Ecology, Morphology and Phylogeny of Bird Species in South India, Award in Indian Currency

9320332价格说明：本项目资助加州大学圣地亚哥分校的Trevor Price博士到印度进行研究的差旅费和现场费用。他的印度合作者是本地治里大学的Priya Davidar博士。加州大学圣地亚哥分校的研究生Madhusudan Katti先生将协助现场工作。研究的目的是研究限制候鸟种群规模的因素。繁殖季节和非繁殖季节的情况都有牵连。计划的野外工作是研究印度南部的越冬莺，特别关注一个单一的莺群（Phylloscopus属），它们在冬季数量丰富，易于研究，并且形成了一个紧密结合的生态协会。研究内容将包括鸟类回归的识别，以及它们返回的领地，在不同的心理状态下，包括繁殖季节的影响，两性的喂养策略和领地行为。预计这项工作将有助于更广泛地了解亚洲越冬种群，并与其他大陆的研究进行比较。这项研究将有助于填补在非繁殖季节莺的形态生态学联系方面的空白。范围：该项目为一名美国科学家提供实地研究支持，与一名研究生合作，并与一名印度科学家合作。印度在生物多样性项目领域拥有独特的资源和设施。这个项目非常符合INT的目标。＊＊＊

9320332 Price Description: This project supports travel and field expenses for Dr. Trevor Price of the University of California, San Diego, to conduct research in India. His Indian collaborator is Dr. Priya Davidar of Pondicherry University. A graduate student from U.C.S.D., Mr. Madhusudan Katti, will assist in the field work. The research aim is the study of the factors that limit population sizes of migratory bird species. Conditions during the breeding season and during the non-breeding season have been implicated. The planned field work is to study the wintering warblers in south India, with special focus on a single group of warblers (genus Phylloscopus), which are abundant and easy to study in winter, and which form a single tightly knit ecological guild. The research will include identification of birds returning, and the territories they return to, the strategies of feeding and the territorial behavior of both sexes in different psychological conditions including the effect of the breeding season. It is expected that this work would help develop a broader picture of wintering populations in Asia, and allow comparisons with studies on other continents. The study will help fill a gap in what is known about the morphology-ecology associations in warblers in the non-breeding season. Scope: The project provides support to do field research for a U.S. scientist, working with a graduate student, and in collaboration with an Indian scientist. India has unique resources and facilities in the project area, of biodiversity. The project fits well with INT's objectives. ***