Laboratory Building for Kansas Ecological Reserves

该项目将资助建设一个研究 纳尔逊环境研究区的实验室。 该设施 将包含标准湿实验室;动物行为室， 一个相邻的观察室;两个通用实验室 不需要湿实验室设施的活动室; a 储存野外设备的房间;计算机/气象室; 办公室和会议室。 该设施将支持 五个主要领域的实验生态学：小型哺乳动物种群 生物学、植物种群生物学和生理生态学， 次生演替机制，空气-生态系统相互作用， 和水生生态系统的动态。 该建筑将提高 目前的研究计划，提高效率， 现场/实验室交互式测量， 现在研究的发展由于以下原因而受到限制 缺乏研究实验室，使KER更多 向全国科学界开放。

This project will underwrite the construction of a research laboratory on the Nelson Environmental Study Area. The facility will contain standard wet laboratories; animal behavior room with an adjoining observation booth; two general purpose laboratory rooms for activities not requiring wet laboratory facilities; a room for storage of field equipment; a computer/meteorology room; office and conference room. The facility will support experimental ecology in five major areas: small mammal population biology, plant population biology and physiological ecology, mechanisms of secondary succession, air-ecosystem interactions, and dynamics of aquatic ecosystems. The building will enhance current research programs, increase the efficiency of field/laboratory interactive measurements, make possible the development of now lines of research now foreclosed because of the lack of a research laboratory, and make the KER more accessible to the national scientific community.