Paleoecology of Angiosperm Climbers: Indicators of Climate, Forest Structural Diversity, and Disturbance

被子植物攀缘植物的古生态学：气候、森林结构多样性和干扰指标

• 批准号: 9316316
• 负责人: Robyn Burnham
• 金额: $ 20.19万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-02-15 至 2000-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9316316&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Paleoecology; Angiosperm; Climbers; Indicators; Climate

9316316 Burnham PI will investigate modern and fossil angiosperm climbers (lianas). Objectives are to determine the diagnostic foliage characteristics of climbing angiosperm families, to correlate basic climatic, habitat, and forest structure characteristics with climber diversity, abundance, and morphology, and to use these features of systematics and ecology to characterize the forested habitats of two distinct sites in the early Tertiary of western North America (Paleocene Raton Formation, NM; Eocene Puget Group, WA). Studies of modern sites include field work in Central and South America. Results will be important to studies of plant community evolution, with implications for the impact of deforestation and global climate change on vegetation.

9316316伯纳姆派将调查现代和化石被子植物攀援植物(藤本植物)。目的是确定攀缘被子植物科的诊断叶特征，将基本的气候、生境和森林结构特征与攀援植物的多样性、丰度和形态联系起来，并利用这些系统学和生态学特征来描述北美西部早第三纪两个不同地点(新墨西哥州古新世Raton组和华盛顿州始新世Puget组)的森林生境。对现代遗址的研究包括对中美洲和南美洲的实地考察。结果将对植物群落进化的研究具有重要意义，并对森林砍伐和全球气候变化对植被的影响产生影响。