Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY 2005

这一行动为NSF 2005财年少数民族博士后研究奖学金提供了资金。该奖学金的目标是增加少数族裔科学家在博士后水平上的参与，并为他们在美国科学领域担任科学领导职位做好准备。为了实现这一目标，该奖学金为最近的博士后获得者提供了高质量的博士后培训和研究机会。预计通过这些奖学金支持的研究员将在未来的劳动力培训中发挥重要作用。这项研究和培训计划的标题是“野生辣椒及其保育植物：植物物种协会的生态后果和促进它们的机制的研究”。玻利维亚和亚利桑那州沙漠的研究正在研究护理树协会如何协调野生辣椒的种子传播、草食和种子掠夺，其中一些护理树与辣椒共享食果鸟，而另一些不这样做。培训计划是学习和应用分子技术来解决生态问题，并帮助加深对生态相互作用如何塑造植物群落的理解。这位研究员正在与美国和国际科学家合作，并获得更多的研究经验，以加强在科学和学术界的职业生涯。

This action funds an NSF Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY 2005. The goal of the fellowship is to increase the participation of minority scientists at the postdoctoral level and to prepare them for positions of scientific leadership in US science. To attain this goal, the fellowship provides opportunities for postdoctoral training and research of the highest quality to recent doctoral recipients. It is expected that Fellows supported through these fellowships will play important roles in training of the future workforce.The research and training plan is entitled "Wild chilies and their nurse plants: a study of the ecological consequences of plant species associations and the mechanisms that promote them." Research in Bolivian and Arizonan deserts is examining how nurse-tree associations mediate seed-dispersal, herbivory, and seed-predation of wild chilies where some of their nurse-trees share frugivorous birds with chilies and some do not. The training plan is to learn and apply molecular techniques to ecological problems and help advance understanding of how ecological interactions shape plant communities. The Fellow is collaborating with U.S. and international scientists and obtaining additional research experience to strengthen a career in science and academia.