Infrastructure Improvements to Enhance Research at the La Selva Biological Station

改善基础设施以加强拉塞尔瓦生物站的研究

• 批准号: 0084492
• 负责人: Gary Hartshorn
• 金额: $ 18.43万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-08-15 至 2003-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0084492&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Infrastructure; Improvements; Enhance; Research; La

This award provides support for improvement of the physical infrastructure of the La Selva station of the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS), a nonprofit consortium of 56 universities and research institutions from the United States, Costa Rica and Australia. La Selva encompasses 1,536 hectares of classic lowland tropical rain forest in northeastern Costa Rica, a country renowned for its outstanding national system of conservation areas. The station is the largest of three biological field stations operated by OTS in Costa Rica, the others being Las Cruces (mid-elevation cloud forest near Panama) and Palo Verde (lowland monsoonally-dry forest in Guanacaste Province). At these sites OTS works in cooperation with governmental and partner-organizations on scientific issues of training, conservation, environmental education, and natural resource management.Over its 46-year history, La Selva has hosted 3,000 research projects, resulting in over 2,000 scientific publications and 160 theses and dissertations. Visitation has reached 25,000 person-days a year, with education use by 3,000 students and faculty in 1999. After a decade of increasing usage, La Selva's housing and trail system are inadequate to meet the physical demands of this level of use. This award will support plans to permanently address the issue of inadequate housing for researchers, degraded trails in the old-growth forest and a deteriorating laboratory at the station. This assistance will enable La Selva to continue to be a center of excellence for research and training in tropical ecology during the decade ahead.

该奖项为热带研究组织（OTS）的拉塞尔瓦站的物质基础设施的改进提供支助，该组织是一个由来自美国、哥斯达黎加和澳大利亚的56所大学和研究机构组成的非营利性联合体。拉塞尔瓦包括1,536公顷的典型低地热带雨林在东北部的哥斯达黎加，一个国家著名的杰出的国家系统的保护区。 该站是OTS在哥斯达黎加运营的三个生物野外站中最大的一个，其他两个是拉斯克鲁塞斯（巴拿马附近的中海拔云雾林）和帕洛韦尔迪（瓜纳卡斯特省的低地季风干燥林）。 在这些地点，OTS与政府和合作伙伴组织就培训、保护、环境教育和自然资源管理等科学问题进行合作。在其46年的历史中，La Selva举办了3，000个研究项目，产生了2，000多份科学出版物和160篇论文。 每年的访问量已达到25 000人/日，1999年有3 000名学生和教职员工利用该网站进行教育。经过十年的不断增加的使用，拉塞尔瓦的住房和步道系统不足以满足这种使用水平的物理需求。 该奖项将支持永久解决研究人员住房不足、古老森林中小径退化和空间站实验室恶化等问题的计划。 这一援助将使拉塞尔瓦在今后十年继续成为热带生态学研究和培训的卓越中心。