OPUS: RUI: Long-term Studies of an Island Bird Population: Vertebrate Ecology Across Generations

科学研究的综合对于促进我们对基本生态原则的理解和规划未来的研究方向至关重要。PI将花两年时间综合一个21年的系列调查的进化和行为生态学的一个孤立的人口萨凡纳麻雀繁殖在鲍登科学站肯特岛，新玩法。该项目将有三个主要成果：（1）一本全面的、可广泛查阅的学术专著;（2）关于如何丰富本科科学教育和生态学综合重要性的流行文章;（3）在网上为研究人员、教育工作者和学生提供广泛的长期数据集。主要重点将是探索不同的生物性状是如何在自然种群中遗传的。向研究人员和学生提供这些广泛的数据集将使他们能够探索大量的科学问题。这项工作的一个主要影响将是继续激励、培训和指导学生。到目前为止，33名本科生共同撰写的出版物的基础上的研究，将在这里综合，突出研究与教育相结合的价值。

Synthesis of scientific research is critical for advancing our understanding of fundamental ecological principles and for charting future research directions. The PI will spend two years synthesizing a 21-year series of investigations on the evolutionary and behavioral ecology of an isolated population of Savannah Sparrows breeding at the Bowdoin Scientific Station on Kent Island, New Brunswick. The project will have three main outcomes: (1) a comprehensive, widely accessible scholarly monograph; (2) popular articles on how to enrich undergraduate scientific education and on the importance of synthesis in ecology; and (3) extensive long-term data sets made available on the web for researchers, educators and students. The main focus will be exploring how different biological traits are inherited in natural populations. Making these extensive data sets available to researchers and students will allow them to explore a wealth of scientific questions. A major impact of this work will be the continued inspiration, training and mentoring of students. So far, thirty-three undergraduates have co-authored publications based on the research that will be synthesized here, highlighting the value of integrating research with education.