U.S.-Hungary Project Development Visit: Succession and Restoration Ecology

俄克拉何马大学的苏珊·格伦博士这次美国-匈牙利项目发展访问的主要目的是支持研究演替和恢复生态学的建议。美国研究人员建议访问匈牙利1)审查并确定匈牙利的研究地点；2)更加熟悉匈牙利科学家正在进行的研究；3)合作设计实验；4)让匈牙利科学家更好地了解西式提案；5)参观生态与植物学研究所。研究人员将计划调查小操作对演替途径的影响。研究人员计划在俄克拉何马州、堪萨斯州和匈牙利建立一系列类似的恢复实验，并分析康扎草原的演替和非演替群落动态。这类研究的结果可能有助于设计增加演替速率和指导演替途径的方法。这个生态领域的项目实现了促进科学接触的计划目标，通过使美国和东欧的顶尖专家在共同感兴趣和能力强的领域结合互补的人才，以促进科学知识的发展。

The primary objective of this US-Hungary Project Development Visit by Dr. Susan Glenn of the University of Oklahoma is to support development of a proposal to study succession and restoration ecology. The US researcher proposes to visit Hungary 1) to review and to identify study sites in Hungary; 2) to become more familiar with research being conducted by Hungarian scientists; 3) to collaborate in designing experiments; 4) to better acquaint the Hungarian scientists with western-style proposals; and 5) to visit the Institute of Ecology and Botany. The researchers will plan the investigation of the effects of small manipulations on successional pathways. The researchers plan to set up a series of parallel experiments in restoration in Oklahoma, Kansas and Hungary and to analyze successional and non-successional community dynamics on Konza Prairie. The results of such research may aid in devising methods to increase the rate of succession and to direct the successional pathway. This project in the field of ecology fulfills the program objective of facilitating scientific contact for the purpose of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling leading experts in the United States and Eastern Europe to combine complementary talents in areas of strong mutual interest and competence.