Global limnology: up-scaling aquatic services and processes to planet Earth
Global limnology: up-scaling aquatic services and processes to planet Earth
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全球湖泊学：将水生服务和流程扩大到地球
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2009
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J. Downing
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J. Downing
试图界定全球湖沼学领域并鼓励世界上的水生科学家更多地参与他们已经熟知的领域是繁重的。几十年来，我一直在寻找水生生态系统中速率和过程的规律性模式，但直到最近才被鼓励将这些过程扩大到全球水平。我们湖沼学家倾向于把我们的每一个生态系统看作一个独特的实体，这是我们作为自然主义者的背景所支撑的传统。因此，我们已经收集了环境科学中最大的预测理论之一，这是对湖沼学家科学客观性的特别赞扬（Peters 1986，Pace 2001）。正是这种寻求模式和进行多生态系统比较分析的基础，将使湖沼学家在我们的全球理解方面取得快速进展。本文的目的是定义全球湖沼学领域，说服湖沼学家，这是很重要的追求，提供了一个简短的描述如何实现这一点，给出了一些全球湖沼学分析的例子，并建议在全球湖沼学家需要作出快速和协调一致的进展。
It is onerous to try to define the field of global limnology and encourage the world’s aquatic scientists to become more engaged in a field that they already know well. I have been searching for regular patterns in rates and processes in aquatic ecosystems for some decades but was only recently encouraged to up-scale these processes to a global level. We limnologists tend to look at each of our ecosystems as a unique entity, a tradition underlain by our backgrounds as naturalists. It is therefore a special tribute to limnologists’ scientific objectivity that we have already assembled one of the largest bodies of predictive theories in the environmental sciences (Peters 1986, Pace 2001). It is this foundation of seeking patterns and performing multi-ecosystem comparative analyses that will allow limnologists to make rapid progress in our global understanding. The purposes of this paper are to define the field of global limnology, convince limnologists that it is important to pursue, provide a brief description of how to accomplish this, give some examples of global limnological analyses, and suggest areas in which global limnologists need to make rapid and concerted progress.