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

LTREB：预测燕子及其昆虫猎物对气候变化的反应

• 批准号: 0717021
• 负责人: David Winkler
• 金额: $ 45万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-01 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0717021&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: LTREB; Predicting; Responses; Swallows; Their

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.

该项目将通过对每年300多个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筑巢的树燕及其昆虫猎物。拟议的研究将用温度传感器、运动检测网络摄像机和射频识别阅读器将25个活动鸟巢联网，以提供有关鸟类对环境变化反应的详细信息。拟议的研究调查不同的热环境的影响，不仅直接对鸟类，但间接通过观察和实验的温度对昆虫飞行的影响。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。Ithaca站点将继续作为泛美Golondrinas de la Americas研究网络中其他Tachycineta研究站点的技术和方法的试验台。 该项目的数据将覆盖25年的数据集，在Golondrinas网站的Ithaca页面上向公众提供：http://golondrinas.cornell.edu。这个为期五年的研究计划是对我们这个时代最普遍和最重要的环境问题的集中研究：全球变暖以及鸟类和昆虫将如何应对。