US-Brazil: PhD Dissertation- Quantifying fruit yields of a major forest crop in Amazonia's last frontier: do pollinators matter?

美国-巴西：博士论文 - 量化亚马逊最后前沿主要森林作物的果实产量：传粉媒介重要吗？

• 批准号: 0906083
• 负责人: Suzanne Koptur
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: Florida International University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-04-01 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0906083&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; Brazil; PhD; Dissertation; Quantifying

This dissertation research proposal aims to support Ms. Roxaneh S. Khorsand working under PI Dr. Suzanne Koptur to conduct research in Brazil on the reproductive biology of a particular non-timber forest product in Roraima, Brazil, namely the dioecious palm, Mauritia flexuosaa, also known as "buriti". Ms. Rozaneh will collaborate with two mentors in Brazil and share their laboratory facilities. They are: (a) Dr. Reinaldo Barbosa, a primary researcher at the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA); and (b) Dr. Silvana Buzato, an ecology professor and pollination specialist at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Graduate student Khorsand will also compare the palm's pollination and fruit set among undisturbed habitats and habitats fragmented by soy plantations. The ultimate goals of the research are to: 1) elucidate the pollination biology of this species; 2) quantify pollinator diversity in each habitat; and 3) determine if pollinators and fruit set differ across habitats, and if they do, identify the ecological and physiological causes of these differences. Furthermore, the study will examine the consequences of anthropogenic disturbance for the reproductive success of the species, including an anthropological component to gain a better understanding of the cultural and economic importance of the palm.

本论文研究建议旨在支持Roxaneh S.Khors女士和在PI博士Suzanne Kopture的领导下，在巴西罗莱马开展关于巴西罗莱马一种特定非木材森林产品的生殖生物学的研究，即雌雄异株棕榈树，又称“buriti”。Rozaneh将与巴西的两位导师合作，分享他们的实验室设施。他们是：(A)巴西国家亚马逊研究所(INPA)首席研究员雷纳尔多·巴尔博萨博士；(B)巴西圣保罗大学生态学教授兼授粉专家西尔瓦纳·布扎托博士。研究生霍尔桑德还将对棕榈树的授粉和结果与未受干扰的栖息地和被大豆种植园分割的栖息地进行比较。研究的最终目标是：1)阐明该物种的授粉生物学；2)量化每个生境中的传粉者多样性；3)确定不同生境的传粉者和座果率是否不同，如果是，则确定造成这些差异的生态和生理原因。此外，该研究还将研究人为干扰对该物种繁殖成功的后果，包括人类学部分，以更好地了解棕榈树的文化和经济重要性。