LTREB: Predicting the Responses of Swallows and Their Insect Prey to Climate Change

该项目将通过每年300多次筑巢尝试的一系列观察和实验，探索气候变化将如何影响纽约伊萨卡附近的树燕筑巢和它们的昆虫猎物。这项拟议的研究将用温度传感器、运动探测网络摄像头和射频识别器将25个活跃的鸟巢联网，以提供鸟类对环境变化的反应的细节。这项拟议的研究不仅直接调查了不同的热环境对鸟类的影响，还通过观察和实验温度对昆虫飞行的影响来间接地调查不同的热环境的影响。该项目将直接支持5名研究生和9名本科生，并间接支持至少20名来自不同种族背景的研究。伊萨卡站点将继续作为泛美Golondras de la America研究网络中其他Tachycineta研究站点的技术和方法的试验台。来自该项目的数据将覆盖25年的数据集，该数据集将在Golondrinas网站的伊萨卡页面上向公众提供：http://golondrinas.cornell.edu.这项为期五年的研究计划集中解决了我们这个时代最普遍、最重要的环境问题：全球变暖以及鸟类和昆虫将如何应对。

This project will explore, through a series of observations and experiments on over 300 nesting attempts per year, how climate change will affect Tree Swallows nesting near Ithaca, New York, and their insect prey. The proposed research will network 25 active nests with temperature sensors, motion-detecting web cameras and Radio Frequency Identification readers to provide details on avian responses to environmental change. The proposed research investigates the effects of different thermal environments, not only on the birds directly, but indirectly through observations and experiments on the effects of temperature on insect flight. The project will directly support five graduate students and nine undergraduates and indirectly support the research of at least 20 more from a diversity of ethnic backgrounds. The Ithaca site will continue to serve as the test-bed for techniques and approaches at other Tachycineta study sites in the pan-American Golondrinas de la Americas research network. Data from this project will cap a 25-year dataset, made available to the public at the Ithaca page of the Golondrinas web-site: http://golondrinas.cornell.edu. This five-year research program is a focused approach to the most pervasive and important environmental concern of our time: global warming and how both birds and insects will respond to it.