U.S.-German Cooperative Research in Migration from the Past: Fitness Characters of Zooplankton from Long-lived Dormant Stages

该奖项补充了NSF/EPA水奖支持的赠款， 分水岭。 这项研究是与马克斯·普朗克湖沼研究所的温弗里德·兰伯特合作进行的，旨在了解浮游动物个体的反应 在养殖富营养化过程中发生的藻类资源的重大变化。 动物的摄食和适应性反应，从之前和之后的时期， 将研究富营养化问题。 浮游动物的表型和遗传变异 将使用从长寿命滞育卵孵化的动物记录种群 从不同年代的湖泊沉积物中收集的。 这项研究将导致大量的 加强了解淡水中的自然种群和社区 食草动物对人为环境变化的反应。

This award supplements a grant supported by an NSF/EPA Award on Water and Watersheds. The research, performed in collaboration with Winfried Lampert of the Max- Planck-Institut for Limnology, seeks to learn how individual zooplankton species respond to the major changes in their algal resources that occur during cultural eutrophication.. The feeding and fitness responses of animals from before and after periods of eutrophication will be studied. Phenotypic and genetic variation in zooplankton populations will be documented using animals hatched from long-lived diapausing eggs collected from lake sediments of different ages. The research will lead to substantially enhanced understanding of how natural populations and communities of freshwater herbivores respond to anthropogenic environmental change.