Workshop on Research Opportunities for Vegetation Science Arising out of National Vegetation Classification and Mapping Initiatives, June 4-9, 1995 at Rice University

9506411 Harcombe这项建议为将于1995年6月在德克萨斯州休斯顿举行的国际植被科学家协会第38届专题讨论会同时举行的为期两天的会议寻求经费。会议的重点将是联邦机构和非政府组织在美国大片地区对植被关联进行分类和绘制地图的努力所产生的基础研究机会。会议的主要目标是促进合作，利用新的可用数据，在科学家之间提供关键的交流，改善国家植被分类工作，并可能帮助微调正在进行的分类和制图工作。会议将重点讨论三个问题：1)学术生态学家如何应对国家科学需求，解决国家植被分类和制图过程中遇到的问题？2)由于国家分类和制图工作所产生的信息迅速扩散，哪些突破将成为可能？3)为了确保充分实现生态数据急剧增加所带来的潜力，需要哪些新的分析、数据管理和行政工具？这次会议召开的时机非常理想。IAVS会议是世界上唯一可能将来自许多不同的、有些孤立的领域和观点的从事尖端研究的人聚集在一起的会议。因此，它们构成了一个独特的讨论和对话论坛。为了促进学术生态学家和资源管理者之间的对话，会议将确保以这样一种方式收集数据，以最大限度地发挥其科学效用和应用价值。

9506411 Harcombe This proposal seeks funding for a two-day conference meeting in conjunction with the 38th Symposium of the International Association of Vegetation Scientists to be held in June 1995, in Houston, Texas. The focus of the conference will be opportunities for basic research arising from efforts by federal agencies and non-governmental organizations to classify and map vegetation associations in large areas of the United States. The main goals of the conference are to catalyze collaborations to take advantage of newly available data, to provide critical communication among scientists, to improve national vegetation classification efforts, and possibly to help fine-tune ongoing classification and mapping efforts. The conference will focus the research agenda by addressing three questions: 1) How can academic ecologists respond to the national scientific need to address problems encountered in the national vegetation classification and mapping process? 2) What breakthroughs will become possible as a consequence of the rapid proliferation of information engendered by national classification and mapping efforts? 3) What new analytical, data management, and administrative tools will be necessary to ensure full realization of the potential afforded by the dramatic increase in ecological data? The timing of this conference is ideal. The IAVS meetings are the only ones in the world likely to bring together people doing cutting-edge research from many different, and somewhat isolated, areas and perspectives. Hence they constitute a unique forum for discussion and dialog. In fostering dialog between academic ecologists and resource managers, the conference will ensure that data are collected in such a way as to maximize their scientific utility, as well as their applied value.