NSF Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY 2009

2009 财年 NSF 少数族裔博士后研究奖学金

• 批准号: 0906006
• 负责人: Lisa Nelis
• 金额: $ 18.9万
• 依托单位: Nelis Lisa C
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0906006&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Minority; Postdoctoral; Research; Fellowship

This action funds an NSF Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY 2009 and is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The fellowship supports a research and training plan in a host laboratory for the Fellow who also presents a plan to broaden participation in biology. The title of the research and training plan for this fellowship to Lisa C. Nelis is "Interactions among invasive non-native plants and insects in California grasslands." The host institution for this research is the Stanford University under the sponsorship of Dr. Deborah Gordon.Argentine ant invasions and grassland plant invasions are known individually to impact native species negatively, yet like most other ecological systems, there has been no research on how these spatially overlapping invasions interact. If interactions between these invaders result in facilitation, the negative consequences to the native species may be strong. This project is combining field and laboratory research with modeling to determine what interactions are taking place between Argentine ants and exotic grassland plants in California, determine how those interactions affect the community of plants and insects, and predict the long-term effect of Argentine ant and exotic plant exclusion on plant and insect communities. The invasion dynamics are also being compared between populations of the same plant species in California to those collected in Chile.Training objectives include expanding experimental and modeling experience and new opportunities for collaborations and publications. Additionally, the project is seeking to understand the complex and scientifically interesting interactions among invasive Argentine ants and plants, provide information useful in conservation, and integrate education and outreach for underrepresented groups in research. The results are being provided to managers of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (fieldwork site), and the Fellow is a mentor in the Ecological Society of America SEEDS outreach program and an outreach program to include minority high school students in basic research.

这项行动为2009财年的NSF少数民族博士后研究奖学金提供资金，并根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）提供资金。该研究金支持研究员在东道实验室的研究和培训计划，研究员还提出了扩大生物学参与的计划。本奖学金的研究和培训计划的标题为丽莎C。Nelis是“加州草原上入侵的非本土植物和昆虫之间的相互作用。“这项研究的主办机构是斯坦福大学，由Deborah Gordon博士赞助。阿根廷蚂蚁入侵和草原植物入侵都已知会对本地物种产生负面影响，但像大多数其他生态系统一样，还没有研究这些空间重叠的入侵如何相互作用。如果这些入侵者之间的相互作用导致促进，对本地物种的负面影响可能是强烈的。该项目将实地和实验室研究与建模相结合，以确定阿根廷蚂蚁和加州的外来草原植物之间发生了什么样的相互作用，确定这些相互作用如何影响植物和昆虫群落，并预测阿根廷蚂蚁和外来植物排斥对植物和昆虫群落的长期影响。入侵动力学也正在比较在加州的相同植物物种的种群与在智利收集的种群之间的差异。培训目标包括扩大实验和建模经验以及合作和出版的新机会。 此外，该项目正在寻求了解入侵的阿根廷蚂蚁和植物之间复杂而科学上有趣的相互作用，提供对保护有用的信息，并将教育和宣传结合起来，为研究中代表性不足的群体提供服务。 研究结果提供给中半岛区域开放空间区（实地考察地点）的管理人员，研究员是美国生态学会种子外展计划和外展计划的导师，包括少数民族高中生的基础研究。