U.S.-Italy Planning Visit: Ecological, Bioenergetic and Life History Consequences of Invasions of Land and Freshwater by Isopod Crustaceans

这项为期六个月的奖励将为朱尼亚塔学院的Douglas Glazier和一名本科生提供支持，以计划与意大利博洛尼亚大学Alberto Basset博士及其学生的合作研究项目。该项目的目的是研究海洋等足类甲壳类动物入侵陆地和淡水的生态、生物能量和生命史后果；意大利的遗址提供了几种常见的海洋、淡水和陆地等足类动物。在计划阶段，dr。Glazier和Basset将为将来的实地和实验室实验和观察做准备，这些实验和观察将检验关于所观察到的生命史差异的潜在生理、生物能量和生态原因及其种群后果的若干假设。合作的长期目标是证明等足类动物是研究主要栖息地转移的“宏观进化生态学”的优秀模型系统，并增加对它们的理解

0070142GlazierThis six-month award will provide support for Douglas Glazier of Juniata College and an undergraduate student to plan a cooperative research project with Dr. Alberto Basset and his students at the University of Bologna, Italy. The objective of the project is to examine the ecological, bioenergetic, and life-history consequences of invasion of land and freshwater by marine isopod crustaceans; the Italian site provides several common species of marine, freshwater and terrestrial isopods. At the planning stage, Drs. Glazier and Basset will prepare for future field and laboratory experiments and observations that will test several hypotheses concerning potential physiological, bioenergetic and ecological causes of the life-history differences observed, and their population consequences. The long-term goal of the collaboration is to demonstrate that isopods are excellent model systems for studying the "macroevolutionary ecology" of major habitat shifts, and to increase understanding