Development of Research Infrastructure in a Tropical Rainforest Field Station

拉塞尔瓦生物站，一片低地热带雨林 位于哥斯达黎加的一个网站，在联合国发挥着关键作用， 各国为了解和帮助迅速保护 正在消失的热带湿地生态系统。 车站 将先进的分析实验室设施与无与伦比的 栖息地的范围，包括大面积可供 实验研究 过去二十年的研究结果使La 热带雨林是世界上最好的热带地区之一。 作为 空间站为科学家提供了越来越多的支持， 研究得到了极大的加强和多样化， 从系统学和进化生态学的坚实基础， 生态系统研究，生理生态学，土壤科学，分子 生物学和大气化学。 拉塞尔瓦现在准备 支持在全球变化、土地、 在热带地区的使用和生物多样性。 这个项目是为了创造互补的资源， 提高La Selva推进热带科学的能力。 一个 综合数据库管理和地理信息系统 将联合起来，提供过去丰富的信息， 和正在进行的研究。 这将是一个智力研究 最高级别的催化剂。

La Selva Biological Station, a lowland tropical rain forest site in Costa Rica, is playing a pivotal role in the United States` effort to understand and help conserve the rapidly disappearing ecosystems of the world's wet tropics. The station combines advanced analytical lab facilities with an unrivaled spectrum of habitats, including large areas available for experimental studies. Findings from the last two decades make La Selva one of the best understood tropical sites worldwide. As the station has offered increasing support to scientists, research has intensified and diversified dramatically - extending from a strong base of systematics and evolutionary ecology into ecosystem studies, physiological ecology, soil science, molecular biology, and atmospheric chemistry. La Selva is now poised to support key work in important areas such as global change, land use in the tropics, and biodiversity. This project is to create complementary resources to greatly increase La Selva`s ability to advance tropical science. An integrated database management and geographic information system will unite and make available the wealth of information from past and ongoing studies. This will be an intellectual research catalyst of the highest order.