Planning Visit for a Faunal Survey of Western Amazonia

0084704阿尔伯特该美洲奖将资助佛罗里达大学詹姆斯·S·阿尔伯特博士与来自几个动物学学科的一名加拿大人和另外两名拉丁美洲研究人员合作组织的秘鲁规划访问的旅费和相关费用。拟议中的访问是为了组织一次对帕卡亚-萨米里亚国家公园浮动草地的动物群调查，帕卡亚-萨米里亚国家公园是秘鲁亚马逊地区一个高度多样化的水生社区。这次计划访问将有助于形成研究方法，并就具体研究地点达成协议。由于拟议的研究将是跨学科的，因此组织者有机会就概念方法和实用的实地研究方法达成一致是至关重要的。记录漂浮草甸的动物群对于规划亚马逊地区的渔业管理和养护至关重要，未来的项目将提供基线生物多样性和遗传数据，用于未来在系统学、生态学和保护生物学方面的研究。

0084704AlbertThis Americas award will support travel and related expenses for a Planning Visit to Peru organized by Dr. James S. Albert, University of Florida, with the collaboration of one Canadian and two other Latin American researchers from several zoological disciplines. The proposed visit is to organize a faunal survey of floating meadows in the Pacaya-Samiria National Park, a highly diverse aquatic community in the Peruvian Amazon. The planning visit will help to forge a research methodology and reach agreement on specific research sites. Since the proposed research will be interdisciplinary, it is essential that the organizers have an opportunity to agree on conceptual approaches and practical field research methods. Documenting the fauna of floating meadows is essential for planning fisheries management and conservation in the Amazon, and the future project will provide baseline biodiversity and genetic data for use in future studies in systematics, ecology, and conservation biology.***