Enhancement of Research Facilities at the Kansas Ecological Reserves

加强堪萨斯生态保护区的研究设施

• 批准号: 9512600
• 负责人: Robert Holt
• 金额: $ 8.4万
• 依托单位: University of Kansas Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-03-01 至 1999-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9512600&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancement; Research; Facilities; Kansas; Ecological

The Kansas Ecolgical Reserves (KER) includes a wide variety of managed natural and experimental areas in the tallgrass prairie-eastern deciduous forest ecotone. Recently ecological research at KER has grown to include a diverse assemblage of individual and collaborative research efforts with a trend toward developing long-term projects and experimentally manipulated ecosystems, both terrestrial and aquatic. Development was assisted by funds from institutional, private, and federal sources. This project will enhance research facilities in three ways: (1) to install a surveyed field grid for georeferencing study sites and field research facilities throughout KER, (2) to expand the database management system and GIS by adding key equipment, such as a UNIX workstation, software, etc., and by establishing a set of core map coverages, and (3) construction of a lath house that will be used for plant population and aquatic studies. The enhancement will supportvongoing research programs, make the field station more attractive for outside investigators, and foster research aimed at larger spatial and temporal scales.

堪萨斯生态保护区（KER）包括高草草原-东部落叶林交错带中各种各样的管理自然和实验区。 最近，KER的生态研究已经发展到包括个人和合作研究工作的多样化组合，并倾向于开发长期项目和实验操作的陆地和水生生态系统。 发展得到了机构、私人和联邦来源资金的援助。 该项目将从三个方面加强研究设施：（1）安装一个实地调查网格，为整个研究中心的研究地点和实地研究设施提供地理参考，（2）通过增加关键设备，如UNIX工作站、软件等，扩大数据库管理系统和地理信息系统，以及建立一套核心地图覆盖范围，以及（3）建造一个板条室，用于植物种群和水生研究。 增强将支持正在进行的研究计划，使外地站对外部调查人员更具吸引力，并促进旨在更大的空间和时间尺度的研究。