U.S.-Mexico Workshop: Collaborative Long-term Research Across North American Biomes, May 1996

此美洲项目奖将资助八位美国科学家参加国际生态学和生物多样性研讨会的旅费和相关费用。研讨会将包括两次会议，一次在墨西哥巴亚尔塔港举行，另一次在美国新墨西哥州塞维利亚塔国家野生动物保护区的塞维利亚塔长期生态研究基地举行。主要目标是在美国和墨西哥的研究人员之间建立新的合作关系，并为国际研究开辟新的方向。在这两个地点举行会议将使与会者更好地了解整个北美大陆所代表的生态多样性。第二次会议将在第一次会议后几个月举行，以便有时间审议第一次会议的讨论，并促进第二次会议更好、更迅速地拟订建议。变异和多样性是维持种群、物种、群落、生态系统和整个生物圈的基本要素。生物系统是对抗剧烈变化的缓冲，对生态系统的维持至关重要，但尽管具有这一重要功能，物种正在消失，生态系统正在以越来越快的速度改变。在局部尺度上观测到的许多变化是更大规模问题的结果，例如全球变化。这些问题的解决将需要在多个尺度上进行国际合作和研究。这个项目将有助于建立一个有兴趣在北美大陆研究这些问题的科学家的国际网络。＊＊＊

9513041 Yates This Americas Program award will fund travel and related expenses for eight U.S. scientists to participate in a workshop on International Ecology and Biodiversity. The workshop will consist of two meetings, one in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and the second one in the U.S. at the Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological Research site at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico. The primary objectives are to establish new collaborations between researchers from the U.S. and Mexico and to open new directions for international research. Holding meetings at the two sites will allow the participants to gain a much better understanding of the ecological diversity represented across the North American continent. The second meeting will be held a few months after the first to provide time for consideration of discussions from the first meeting, and facilitate better and more rapid proposal development at the second meeting. Variation and diversity are essential elements in the maintenance of population, species, communities, ecosystems and the entire biosphere. Biological systems serve as a buffer against dramatic change, and are critical to ecosystem maintenance, but despite this important function, species are being lost and ecosystems altered at an ever increasing rate. Much of the observed changes on local scales are the results of larger scale problems, such as global change. The solutions to these problems will require international cooperation and research on multiple scales. This project will contribute to the development of an international network of scientists interested in researching these problems in the North American continent. ***