Planning Visit: Collaborative Studies of Tropical Plant Physciology

9625593霍尔布鲁克这一美洲项目奖将支持剑桥大学哈佛学院的诺埃尔·M·霍尔布鲁克博士访问委内瑞拉加拉加斯，与委内瑞拉加拉加斯公民研究所(IVIC)的埃内斯托·麦迪纳博士合作，计划一项研究提案。访问的目的是计划以半附生植物为模式系统开展热带植物生理学和植物环境生物学的合作研究。半生植物是一种植物，它们生命的一部分无法获得土壤中的水和养分，部分生命的根与地面相连。委内瑞拉是一个合适的研究地点，因为那里发现了各种各样的半附生植物物种，以及它们自然出现的广泛栖息地。访问的目的是为拟议的研究选择将提供必要的通道、防止人为干扰和降雨明显季节性的田野区域。***

9625593 Holbrook This Americas Program award will support Dr. Noel M. Holbrook, Harvard College, Cambridge, to visit Caracas, Venezuela to plan a research proposal in collaboration with Dr. Ernesto Medina, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas (IVIC), Caracas, Venezuela. The objective of the visit is to plan the development of a collaborative study of tropical plant physiology and plant environmental biology using hemiepiphytic plants as a model system. Hemiepihytes are plants that spend a portion of their life without access to the water and nutrients held in the soil, and part of their life with root connection to the ground. Venezuela is an appropriate study location because of the diversity of hemiepiphytic species found there and the wide range of habitats in which they naturally occur. The purpose of the visit is to select the field areas that will provide the necessary combination of access , protection from human disturbance, and marked seasonality in rainfall for the proposed study. ***