Workshop on Neuroendocrine Strategies in a Tropical Environment; San Antonio, Texas, December 1990

该奖项将支持在德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥举行的第101届美国动物学家协会年会期间举办的热带环境神经内分泌策略研讨会。该研讨会由加州大学洛杉矶分校的巴尼·施林格教授和阿瑟·阿诺德教授组织，重点讨论热带生态学及其与动物生理学和行为生态学中的神经内分泌机制的相关性。会议将重点介绍拉丁美洲正在进行的比较神经内分泌学研究以及利用新热带动物进行的研究。新大陆的热带地区被许多人认为是地球上生物多样性最大的地区。该地区目前正经历着来自快速发展的巨大压力，包括大规模砍伐森林和破坏性的土地使用做法，这些行动将对动物种群造成不利影响。这一发展中国家科学奖将有助于促进北美和拉丁美洲比较神经生物学家和内分泌学家在共同感兴趣的话题上的合作和思想交流。

This award will support a workshop on neuroendocrine strategies in a tropical environment in conjunction with the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Zoologists in San Antonio, Texas. The workshop, organized by Professors Barney Schlinger and Arthur Arnold of UCLA, will focus on tropical ecology and its relevance to neuroendocrine mechanisms in animal physiology and behavioral ecology. The meeting will highlight ongoing research in comparative neuroendocrinology within Latin America as well as studies utilizing neotropical animals. The tropical regions of the New World are considered by many to contain the greatest biological diversity of any region on the planet. This region is currently experiencing intense pressure from rapid development, including massive deforesta- tion and destructive land-use practices, actions that will detrimentally affect animal populations. This Science in Developing Countries award will help to promote collaboration and exchange of ideas between North American and Latin American comparative neurobiologists and endocrinologists in a topic of strong mutual interest.