U.S.-Australia Joint Workshop: Recruitment and Population Dynamics of Coral Reef Fishes/Townsville, Australia/July 1995

该奖项将支持10名美国海洋生态学家参加于1995年7月10日至14日在澳大利亚昆士兰州汤斯维尔附近举行的题为“珊瑚礁鱼类的繁殖和种群动态”的讲习班。美国组织者是来自俄勒冈州立大学动物学系的马克·a·希克森博士。澳大利亚的主要组织者是北昆士兰詹姆斯库克大学海洋生物系的杰弗里·p·琼斯博士。美国和澳大利亚都越来越关注其珊瑚礁资源的健康状况。珊瑚礁鱼类已被认为是进一步深入了解海洋鱼类种群动态的理想模型系统。珊瑚礁鱼类的数量受到幼虫供应的限制，这一观点既受欢迎，也越来越有争议。两国的研究人员在对招募限制的思考上出现了两极分化，导致了概念上的僵局，似乎阻碍了科学进步。研讨会将汇集两国的顶尖研究人员，包括来自加拿大、日本、法国和英国的少数人，寻求开始解决这一争议。其中要考虑的主题是适当的空间尺度的珊瑚鱼研究，竞争对生存的影响，捕食和密度依赖，招聘限制，以及珊瑚礁渔业的管理和保护。澳大利亚对该讲习班的支持由澳大利亚工业、科学和技术部提供。

9418018 Hixon This award will support the participation of ten American marine ecologists at a workshop entitled "The Recruitment and Population Dynamics of Coral Reef Fishes" to be held near Townsville, Queensland, Australia, July 10 through 14, 1995. The American organizer is Dr. Mark A. Hixon from the Department of Zoology at Oregon State University. The Australian principal organizer is Dr. Geoffrey P. Jones from the Department of Marine Biology at the James Cook University of North Queensland. Both the United States and Australia have become increasingly concerned about the health of their coral-reef resources. Coral-reef fishes have become recognized as ideal model systems for furthering insight into the dynamics of marine fish populations. The idea that populations of coral-reef fishes are recruitment limited by larval supply has become both popular and increasingly controversial. Researchers from both countries have become polarized in their thinking about recruitment limitation, resulting in a conceptual stalemate that seems to be inhibiting scientific progress. By bringing together top investigators from both countries, including a selected few from Canada, Japan, France and the United Kingdom, the workshop will seek to begin the resolution of this controversy. Among the topics to be considered are appropriate spatial scales for reef fish studies, competition effects on survivorship, predation and density-dependence, recruitment limitation, and the management and conservation of reef fisheries. Australian support for this workshop is provided by the Australian Department of Industry, Science and Technology (DIST).