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<br /> <br />Research at RMBL <br /> <br /><' .'111.0';..'.. '<A <br /> <br />f _ . ~ <br />-j<" ~~" ' <br />", ..'...'....' <br />.'- ';F~ ~. <br /> <br />l{csearch at Rocky Mountain Biologic".! Laboratory is <br />l~a r rj("d mU in rll a ny d j ffcrcn t '.....1 y.<;.. Snme seni or i nve.st j ~ <br />g,uors. pllr:5-uing long.tcnn progr.ams of :study. direcl tcams <br />of many coHahof<tIOl".!i and a~~S\anb evoy sunlml'f. In other <br />cascs, Tt"Sc.uchcrs or l"('M'(ll"ch Sowdellls may pursue their <br />pnljCC:ls without ass..ist<to(:c, whethcr for om.' !iumnWl', m"I\Y <br />,<j.ununcrs in succession. or lX"rh31}S. only one cruciaJ, ("({re. <br />fully limed month. Not only is a diwrsJly of Nof!h <br />American schools and colleges repre.sented .-.mong- [{';Search- <br />en hf'rc, but disting:uished foreign visiton arC" fn'<]urnl. <br />The :5(:opc of l"CSC'OI reh at R M n L has slc.ad i Iy hroadened <br />from in i I ial ! a xonom i c and de.5.0i pi ivc- ecolu~i l:a l st udics. <br />WOo..-k nO'rN indutlt'!i, lhcon'lical <.1nt~ c-xpnimental c({)logy. <br />popul<ostion genetir:-s at hcuh formal and hinchcmical I('"~rel:s, <br />field hcha.....ior..l stmlics, phys.tologkO\I stmhe.. nl ao-aplOl\ion, <br />and o!hr-r nt''''' subdisciplinary ~r{'a:<i "':Ii wel! a.~ mo....e dassj("a! <br />a ppfoac hes, As. n-cw f j nd i ng:<i concern i ng l he hi ot ct uf I hc' <br />region emfrge, tht"' work of pr(,~llc aH(1 future investig.aton <br />with otl1f'r jnl("n~!;ts wm he strengdlC"ll{'J, just as sdlOlan. in <br />v.al"tOUS humatliltc,'i aU henefil from the :F;"ell('ral growlh of <br />an inueas.ingly \vdl.:o.;to("k{'(f lil,rary, SOUle:' r<.'prc;s('utarf~(, <br />tlll{'"S of n'5-C'.HTh work done at Rr~'IIH. ill the last few YCOlrs <br />arc listed <II !ht' l'nd of this p.lmphlcl. <br />S('\'clal intC"rdis(lvlin:ilr,' "fod" OflTsl'arch lla\'{' sprung up <br />at (he- I.aborawr, in recent years. One:' is. ! bf' s~udy of plant- <br />insC'(t interactions, Mllny inscTt:s- ('31 pli:lnlS; wlJ-rk al RMHI. <br />has bee n i m pon ant j n d ucidal i ng l hC' def enS{" medl.lIlisms <br />of plants and the correspondlng- {'\'oh'etl "strau"gems" of <br />Jns~t:~.~ .'i.-('"ckjng to oulDank 1~W."'C' dcfrH;s{';s by d('to~ifying <br />poi:<.:onou s. su hst.1 n cc's in 1 ea \'('s f) r br feed f np; S('Ire! j ,"'(' Iy un <br />1{.s'S lOXlC plant pans., Other In:<;cct~ lorm an '('~"$t'ntijll link in <br />Uowerlng pJ.1nlS' repro(hl(:Ii\'t. .~}'st('m:s. by po11inatill,R <br />flowers whkh. lh('y vi.s.il f:Or ncnal" f{10d., Tlw foragl.l1,R sH.... <br />le-gics of poll i na t m:s. a nd I he (' u(.'s l h;l t I hqr u:'ie to l'C'cog Illll' <br />1l0Wt'fS. as w-C"ll as the pl;UHS. adjuslnwnt of t hdr Ilt'ctar <br /> <br />^ 00"('-".;\ 1;1 pr..1 uhm.Ul(kr (A IJII bl~tomll UK dn Fl m) f1IJoAI S ill it~ IlUn!! <br />31 h-h':t:iun- C1.lt, TJlt'Si' .;mtm"Js b-ili'J.'~' ah('") n;lH' str"torgif-s nf {'!1.'\Tlop" <br />fir-Ill ill habi!a!~ of diIT.cl-illg ~'f'rity, Thc-w (tc-~'-('t{tpmc'm"l,l {Mf{'"pl'llu-S <br />h3l\'f' ..utfil'l:t-t'd lllLlC-h IntC"T(,S[ and HlLtly ~t RMlJL <br /> <br />Bdrn",-"Slank-y Uodmn alii! .1;?IITIoNi I\'mlll,mdin tf;'ll~fn :!I ]101l,d ......;1;1....1 <br />sample for labo]....tOl'l.a..<ll}"~i:5-, <br /> <br />