Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics for FY2000

这一行动为NSF 2000财年生物信息学博士后研究奖学金提供了资金。该研究和培训计划是在生态学领域，名为“基于网络的组合方法，研究生物多样性丧失对复杂生态网络的影响”。对生物多样性丧失的生态研究受到实际可进行的实验和复杂的基本理论的限制，因此很难分离许多相互作用的过程。该项目将全球优化技术和网络分析应用于高质量的食物网数据，以模拟生物多样性从小到大的损失对复杂社区的影响。系统地删除经验和模型食物网中的物种组合正被用来产生理论，以区分减少物种丰富度的影响和消除特定物种对生态系统的功能的影响。

This action funds an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biological Informatics for fiscal year 2000.The research and training plan is in the area of ecology and is entitled, " A Web-Based Combinatorial Approach to the Effects of Biodiversity Loss on Complex Ecological Networks." Ecological research into biodiversity loss is limited by what experiments can actually be conducted and by the underlying theory which is complex, making it difficult to separate the many interacting processes. This project applies global optimization techniques and network analyses to high quality food-web data to simulate effects of small to large biodiversity losses on complex communities. Systematic deletion of combinations of species in empirical and model food-webs are being used to generate theory that distinguishes effects of reducing species richness from effects of eliminating particular species' functions on ecosystems.