Field Vehicle in Support of Research on Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Biology of Fishes

目前的赠款提案中要求的设备将取代以前的实地车辆，该车辆：（i）近15年的历史;（ii）不再被认为是运输研究生和学生实地助理的安全手段;（iii）不足以满足研究运输需求。该设备将支持对溪鳟鱼、大西洋鲑鱼和大西洋鳕鱼的研究。鲑鱼的工作是在新斯科舍省，并涉及在物种的替代男性生殖策略的研究。鳟鱼的工作，正在进行的20多个人口在纽芬兰东南部，涉及一个长期（25年）的生活史，扩散，表型可塑性和保护生物学研究的延伸。鳕鱼的工作包括从整个加拿大东部捕捞、运输和饲养鱼类，这是行为工作、研究当地适应和种群结构的空间尺度以及研究该物种恢复缓慢的原因所必需的。

The equipment requested in the current grant proposal will replace a previous field vehicle that is: (i) almost 15 years old; (ii) no longer considered to provide a safe means of transporting graduate students and student field assistants; and (iii) inadequate for research transportation demands. The equipment will support research on brook trout, Atlantic salmon, and Atlantic cod. The salmon work is in Nova Scotia and involves studies of alternative male reproductive strategies in the species. The trout work, being undertaken on more than 20 populations in southeastern Newfoundland, involves the extension of a long-term (25 years) study on life history, dispersal, phenotypic plasticity, and conservation biology. The cod work involves the catching, transportation, and husbandry of fish from throughout eastern Canada that are required for behavioural work, studies of the spatial scale of local adaptation and stock structure, and work on the causes of slow recovery in this species.