US-Turkey Cooperative Research: Studies of the Flora of Metalliferous Soils of Turkey

描述：该奖项是为了支持西雅图华盛顿大学的Arthur Kruckeberg博士和三位土耳其科学家的合作项目：Bolu人工智能贝萨尔大学的Adil Guner博士和dr。来自土耳其安卡拉加齐大学的Tuna Ekim和Nezaket Adiguzel。该项目旨在研究富金属土壤的生态因子和化学行为。该项目有几个任务：从土耳其几个地区富含金属的土壤中收集植物标本，作为植物标本馆的参考材料；建立对高浓度重金属土壤具有特殊耐受性的植物种类清单；对采集的植物样品进行多元素化学分析，鉴定金属强富集情况；并对研究区选取的土壤进行了详细的化学分析，确定了土壤中金属含量的异常程度。这一研究领域之所以引起人们的兴趣，有几个原因：需要在世界范围内增加我们对富金属土壤中自然存在的植物群的认识，包括鉴定金属蓄积物；2 .利用耐金属物种恢复和恢复因采矿活动而荒废的地区的可取性；在土壤净化中利用金属积累植物的潜力。范围：本项目将涉及多个具有互补能力的研究小组，在一个重要的生态和生物研究领域进行研究。克鲁克伯格博士和他的土耳其合作者将进行实地工作。新西兰梅西大学（Massey University）的化学教授罗杰·里夫斯（Roger Reeves）博士将作为生物地球化学领域的专家，参与一些土耳其植物物种的镍超积累研究。该提案符合INT在互惠领域支持美国与外国合作的目标。

Description: This award is for support of a cooperative project by Dr. Arthur Kruckeberg of the University of Washington in Seattle, and three Turkish scientists: Dr. Adil Guner of A.I. Baysal University in Bolu, and Drs. Tuna Ekim and Nezaket Adiguzel, of Gazi University in Ankara, Turkey. The project is to examine the ecological factors and chemical behavior of metal-rich soils. The project has several tasks: collection of plant specimens to serve as a Herbarium reference material, from metal-rich soils in several areas in Turkey; establishment of species lists of plants that evidently possess a special tolerance to soils containing high concentration of heavy metals; multielement chemical analysis of samples of the plant species collected, identification of cases of strong accumulation of metals; and detailed chemical analysis of soils from the study area chosen to establish the degree of abnormal metal concentration. The area of research has become of interest for several reasons: 1. the need to increase our knowledge, on a worldwide basis, of the naturally occurring flora of metal-rich soils, including the identification of metal-accumulators, 2. the desirability of rehabilitating and revegetating areas laid waste by mining activities using metal-tolerant species, and 3. the potential for the use of metal-accumulating plants in soil-clean-up. Scope: This project will involve several research teams with complementary capabilities to conduct research in an important ecological and biological research area. Dr. Kruckeberg and his Turkish collaborators will carry out the field work. Dr. Roger Reeves, a professor of chemistry at Massey University in New Zealand, will participate as an expert in biogeochemical field work, and in nickel hyperaccumulation of a number of Turkish plant species. This proposal meets the INT objective of supporting US-foreign collaboration in areas of mutual benefit.