U.S.-Mexico International Research Experience for Undergraduates: Insect Biodiversity and Anthropogenic Change in the Sonoran Desert

0440648 MarkowThis美国-墨西哥大学生科研体验活动，由Therese A.亚利桑那大学的Markow打算将来自美国和墨西哥的学生聚集在一起，在美国的索诺兰沙漠进行原创研究。墨西哥边境。 资金将有助于支持最初的为期两周的密集研究课程，每年在瓜伊马斯，索诺拉，墨西哥提供六名来自美国的学生和后续活动，将提供学生参加各种相关的研究活动。 这些活动将在美国和墨西哥的研究活动中进行分配。 美国学生将与来自墨西哥和其他来源支持的类似数量的墨西哥学生一起，以促进关于昆虫生物多样性和索诺兰沙漠人为变化主题的真正的两国研究经验。该项目探讨昆虫生物多样性及其与正在经历快速土地转换的生态系统的相互作用。该研究还将研究生物多样性与生态系统健康、气候、经济、疾病和人为变化的关系。此外，该活动将使学生了解该地区的昆虫动物群，并将探讨生境丧失的影响，同时鼓励对生物概念进行研究性学习。

0440648MarkowThis U.S.-Mexico research experiences for undergraduates activity, organized by professor Therese A. Markow of the University of Arizona, intends to bring together students from the United States and Mexico to conduct original research in the Sonoran desert on the U.S.-Mexico border. Funding will help to support an initial intensive two-week research course offered annually in Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico to six students from the U.S. and follow-up activities that will offer the students a variety of related research activities in which to participate. These activities will be divided among research activities in both the U.S. and Mexico. The U.S. students will be joined by a similar number of students from Mexico supported by Mexican and other sources, to promote a truly binational research experience on the topic of insect biodiversity and anthropogenic change in the Sonoran Desert. The project explores insect biodiversity and its interaction with an ecosystem that is experiencing rapid land conversion. The research will also examine the relationship of biodiversity to ecosystem health, climate, economics, disease and anthropogenic change. In addition, the activity will provide students with an understanding of the insect fauna of the region and will explore the effects of habitat loss while encouraging research-based learning of biological concepts.