Group Travel Support for the Symposium "Biogeography and Ecology - Two Lenses in One Telescope"; Herakleon, Crete; January 2011

为“生物地理学与生态学——一台望远镜中的两个镜头”研讨会提供团体旅行支持；

• 批准号: 1059521
• 负责人: David Jenkins
• 金额: $ 2.28万
• 依托单位: The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1059521&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Group; Travel; Support; Symposium; Biogeography

Ecology and biogeography are each large disciplines with different approaches: ecology tends to focus on local patterns and processes in nature, while biogeography focuses on large-scale, continental patterns and processes. Yet both disciplines share the overall goal to better understand natural biological systems. This project will support graduate students to attend and participate in a special symposium of the International Biogeography Society, entitled Biogeography and Ecology - Two Lenses in One Telescope. In this symposium, both ecologists and biogeographers will present analyses of four subjects of common interest to the two disciplines: niche, comparative ecology and macroecology, community assembly, and diversity. The symposium will be the first to explicitly bring together ecologists and biogeographers to critically review and discuss the intersection of the two disciplines, and will help steer future research in each of the merging disciplines. The symposium and resulting journal issue are timely and essential because regional and international research programs are increasingly common in response to large-scale problems at the interface between ecology and biogeography.Many of the environmental challenges, such as biodiversity conservation and climate change occur at regional scales, and will require that ecology and biogeography together guide science-based policies and decisions. Like the science of regional and large-scale questions, environmental management and regulatory efforts are also crossing borders and reaching to regional scales. More immediately, graduate students will be funded to attend the symposium and International Biogeography Society conference. Travel support for students will help launch students? careers and will have a strong influence on the future of research in ecological biogeography.

生态学和生物地理学都是具有不同方法的大型学科：生态学倾向于关注自然界的局部模式和过程，而生物地理学则关注大规模的大陆模式和过程。然而，这两个学科都有一个共同的总体目标：更好地了解自然生物系统。该项目将支持研究生参加国际生物地理学学会题为“生物地理学与生态学——一台望远镜中的两个镜头”的特别研讨会。在本次研讨会上，生态学家和生物地理学家将就两个学科共同感兴趣的四个主题进行分析：生态位、比较生态学和宏观生态学、群落组装和多样性。该研讨会将是第一次明确地将生态学家和生物地理学家聚集在一起，批判性地审查和讨论这两个学科的交叉点，并将有助于引导每个合并学科的未来研究。这次研讨会和由此产生的期刊是及时和重要的，因为区域和国际研究项目越来越普遍，以应对生态学和生物地理学之间的大规模问题。许多环境挑战，例如生物多样性保护和气候变化发生在区域性地区规模，并将要求生态学和生物地理学共同指导基于科学的政策和决策。与区域和大范围问题的科学一样，环境管理和监管工作也正在跨越国界并扩展到区域范围。更直接的是，研究生将获得资助参加研讨会和国际生物地理学学会会议。对学生的旅行支持是否有助于启动学生？职业生涯将对生态生物地理学研究的未来产生重大影响。