Completion of GIS Analyses to Assess Biotic Effects of Environmental Perturbations on Neogene Mammals

完成地理信息系统分析以评估环境扰动对新近纪哺乳动物的生物影响(EAR-0310221)加州大学伯克利分校Anthony Barnosky于2000年开始实施中新世哺乳动物图谱项目，目标是：(A)建立中新世和晚渐新世哺乳动物发生事件和相关信息的关系数据库；(B)利用这些数据测试关于环境变化和动物群反应之间关系的问题；(C)通过网络界面分发数据；以及(D)教育学生。该项目正在继续进行，以完成数据库的建立和服务，测试关于环境变化如何影响哺乳动物进化和地理分布的想法，并继续培训博士后、研究生和本科生。这些研究问题与预测当前人类活动对生态系统的影响以及澄清环境变化对进化和灭绝模式的重要性有关。新的科学基础设施是以可上网的数据库的形式提供的。

Completion of GIS Analyses to Assess Biotic Effects of Environmental Perturbations on Neogene Mammals (EAR-0310221)Anthony BarnoskyUniversity of California, BerkeleyABSTRACTThe Miocene Mammal Mapping Project (Miomap) began in 2000 with the goals of (a) constructing a relational database of Miocene and late Oligocene mammal occurrences and associated relevant information; (b) using the data to test questions about the relationship between environmental change and faunal response; (c) distributing the data through web interfaces; and (d) educating students. The project is being continued in order to finish building and serving the database, test ideas about how environmental change affects evolution and geographic distribution of mammals, and continue training postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate students. The research questions are relevant to forecasting the effects of current human activities on ecological systems and clarifying the scales at which environmental changes become important to evolutionary and extinction patterns. New scientific infrastructure is provided in the form of a web-accessible database.