Workshop: Climate change and species interactions: ways forward

研讨会：气候变化和物种相互作用：前进之路

基本信息

批准号：
1204376
负责人：
Richard Ostfeld
金额：
$ 9.75万
依托单位：
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Inc.
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2012
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2012-01-01 至 2013-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1204376&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Workshop Climate change species interactions

项目摘要

This award will support a two-day conference on climate change and species interactions. Changing climatic conditions threaten some species with declines and extinctions, can induce pests and pathogens to spread, and can disrupt local communities of interacting species. These changes present major challenges for ecologists, including: (1) predicting how individual species will change in their traits, abundance, and distribution; (2) understanding how communities of interacting species will change in their structure and function; and (3) forecasting how the anticipated changes in these species and communities will influence their abilities to provide ecosystem services such as air and water filtration, carbon sequestration, erosion prevention, and protection against disease. Scientists need new models, experimental approaches, and statistical tools to address these challenges, and specifically to project where individual species will move, how species will evolve, how entire ecological communities will change, and how those species and communities will change in their abilities to perform ecosystem services. Conference sessions will include: Beyond traditional models of climate change and species responses; Neglected issues in climate change/species interactions research; Ways forward: Concepts; and Ways forward: Approaches. Presentations and discussions will be summarized in an edited book and white paper.Mitigating the negative effects of climate change on ecological communities and the ecosystem services they provide requires advances in basic science and strategies to guide future efforts. In addition to fostering critical networking of a diverse set of ecologists and evolutionary biologists working on impacts of climate change, the conference and book will provide the materials for both established and student ecologists, policy experts, and natural resource managers to pose creative and effective solutions to the environmental and societal problems caused by climate change.

该奖项将支持为期两天的气候变化和物种互动会议。改变气候条件会威胁到某些物种因衰落和灭绝的威胁，可以诱导害虫和病原体传播，并可能破坏相互作用物种的当地社区。这些变化给生态学家带来了主要挑战，包括：（1）预测各个物种的特征，丰富和分布将如何变化；（2）了解相互作用物种的结构和功能将如何改变；（3）预测这些物种和社区的预期变化将如何影响其提供生态系统服务的能力，例如空气和水过滤，碳固存，预防侵蚀和保护疾病。科学家需要新的模型，实验方法和统计工具来应对这些挑战，特别是要投影单个物种将如何移动，物种将如何发展，整个生态社区的变化如何变化以及这些物种和社区如何改变其生态系统服务的能力。会议将包括：除传统的气候变化和物种反应模型之外；气候变化/物种相互作用研究中被忽视的问题；前进的方式：概念；和前进的路：接近。演讲和讨论将在一本编辑的书和白皮书中进行总结。将气候变化对生态社区的负面影响以及他们提供的生态系统服务的负面影响需要基础科学和指导未来努力的策略的进步。除了建立一系列生态学家和进化生物学家的批判性网络外，会议和书籍还将为既定的和学生生态学家，政策专家以及自然资源经理提供材料，以便为气候变化造成的环境和社会问题构成创造性有效的解决方案。