Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biosciences Related to the Environment for FY 1997

DBI 9750250珍妮特·M·费舍尔这一行动资助了美国国家科学基金会1997年与环境相关的生物科学博士后研究奖学金。这一奖学金为研究员提供了一个在博士学位之外获得额外科学培训的机会，并在任何生物领域的分子、细胞、组织、种群、社区和/或生态系统层面上以创新和富有想象力的方式探索生物体与其环境之间相互作用的基本机制，这一领域得到了国家科学基金会生物科学局的支持。每个研究金资助一项研究和培训计划，该计划将在一个赞助实验室进行。该奖学金的研究和培训计划名为“生态历史对浮游动物群落对鱼类捕食反应的影响”。历史遗产对群落动态的影响还知之甚少。生态史可能在淡水浮游动物群落的动态中发挥关键作用，因为过去群落的活样本作为滞育卵储存在湖泊沉积物中，这些卵仍可存活数十年。在历史上有鱼或没有鱼的实验池塘中，浮游动物群落对鱼类捕食的反应正在形成对比。

Abstract DBI 9750250 Janet M. Fischer This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biosciences Related to the Environment for 1997. This fellowship provides an opportunity for the Fellow to gain additional scientific training beyond the doctoral degree and to pursue innovative and imaginative into the fundamental mechanisms underlying the interactions between organisms and their environment at the molecular, cellular, organismal, population, community and/or ecosystem level in any area of biology supported by the Directorate for Biological Sciences of the National Science Foundation. Each fellowship supports a research and training plan to be carried out in a sponsoring laboratory. The research and training plan for this fellowship is entitled "Effects of ecological history on zooplankton community responses to fish predation." The effect of historical legacies on community dynamics are poorly-understood. Ecological history may play a critical role in the dynamics of freshwater zooplankton communities because a live sample of past communities is stored in lake sediments as diapausing eggs which remain viable for decades. Zooplankton community responses to fish predation is being contrasted in experimental ponds which have historically contained or lacked fish.