Field Vehicle in Support of Research on Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Biology of Fishes

目前赠款建议中所要求的设备将取代以前的一辆现场车辆，该车辆已使用近15年；（ii）不再被认为是运送研究生和学生实地助理的安全工具；（三）研究交通需求不足。该设备将支持对溪鳟、大西洋鲑鱼和大西洋鳕鱼的研究。新斯科舍的鲑鱼研究工作涉及该物种的其他雄性繁殖策略的研究。在纽芬兰东南部的20多个鳟鱼种群中开展的这项工作，涉及对生活史、扩散、表型可塑性和保护生物学的长期（25年）研究的延伸。鳕鱼的工作包括从整个加拿大东部捕捞、运输和饲养鱼类，这些都是行为研究、当地适应的空间尺度和种群结构的研究以及该物种恢复缓慢的原因所必需的。

The equipment requested in the current grant proposal will replace a previous field vehicle that is: (i) almost 15 years old; (ii) no longer considered to provide a safe means of transporting graduate students and student field assistants; and (iii) inadequate for research transportation demands. The equipment will support research on brook trout, Atlantic salmon, and Atlantic cod. The salmon work is in Nova Scotia and involves studies of alternative male reproductive strategies in the species. The trout work, being undertaken on more than 20 populations in southeastern Newfoundland, involves the extension of a long-term (25 years) study on life history, dispersal, phenotypic plasticity, and conservation biology. The cod work involves the catching, transportation, and husbandry of fish from throughout eastern Canada that are required for behavioural work, studies of the spatial scale of local adaptation and stock structure, and work on the causes of slow recovery in this species.