Multidisciplinary International Seminar on Paleoecology of the Cenozoic of South America; La Paz, Bolivia, May 1999

南美洲新生代古生态学多学科国际研讨会；

• 批准号: 9821046
• 负责人: Bruce MacFadden
• 金额: $ 2.05万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-04-01 至 2001-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9821046&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Multidisciplinary; International; Seminar; Paleoecology; Cenozoic

98121046MacFaddenThis Americas Program award will support travel and related expenses for 8 senior and 4 junior US researchers to participate in an international multidisciplinary seminar on the paleoecology of the Cenozoic of South America, to take place in La Paz, Bolivia, May 19-22, 1999. Organizers are Drs. Bruce J. MacFadden, University of Florida, and Bruce J. Shockey, NSF International Research Fellow and Fulbright Scholar, presently assigned to the National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), La Paz. The foreign organizer is Dr. Federico Anaya Daza, Chief, Department of Paleontology, of the Museum. Participants include paleomammalogists, functional morphologists, paleobotanists and geochemists.. Through most of the Cenozoic (Age of Mammals), South America was an island continent, having an endemic faunal population that evolved in isolation from the rest of the globe. However, the rise of the Andes and the formation of the Panamanian land bridge radically changed the continent, both physically and biotically. This unique biogeographical history offers rare opportunities for evolutionary studies. The strange nature of the original South American fauna and the complex changes that occurred at that time challenge our understanding of the environmental conditions in which Neotropical life evolved. The purpose of this seminar is to summarize and assess the knowledge regarding the paleoecology and paleoclimatology of the Cenozoic; discuss what the major deficits are in our current state of knowledge; and develop new collaborative relationships to focus on areas that are deemed important for the advancement of our understanding of those complex evolutionary changes. Bolivia is the site of several important paleontological localities, and holding the activity there will give more researchers an opportunity to become acquainted with them, as well as with the Museum's important research collections.

这个美洲项目的奖金将支持8名高级和4名初级美国研究人员参加1999年5月19日至22日在玻利维亚拉巴斯举行的关于南美洲新生代古生态学的国际多学科研讨会的旅费和相关费用。组织者是博士。Bruce J. MacFadden，佛罗里达大学，Bruce J. Shockey，美国国家科学基金会国际研究员和富布赖特学者，目前被分配到拉巴斯国家自然历史博物馆。外国组织者是博物馆古生物部主任费德里科·阿纳亚·达扎博士。参加者包括古哺乳动物学家、功能形态学家、古植物学家和地球化学家。在新生代（哺乳动物时代）的大部分时间里，南美洲是一个岛屿大陆，有一种地方性的动物种群，与全球其他地区隔绝开来。然而，安第斯山脉的崛起和巴拿马大陆桥的形成从物理上和生物上彻底改变了这片大陆。这种独特的生物地理历史为进化研究提供了难得的机会。南美洲原始动物群的奇怪性质和当时发生的复杂变化挑战了我们对新热带生物进化的环境条件的理解。本次研讨会的目的是总结和评价有关新生代古生态学和古气候学的知识；讨论我们目前知识状况的主要缺陷是什么；并发展新的合作关系，专注于那些被认为对促进我们对这些复杂进化变化的理解很重要的领域。玻利维亚是几个重要的古生物学地点，在那里举办活动将使更多的研究人员有机会了解它们，以及博物馆的重要研究收藏品。