Short-Term Visit to Finalize a Cooperative Research Proposalon Vegetation and Climatic History of the Philippines

9413146沃德本奖项提供资金，允许德克萨斯州植物研究所（BRIT）的Jerome V. Ward博士对菲律宾进行短期访问，与马尼拉国家博物馆植物学部的Lolita J. Bulalacao博士敲定合作研究菲律宾植被和气候历史的计划。在为期三周的访问期间，合作者希望(1)为未来的合作和实验设计建立个人联系，(2)收集和分析现场样本，以证明该项目具有足够的科学价值，以证明支持未来的合作研究提案。合作者希望解决古生态学研究中的几个悬而未决的问题。这项初步研究和后续更大的热带孢粉学项目将为研究晚第四纪环境变化和植被不稳定性、全新世植物物种迁移和种群扩张以及史前人类对热带森林的影响提供新的见解。本项目是菲律宾植物区系项目的附属项目(部分由美国国家科学基金会资助号：INT- 9320518和INT-9442970)正在调查剩余的原生森林，对所有维管植物物种进行编目，并记录菲律宾的植物多样性。PI和他的菲律宾合作者在这一研究领域训练有素。该项目与东亚和太平洋项目的目标相关，该项目旨在通过交流科学信息、思想、技能和技术以及在共同感兴趣和利益的问题上进行合作，提高美国和东亚科学家和工程师之间的合作水平。＊＊＊

9413146 Ward This award provides funds to permit Dr. Jerome V. Ward, Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), to make a short-term visit to the Philippines to finalize plans with Dr. Lolita J. Bulalacao, Botany Division, National Museum, Manila, for cooperative research on vegetation and climatic history of the Philippines. During the three-week visit, the collaborators expect to (1) establish personal links for future collaboration and experimental design and (2) collect and analyze field samples in order to demonstrate that the project has sufficient scientific merit to justify support of a future cooperative research proposal. The collaborators expect to address several open questions for a paleoecology study. This preliminary research and the larger project on tropical palynology, to follow, will provide new insights into Late Quaternary environmental change and vegetation instability, Holocene plant species migrations and population expansions, and prehistoric human impacts on the tropical forests. The present project is ancillary to the Flora of the Philippines Project (supported in part by NSF Grants No. INT- 9320518 and INT-9442970) which is surveying the remaining native forests, cataloging all vascular plant species, and documenting the plant diversity in the Philippines. The PI and his Filipino collaborator are well trained in this field of research. This project is relevant to the objectives of the East Asia and Pacific Program which seeks to increase the level of cooperation between U.S. and East Asian scientists and engineers through the exchange of scientific information, ideas, skills, and techniques and through collaboration on problems of mutual interest and benefit. ***