Dimensions US-BIOTA-Sao Paulo: Assembly and evolution of the Amazonian biota and its environment: an integrated approach

维度 美国-生物群-圣保罗：亚马逊生物群及其环境的组装和进化：综合方法

• 批准号: 1241075
• 负责人: John Bates
• 金额: $ 23.52万
• 依托单位: Field Museum of Natural History
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-15 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1241075&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Dimensions; US; BIOTA; Sao; Paulo

Amazonia is Earth's most iconic center of biological diversity and endemism and is among the most important terrestrial biomes due to its contributions to global systems ecology. This project seeks to answer an overarching question in biodiversity science: How was the modern Amazonian biota and its environment assembled across space and time? The research is designed to understand the evolutionary and environmental-ecological history of late Neogene-Recent Amazonia through a comparative approach that integrates across the disciplines of systematics, population biology, ecosystem structure and function, geology, Earth systems modeling and remote sensing, and environmental history. The project also investigates how biotic and environmental change over this time-period influenced Amazonian functional diversity in biogeochemical flows, and how these, in turn, shaped the dimensions of biodiversity seen today as well as the history of global-scale changes in biogeochemical cycling. The project, which is a collaboration with Brazilian scientists and funding agencies, represents the most integrative examination of Amazonian biodiversity and its history to date. The approaches taken describe a methodological template for analyzing information about the history of biotic and environmental change across large, ecologically complex landscapes that can be generalized to other systems. The project creates a large framework for formal and informal education including the training of students, development of a major museum exhibit on Amazonia, workshops for K-12 STEM teachers, publications in professional educational journals, and a web portal, The Evolutionary Encyclopedia of Amazonian Biodiversity, that will make all results available to the public, as well as serve as an informational platform about Amazonian biodiversity and its global importance. This award is being co-funded by NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering.

亚马逊是地球最具标志性的生物学多样性和特有中心，由于其对全球系统生态的贡献，因此是最重要的陆地生物群落之一。该项目旨在回答生物多样性科学中的一个总体问题：现代亚马逊生物群体及其环境如何在时空和时空聚集？ 该研究旨在通过比较方法来了解新近金元素的后期亚马逊的进化和环境生态历史，该方法在系统，种群生物学，生态系统结构和功能，地质，地球系统建模和遥感以及环境历史的学科中整合。该项目还调查了这个时间周期中的生物和环境变化如何影响生物地球化学流动中的亚马逊功能多样性，以及这些如何影响今天看到的生物多样性的维度以及生物地球化学循环的全球规模变化的历史。该项目是与巴西科学家和资助机构合作，是对迄今为止对亚马逊生物多样性及其历史的最综合性研究。 采用的方法描述了一个方法学模板，用于分析有关可以推广到其他系统的大型，生态复杂景观中生物和环境变化历史的信息。 该项目为正规和非正式教育创建了一个庞大的框架，包括对学生的培训，在亚马逊上进行的主要博物馆展览，K-12 STEM教师的研讨会，专业教育期刊的出版物以及网络门户网站，Evolutionary Encyclopedia，Amazonian Biodibiver的进化百科全书，这将使公众提供所有结果，以及全球性的启发性且能够提供Amazon的全球态度。该奖项由NSF国际科学与工程办公室共同资助。