International Planning Grant: Pollination in a Biodiversity Hotspot

国际规划赠款将促进匹兹堡大学PI博士Tia-Lynn Ashman与西班牙塞维利亚Estación Biológica de Doñana（CSIC）的Conchita Alonso和卡洛斯Herrera博士之间的合作。最终的研究目标是确定植物繁殖的授粉和花粉限制的反应，以增加在广泛的植物群落多样性的多样性，并确定这种关系是否不同的地方病。 这项工作将利用西班牙南部贝蒂奇山脉的植物多样性热点。规划赠款的目标是联合进行可行性研究，并收集必要的初步数据，为设计和实施有关全球花粉限制生物多样性梯度机制的假设的关键实验测试提供信息。该项目将有助于培养两名学生成为全球科学家社区的成员。这项工作将最终导致更好地了解植物-传粉者相互作用和生物多样性之间的关系，这对于有效保护植物和传粉者非常重要，特别是在面临气候变化、传粉者减少和栖息地丧失等现代威胁的情况下。

The international planning grant will facilitate the development of collaboration between the PI Dr. Tia-Lynn Ashman at the University of Pittsburgh and Drs. Conchita Alonso and Carlos Herrera of Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC) in Seville, Spain. The ultimate research objective is to determine the response of pollination and pollen limitation of plant reproduction to increasing diversity across a wide range of plant community diversities, and determine whether this relationship differs for endemics. The work will take advantage of a hotspot of plant diversity in the Baetic Mountain Ranges of southern Spain. The goal of the planning grant is to jointly conduct feasibility studies and to gather the necessary preliminary data that will inform the design and implementation of the crucial experimental tests of hypotheses concerning the mechanisms that underlie global pollen limitation-biodiversity gradients. The project will contribute to the development of two students as members of a global community of scientists. This work will ultimately result in a better understanding of the relationship between plant-pollinator interactions and biodiversity, which is important for effective conservation of both plants and pollinators, especially in the face of modern threats such as changing climate, pollinator declines and habitat loss.