International Research Fellow Awards Program: Cladistic Biogeography of Ants in Madagascar

9600364费舍尔国际研究员奖计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行3至24个月的研究。该计划的奖项提供了联合研究的机会，并利用独特或互补的设施、专业知识和实验条件。这一奖项将支持布莱恩·L·费舍尔博士在南非开普敦的南非博物馆与哈米什·G·罗伯逊博士合作进行为期21个月的博士后研究访问。该项目的资金由美国-南非项目提供。费希尔博士将对马达加斯加的三组地方性蚂蚁进行系统评估。蚂蚁非常适合分析历史模式。由于许多蚂蚁物种的海拔和区域分布受到限制，它们是确定特有和替代模式的理想工具。这项研究将提供有关该区域主题物种和历史生物地理学的重要数据。***

9600364 Fisher The International Research Fellow Awards Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twenty- four months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions. This award will support a twenty-one month postdoctoral research visit by Dr. Brian L. Fisher to work with Dr. Hamish G. Robertson at the South African Museum in Cape Town, South Africa. Funding for this project is being provided by the U.S.-South Africa Program. Dr. Fisher will perform a systematic review of three groups of endemic ants on Madagascar. Ants are well suited for analyzing historical patterns. Because the elevational and regional distributions of many ant species are restricted, they are ideal for determining patterns of endemism and vicariance. This study will provide important data on the subject species and on the historical biogeography of the region. ***