Including Ants in NSF-IRC Proposal
From: "Mike Kaspari" <mkaspari@ou.edu>
To: "John Pickering" <pick@pick.uga.edu>
Subject: RE: Intent to submit IRC/NSF proposal
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 08:29:09 -0600
John,
Good. I was hoping you would get involved in this.
Any interest in plant-ant interaction aspects? As living
anti-herbivore agents? I have been wanting to do this for a while--look at
Coley et al's ideas of productivity and plant defenses on an NPP gradient.
The Smokies gives a fair chunk, along with abiotic variance. I could see
some nifty comparative work between temperate and tropical that would also
allow me to look at the degree to which plant diversity may drive ant
diversity.
Let me know. Or is RonP going to do this?
Also, Christmas break is coming up. Large chunk of time to work on
projects, like Alates. Keep me aprised.
Cheers,
Mike
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