Laboratory Building for Kansas Ecological Reserves

该项目将资助在纳尔逊环境研究区建设一个研究实验室。该设施将包含标准湿实验室；动物行为室，附观察亭；两个通用实验室，用于不需要湿实验室设施的活动；储存野外设备的房间；计算机/气象学室；办公室和会议室。该设施将支持五个主要领域的实验生态学：小型哺乳动物种群生物学、植物种群生物学和生理生态学、次生演替机制、空气-生态系统相互作用和水生生态系统动力学。该建筑将加强当前的研究项目，提高现场/实验室互动测量的效率，使目前由于缺乏研究实验室而被取消的研究领域的发展成为可能，并使KER更容易进入国家科学界。

This project will underwrite the construction of a research laboratory on the Nelson Environmental Study Area. The facility will contain standard wet laboratories; animal behavior room with an adjoining observation booth; two general purpose laboratory rooms for activities not requiring wet laboratory facilities; a room for storage of field equipment; a computer/meteorology room; office and conference room. The facility will support experimental ecology in five major areas: small mammal population biology, plant population biology and physiological ecology, mechanisms of secondary succession, air-ecosystem interactions, and dynamics of aquatic ecosystems. The building will enhance current research programs, increase the efficiency of field/laboratory interactive measurements, make possible the development of now lines of research now foreclosed because of the lack of a research laboratory, and make the KER more accessible to the national scientific community.