U.S.-Netherlands Cooperative Research: Size-Specific Growthand Condition in Larval Fish

该奖项支持詹姆斯·H教授。路易斯安那州行政区划 大学与教授合作进行海洋生物学研究 亨克·W荷兰海洋研究所的货车德尔·韦尔说， （NIOZ）。 他们研究的目的是获得一种创新的 及一套全面的主要量度方法， 这将充分描述动物的特定大小的增长， 以及这些措施对不同食物水平的反应。 他们将获得这些测量的典型值， 培养群体，并评估其观察 分布、变异性及其相互关系的强度 彼此之间。 NIOZ的工作人员有经验和特殊的设施 培养比目鱼幼虫用于他们自己正在进行的研究。 鲍尔博士带来了他所拥有的特殊仪器和技术 开发用于确定幼虫质量，身体体积， 形态计量学 两组都将参与数据分析 和解释。 这项研究解决了一个非常重要的目标， 海洋生物研究：了解各种生物 环境因素影响着海洋生物的数量 人口联合研究将确定基线发展 预计在实地研究中具有重要意义的模式， 人口招募。 此外，它还可以提供指标， 识别特别健康或有压力的个体， 预测继续生存。

This award supports Professor James H. Power of Louisiana State University to collaborate in marine biology research with Professor Henk W. van der Veer of the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). The objective of their research is to obtain an innovative and comprehensive set of key measurements on individual fish larvae that will fully characterize the animal's size-specific growth as well as the response of these measures to different food levels. They will obtain the typical values of these measurements in cultured populations of plaice larvae, and evaluate their observed distributions, variability and the strengths of their relationships to one another. NIOZ staff has experience and special facilities for culturing plaice larvae for use in their own ongoing research. Dr. Power brings special apparatus and techniques that he has developed for determining larval mass, body volume, and morphometrics. Both groups will be involved in the data analysis and interpretation. This research addresses one of the very important objectives of marine biological research: understanding how various biological and environmental factors affect the abundance of a given marine population. The joint research will identify baseline development patterns that are expected to be significant in field studies of population recruitment. In addition, it may provide indicators for identifying especially healthy or stressed individuals and for predicting continued survival.