U.S.-Germany Research Experience for Graduate Students

该奖项支持六名研究生和两名高级教师与德国Seewiesen和Andechs的马克斯普朗克鸟类学研究中心的团队合作。这项研究包括三个主要项目：对生活在新世界热带地区的几种鸟类的生理特征进行大范围的比较，对从赤道到北极圈占据许多旧大陆栖息地的一种鸟类（Saxicola torquata）进行详细分析，并努力了解鸟类在夏季和冬季栖息地之间的迁徙能量学。国外的站点提供了最先进的风洞，用于测量飞行中的鸟类的能量，来自四个地理位置不同栖息地的实验室习惯鸟类，独特的数据集，杂交物种和生活史数据。

0000582WikelskiThis award supports six graduate students and two senior faculty to collaborate with groups at the Max Planck Research Centers for Ornithology in Seewiesen and Andechs, Germany. The research comprises three main projects: a broad-scale comparison of physiological traits between several bird species that live in the New World tropical zone, a detailed analysis of one species (Saxicola torquata) that occupies many Old World habitats from the equator to the arctic circle, and an effort to understand the energetics of migration of birds between summer and winter habitats. The foreign sites offer a state-of-the-art wind tunnel for energy measurements of birds in flight, laboratory-accustomed birds from four geographically different habitats, unique data sets, hybrid species, and life history data.