U.S.-Netherlands Cooperative Research: Size-Specific Growthand Condition in Larval Fish

该奖项支持路易斯安那州立大学的詹姆斯·H·鲍尔教授与荷兰海洋研究所(NIOZ)的亨克·W·范德维尔教授在海洋生物学研究方面进行合作。他们研究的目的是获得一套创新和全面的对个别鱼类幼体的关键测量，以充分描述动物特定大小的生长以及这些测量对不同食物水平的反应。他们将获得这些测量结果在养殖群体中的典型值，并评估观察到的分布、变异性以及它们彼此之间的关系强度。NIOZ的工作人员有经验和特殊设施来培养用于他们自己正在进行的研究的辫子幼虫。鲍尔博士带来了他开发的用于测定幼虫质量、身体体积和形态测量学的特殊仪器和技术。这两个小组都将参与数据分析和解释。这项研究涉及海洋生物研究的一个非常重要的目标：了解各种生物和环境因素如何影响特定海洋种群的丰富度。联合研究将确定基线发展模式，预计这些模式将在人口招募实地研究中发挥重要作用。此外，它还可以为识别特别健康或有压力的个人以及预测持续生存提供指标。

This award supports Professor James H. Power of Louisiana State University to collaborate in marine biology research with Professor Henk W. van der Veer of the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). The objective of their research is to obtain an innovative and comprehensive set of key measurements on individual fish larvae that will fully characterize the animal's size-specific growth as well as the response of these measures to different food levels. They will obtain the typical values of these measurements in cultured populations of plaice larvae, and evaluate their observed distributions, variability and the strengths of their relationships to one another. NIOZ staff has experience and special facilities for culturing plaice larvae for use in their own ongoing research. Dr. Power brings special apparatus and techniques that he has developed for determining larval mass, body volume, and morphometrics. Both groups will be involved in the data analysis and interpretation. This research addresses one of the very important objectives of marine biological research: understanding how various biological and environmental factors affect the abundance of a given marine population. The joint research will identify baseline development patterns that are expected to be significant in field studies of population recruitment. In addition, it may provide indicators for identifying especially healthy or stressed individuals and for predicting continued survival.