Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY 2004

本行动为2004年度美国国家科学基金会少数民族博士后研究奖学金提供资金。该奖学金的目标是增加博士后水平的少数民族科学家的参与，并为他们在学术界和工业界担任科学领导职位做好准备。为了实现这一目标，该奖学金为最近的博士获得者提供了最高质量的博士后培训和研究机会。预计通过这些研究金支持的研究员将在培训未来劳动力方面发挥重要作用。这项研究和培训计划的题目是“将空间明确模型应用于热带森林生态系统的可持续采伐和恢复”。热带森林生态系统的生物财富受到木材和非木材产品（如水果和树叶）的选择性采伐的威胁。采伐物种的可持续管理需要平衡采伐和热带森林的生态，同时了解人口的空间安排和景观特征与人力资源利用模式的关系。研究目标是通过建立热带森林产品采伐模型，为热带森林的可持续管理提供信息，这些模型考虑了采伐制度的空间安排与热带森林资源的干扰介导的空间分布有关，使用红树林作为木材模型，使用下层棕榈树作为墨西哥NTFP采伐模型。

This action funds an NSF Minority Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for FY 2004. The goal of the fellowship is to increase the participation of minority scientists at the postdoctoral level and to prepare them for positions of scientific leadership in academia and industry. To attain this goal, the fellowship provides opportunities for postdoctoral training and research of the highest quality to recent doctoral recipients. It is expected that Fellows supported through these fellowships will play important roles in training of the future workforce.The research and training plan is entitled "Applications of spatially explicit models to the sustainable harvesting and restoration of tropical forest ecosystems." The biological wealth of tropical forest ecosystems is threatened by the selective harvesting of timber and non-timber products (NTFPs) such as fruits and leaves. Sustainable management of harvested species requires balancing harvesting and the ecology of tropical forests, in concert with knowledge about spatial arrangement of populations and landscape features with respect to patterns of human resource use. The research objective is to inform the sustainable management of tropical forests by creating models of the harvesting of tropical forest products that consider the spatial arrangement of harvesting regimes in relation to the disturbance-mediated spatial distribution of the tropical forest resource using mangroves as models for timber and under-story palms as models for NTFP harvesting in Mexico.