Dissertation Enhancement: Impacts of a migratory detritivorous fish on nitrogen cycling in a tropical stream

论文增强：洄游食碎石鱼对热带溪流氮循环的影响

• 批准号: 0211400
• 负责人: Robert Hall
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: University of Wyoming
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-10-01 至 2004-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0211400&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dissertation; Enhancement; Impacts; migratory; detritivorous

This dissertation enhancement grant supports Bradley Taylor under the direction of Robert O. Hall of the University of Wyoming to study the impacts of a migratory detrivorous fish on nitrogen cycling in a tropical stream in Venezuela. This award supports research that is novel in integrating the impacts of a single fish species on multiple components of the nitrogen cycle. Ecologists are fundamentally interested in the degree to which organisms influence ecosystem structure and function. Although much attention has focused on the relationship between species diversity and ecosystem function for plant taxa, our understanding of how animals influence ecosystem function is still in its infancy.This proposal focuses on migratory fish (Prochilodus mariae) that is a potentially strong interactor in tropical Andean streams and builds on previous work to test whether this single species affects the stream nitrogen cycle, a fundamental component of ecosystem function.

这项论文增强补助金在怀俄明大学罗伯特·奥·霍尔（Robert O. Hall）的指导下支持布拉德利·泰勒（Bradley Taylor）研究委内瑞拉热带河流中迁移性贬值鱼对氮循环的影响。该奖项支持在整合单个鱼类物种对氮循环多种组成部分的影响方面的研究。生态学家对生物体影响生态系统结构和功能的程度根本上感兴趣。 Although much attention has focused on the relationship between species diversity and ecosystem function for plant taxa, our understanding of how animals influence ecosystem function is still in its infancy.This proposal focuses on migratory fish (Prochilodus mariae) that is a potentially strong interactor in tropical Andean streams and builds on previous work to test whether this single species affects the stream nitrogen cycle, a fundamental component of ecosystem function.