PACE Workshop: Integrating Paleoecology and Community Ecology; May/June, 2017 - Winter Harbor, ME

PACE研讨会：古生态学与群落生态学的整合；

• 批准号: 1649569
• 负责人: Jacquelyn Gill
• 金额: $ 4.94万
• 依托单位: University of Maine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-10-01 至 2018-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1649569&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PACE; Workshop; Integrating; Paleoecology; Community

This project is a workshop to advance interchange between ecologists working on general problems in modern systems and those focused on environments of the past (using buried pollen, plant and animal remnants, and other fossils). Study of the past is able to provide data on ecological dynamics that take place over long stretches of time, much longer than can be observed in current systems. It can shed light on processes that are important to current ecological change. However, it is often focused on the natural history of specific places and times rather than more general concepts. Meanwhile, ecologists working on general concepts in current systems are often unaware of what study of the past has to offer or are skeptical of whether the fossil data are adequate to answer their questions, given that experimental manipulation is not possible. By bringing both types of ecologists together the field of population and community ecology can be enriched. The outcome will contribute to the ability to respond to global change, and collaborations among scientists will be fostered.Many of the anthropogenic impacts on populations and communities that are of high interest take decades or more to play out; sitting on the boundary between 'paleo' and 'neo' approaches, they require the methods and insights of both. The informatics revolution is also enabling the synthesis of multiple kinds of ecological data across spatial, temporal, and taxonomic scales, including species traits, past and present distributions, ancient and modern genetics, environmental covariates, and phylogenetic history. However, while there are clear opportunities for synergy between paleoecology and PCE, various structural challenges hinder integration between them. A workshop will facilitate capacity-building to address structural problems in the way that science is conducted that hinder the interaction of paleo- and neo- ecologists. Broader impacts will include networking and capacity building to strengthen the disciplinary ties between paleoecology and community ecology, which is critically important during a time of global change. This proposal facilitates critically timed career development and stabilization for diverse early career faculty.

该项目是一个研讨会，旨在提高研究现代系统一般问题的生态学家与关注过去环境（使用埋藏的花粉，动植物，动植物残留物以及其他化石）的生态学家之间的交流。 对过去的研究能够提供有关长时间时间内发生的生态动力学的数据，比当前系统中观察到的时间要长得多。 它可以阐明对当前生态变化很重要的过程。 但是，它通常集中在特定地方和时代的自然历史上，而不是更一般的概念。 同时，在当前系统中致力于一般概念的生态学家通常不知道过去对过去的研究提供了什么，或者对化石数据是否足以回答他们的问题，因为实验性操作是不可能的。 通过将两种类型的生态学家融合在一起，可以丰富种群和社区生态学领域。 结果将有助于响应全球变化的能力，并将培养科学家之间的合作。对人类对候对人口和社区的影响很高，这些人群和社区兴趣很高，需要数十年或更多才能发挥作用。他们坐在“古”和“ Neo”方法之间的边界上，需要两者的方法和见解。信息学革命还可以使跨空间，时间和分类学量表的多种生态数据综合，包括物种特征，过去和现在的分布，古代和现代遗传学，环境协变量以及系统发育史。但是，尽管古生态学和PCE之间有明显的协同作用，但各种结构挑战都阻碍了它们之间的整合。 研讨会将促进能力建设，以解决科学的方式阻碍古学和新生态学家的相互作用的方式。 更广泛的影响将包括网络和能力建设，以加强古生态学与社区生态学之间的学科关系，这在全球变化时期至关重要。该提议促进了各种早期职业教师的关键定时职业发展和稳定。