A promising future for integrative biodiversity research: an increased role of scale-dependency and functional biology
A promising future for integrative biodiversity research: an increased role of scale-dependency and functional biology
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综合生物多样性研究的光明未来：规模依赖性和功能生物学的作用增强
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2016
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Lars Schmitz
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Samantha A Price;Lars Schmitz
对生物体与其生物和非生物环境变化之间复杂相互作用的研究，对于了解是什么调节生物多样性至关重要。这些调查发生在许多系统发育，时间和空间尺度，并在各种生物和地质学科，但往往是相对孤立的。这个问题的重点是什么可以实现时，生态机制集成到分析的深时间生物多样性模式，通过化石和现存的数据和方法的联盟。我们扩大这一观点认为，鉴于其直接相关的当前的生物多样性危机，更大的整合是需要在整个生物多样性研究。我们专注于了解尺度效应的必要性，低水平的生态和进化过程如何扩大规模，反之亦然，以及纳入功能生物学的重要性。将功能置于生物多样性研究的核心至关重要，因为它确定了生物体如何与其非生物和生物环境相互作用，而功能多样性最终决定了重要的生态系统过程。为了实现全面融合，需要持续作出协调一致的努力，建立一个统一和互动的生物多样性研究人员社区，其核心是教育和跨学科培训。
Studies into the complex interaction between an organism and changes to its biotic and abiotic environment are fundamental to understanding what regulates biodiversity. These investigations occur at many phylogenetic, temporal and spatial scales and within a variety of biological and geological disciplines but often in relative isolation. This issue focuses on what can be achieved when ecological mechanisms are integrated into analyses of deep-time biodiversity patterns through the union of fossil and extant data and methods. We expand upon this perspective to argue that, given its direct relevance to the current biodiversity crisis, greater integration is needed across biodiversity research. We focus on the need to understand scaling effects, how lower-level ecological and evolutionary processes scale up and vice versa, and the importance of incorporating functional biology. Placing function at the core of biodiversity research is fundamental, as it establishes how an organism interacts with its abiotic and biotic environment and it is functional diversity that ultimately determines important ecosystem processes. To achieve full integration, concerted and ongoing efforts are needed to build a united and interactive community of biodiversity researchers, with education and interdisciplinary training at its heart.