocal transplant gardens. Data from these experiments should allow the researchers to predict the effects of human activity and natural phenomena on Philippine seagrasses and to initiate effective mitigation along coastlines that have become adversely impacted. Seagrass communities in the Philippines serve as habitats and breeding grounds for various marine organisms that are economically important to the local people. About 60% of the Filipinos' protein intake consists of fish and shellfish, much of which comes from seagrass meadows. Continuing increased activity (dredging, untreated sewage, industrial waste disposal, etc.) in the shallow coastal environment has impaired, reduced, and even decimated large portions of locally established seagrass stocks. Hopefully, the present project will contribute to a program of marine conservation and coastal management in the Philippines and reduce that country's dependence on foreign assistance. The collaborators are highly respected scientists in the field of this research. They will be assisted by Dr. Ernani G. Menez, Smithsonian Institution, who will serve as consultant. The present project will allow these scientists to combine their talents and interests for mutual benefit. This project is relevant to the objectives of the Science in Developing Countries Program which seeks to increase the level of cooperation between U.S. scientists and engineers and their counterparts in developing countries through the exchange of scientific information, ideas, skills, and techniques and through collaboration on problems of mutual benefit.