Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biosciences Related to the Environment for FY 1997

DBI 9750197 Brendan Bohannan这项行动资助了美国国家科学基金会1997年与环境相关的生物科学博士后研究奖学金。这一奖学金为研究员提供了一个在博士学位之外获得额外科学培训的机会，并在任何生物领域的分子、细胞、组织、种群、社区和/或生态系统层面上以创新和富有想象力的方式探索生物体与其环境之间相互作用的基本机制，这一领域得到了国家科学基金会生物科学局的支持。每个研究金资助一项研究和培训计划，该计划将在一个赞助实验室进行。该奖学金的研究和培训计划名为“环境中的细菌多样性和生产力”。众所周知，环境生产力对动植物多样性有很大影响。然而，对细菌多样性的影响却知之甚少。通过估计不同生产力的天然池塘中细菌物种的丰富度，澄清了环境生产力和细菌多样性之间的关系。将对野外中观和实验室微观世界进行数学建模和进一步实验，以评估决定多样性的机制。

Abstract DBI 9750197 Brendan Bohannan This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biosciences Related to the Environment for 1997. This fellowship provides an opportunity for the Fellow to gain additional scientific training beyond the doctoral degree and to pursue innovative and imaginative into the fundamental mechanisms underlying the interactions between organisms and their environment at the molecular, cellular, organismal, population, community and/or ecosystem level in any area of biology supported by the Directorate for Biological Sciences of the National Science Foundation. Each fellowship supports a research and training plan to be carried out in a sponsoring laboratory. The research and training plan for this fellowship is entitled "Bacterial diversity and productivity of the environment." Environmental productivity is known to strongly influence plant and animal diversity. The effect on bacterial diversity, however, is poorly understood. The relationship between environmental productivity and bacterial diversity is being clarified by estimating the richness of bacterial species in natural ponds that vary in productivity. Mathematical modeling of and further experiments in field mesocosms and laboratory microcosms will be conducted to assess the mechanisms determining diversity.