LTREB: Predicting the Responses of Swallows and Their Insect Prey to Climate Change

该项目将通过对每年300多个筑巢尝试的一系列观察和实验，探索气候变化将如何影响在纽约伊萨卡附近筑巢的树燕及其昆虫猎物。拟议中的研究将用温度传感器、运动探测网络摄像头和无线射频识别阅读器将25个活动鸟巢联网，以提供鸟类对环境变化反应的详细信息。本研究通过对温度对昆虫飞行影响的观察和实验，探讨了不同热环境对鸟类的直接影响和间接影响。该项目将直接支持5名研究生和9名本科生，并间接支持至少20多名来自不同种族背景的研究。伊萨卡的站点将继续作为泛美Golondrinas de la Americas研究网络中其他Tachycineta研究站点的技术和方法的试验台。该项目的数据将成为一个25年的数据集的上限，该数据集将在Golondrinas网站http://golondrinas.cornell.edu的伊萨卡页面上向公众开放。这个为期五年的研究项目是针对我们这个时代最普遍和最重要的环境问题：全球变暖以及鸟类和昆虫将如何应对。

This project will explore, through a series of observations and experiments on over 300 nesting attempts per year, how climate change will affect Tree Swallows nesting near Ithaca, New York, and their insect prey. The proposed research will network 25 active nests with temperature sensors, motion-detecting web cameras and Radio Frequency Identification readers to provide details on avian responses to environmental change. The proposed research investigates the effects of different thermal environments, not only on the birds directly, but indirectly through observations and experiments on the effects of temperature on insect flight. The project will directly support five graduate students and nine undergraduates and indirectly support the research of at least 20 more from a diversity of ethnic backgrounds. The Ithaca site will continue to serve as the test-bed for techniques and approaches at other Tachycineta study sites in the pan-American Golondrinas de la Americas research network. Data from this project will cap a 25-year dataset, made available to the public at the Ithaca page of the Golondrinas web-site: http://golondrinas.cornell.edu. This five-year research program is a focused approach to the most pervasive and important environmental concern of our time: global warming and how both birds and insects will respond to it.