MAB: Biological Diversity and Ecology in the Evenks of Siberia

该项目是美国、加拿大和苏联科学家之间的一项国际合作，重点研究俄罗斯向西伯利亚针叶林扩张对驯鹿牧民鄂温克人的影响。最近西伯利亚大铁路的扩建对这些人产生了重大的生态影响，包括引入了一些疾病，营养变化和铁路周围地区的经济建设。这项为期两年的研究计划将包括在中西伯利亚高原拜伊基特地区的Surrinda村进行实地考察。将从埃文克人的抽样中评估生存生态学、人口分析、活动模式、遗传学、健康和营养状况。该项目将提供关于西伯利亚土著人口生态和人类遗传学的基线数据，可能有助于我们了解新世界的人口情况，并将使我们更好地了解技术和西化对驯鹿牧民的土著小人口的影响。这些资料将有助于有关经济发展的行政人员作出更明智的决定。

This project is an international collaboration between US, Canadian and USSR scientists focusing on the effects of Russian expansion into the Siberian taiga on a group of reindeer herders, the Evenks. The recent expansion of the trans-Siberian railroad has had major ecological effects on these people, including the introduction of a number of diseases, nutritional changes and the economic buildup of the areas around the tracks. The two-year research program will consist of field work in the Surrinda village of the Baikit region of the Central Siberian Plateau. Subsistence ecology, demographic analysis, activity patterns, genetics, health and nutritional status will be assessed from a sample of the Evenks. The project will provide baseline data on the ecology and human genetics of a Siberian indigenous population, may contribute to our understanding of the peopling of the New World, and will provide a better understanding of the effects of technology and westernization on small, indigenous populations of reindeer herders. Such information will help administrators concerned with economic development to make more enlightened decisions.