Dissertation Research on Regional Structure of Species Assemblages and Conservation of Small Mammals in South America

南美洲物种组合的区域结构与小型哺乳动物保护的论文研究

• 批准号: 9223313
• 负责人: James Brown
• 金额: $ 1万
• 依托单位: University of New Mexico
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-05-15 至 1995-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9223313&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Research; Regional; Structure; Species

This Americas Program award will fund a dissertation improvement research by Dr. James H. Brown, graduate advisor, and Mr. Pablo A. Marquet, PhD student, of the University of New Mexico. The present award will extend research on patterns of distribution and abundance of small mammal species in the highlands, already in progress in Argentina and Chile, to Bolivia. The investigators will collect and analyze data to test hypotheses regarding regional patterns of assemblage structure. Results of this research will provide new insights and new impetus to conservation efforts in South American countries where human induced landscape changes and overpopulation represent an increasing threat to biodiversity. This research will be among the first studies specifically designed to evaluate patterns in the distribution and abundance of small mammal species at a regional scale in South America. Thus, it will open the way for comparisons with similar studies carried out in North American deserts and will also provide the first assessment of the conservation status of the small mammals species inhabiting the Puna area of Chile, Argentina and Bolivia.

这个美洲计划奖将资助新墨西哥大学的研究生导师James H. Brown博士和博士生Pablo a . Marquet先生的论文改进研究。本奖项将把已经在阿根廷和智利进行的关于高地小型哺乳动物种类分布模式和数量的研究扩大到玻利维亚。研究人员将收集和分析数据，以检验关于区域组合结构模式的假设。该研究结果将为南美洲国家的保护工作提供新的见解和新的动力，在这些国家，人类引起的景观变化和人口过剩对生物多样性构成了日益严重的威胁。​这项研究将是第一批专门用于评估南美洲区域范围内小型哺乳动物物种分布模式和丰度的研究之一。因此，它将为与在北美沙漠进行的类似研究进行比较开辟道路，并将对居住在智利、阿根廷和玻利维亚普纳地区的小型哺乳动物物种的养护状况提供第一次评价。