Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY 2005

这项行动为2005财政年度的NSF少数民族博士后研究奖学金提供资金。该奖学金的目标是增加少数民族科学家在博士后水平的参与，并为他们在美国科学的科学领导地位做好准备。为了实现这一目标，该奖学金为最近的博士获得者提供最高质量的博士后培训和研究机会。 预计通过这些研究金资助的研究员将在培训未来的劳动力方面发挥重要作用，研究和培训计划的标题是“野生辣椒及其保育植物：植物物种联合的生态后果及其促进机制研究。“在玻利维亚和亚利桑那州的沙漠中进行的研究正在研究苗圃协会如何调解野生辣椒的种子传播、食草和种子捕食，其中一些苗圃与辣椒共享食果鸟类，而另一些则没有。 培训计划是学习和应用分子技术的生态问题，并帮助推进生态相互作用如何塑造植物群落的理解。该研究员正在与美国和国际科学家合作，并获得额外的研究经验，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.