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

国际研究员奖励计划：马达加斯加蚂蚁的分支生物地理学

• 批准号: 9600364
• 负责人: Brian Fisher
• 金额: $ 9.29万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-09-01 至 2000-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9600364&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Research; Fellow; Awards; Program

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. ***

小行星9600364 国际研究员奖励计划使美国科学家和工程师能够在国外进行三到二十四个月的研究。该计划的奖项提供了联合研究的机会，以及使用独特或互补的设施，专业知识和实验条件。 该奖项将支持博士21个月的博士后研究访问。费舍尔与哈米什G博士合作。罗伯逊在南非开普敦的南非博物馆。 该项目的资金由美国提供-南非方案。 费舍尔博士将对马达加斯加的三组地方性蚂蚁进行系统评价。 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是有限的，它们是确定特有和隔离模式的理想选择。 这项研究将提供有关该物种和该地区历史地理学的重要数据。 ***