Workshop on Plant Dispersal and Migration in Response to Climate Change: An IGBP-GCTE Focus 2 Workshop, October 16-22, 1996, Canberra, Australia

研究全球变化的原因和后果的研究人员所面临的一系列关键问题是植物可能通过动态迁移来响应气候和其他条件的变化。尽管植物迁移的总体趋势在长期的历史记录中是显而易见的，但对植物群落变化动态的更集中的研究才刚刚开始解决许多重要问题。因此，研究人员之间存在着相当大的不确定性、相互矛盾的证据和不同的意见。为了更好地协调来自许多不同国家的主要研究人员在处理这一问题和相关主题方面的活动，全球变化和陆地生态系统（GCTE）项目已被确立为国际地圈-生物圈计划（IGBP）的核心项目。CGTE领导人确定了四个主要的研究重点。其中一个领域（焦点2）强调生态系统结构，包括生态系统的变化，如植物迁移。GCTE领导人选择于1996年10月在澳大利亚新南威尔士州贝特曼斯湾召开一次讲习班，确定与与全球变化有关的植物扩散和迁移有关的一致、不一致和不确定的领域。除了将来自生态学和相关科学领域的三十多名主要研究人员聚集在一起之外，研讨会还将发表一篇重要的学术论文，综合有关植物扩散和迁移以应对气候条件变化的知识现状。讲习班的主要结论和建议的摘要也将在若干通讯中报道，并在全球技术中心网站上登载。该奖项将为更多来自美国和其他国家的科学家参加研讨会提供支持。其他来源也为讲习班提供支持，包括电力研究所（EPRI）、美国林务局和澳大利亚当地来源。通过这一奖项，通过全球变化研究小组委员会参与美国全球变化研究项目协调管理的机构将为这一重要的研究活动提供支持。该奖项的资金由美国国家科学基金会和美国国家航空航天局提供。

A critical set of issues confronting researchers examining the causes and consequences of global change is the dynamics through which plants might migrate in response to changes in climatic and other conditions. Although the general tendency of plants to migrate is readily evident in the long-term historical record, more focused studies of the dynamics of plant community change have only begun to address many important questions. As a result, considerable uncertainty, contradictory evidence, and divergent opinion exists among researchers. In order to better coordinate the activities of leading researchers from many different nations in dealing with this and related topics, the Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems (GCTE) project has been established as a core project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). CGTE leaders have identifies four major research foci. One of these areas (Focus 2) emphasizes Ecosystem Structure, including ecosystem changes like plant migrations. GCTE leaders have chosen to identify areas of agreement, disagreement, and uncertainty related to plant dispersal and migration related to global change by convening a workshop in Batemans Bay, N.S.W., Australia, in October 1996. In addition to bringing together more than three dozen leading researchers from ecology and related sciences, the workshop will result in a major scholarly paper synthesizing the current state of knowledge related to plant dispersal and migration in response to changing climatic conditions. Summaries of the major conclusions and recommendations of the workshop also will be reported in a number of newsletters and posted on the GCTE site on the WWW. This award will provide support to enable more scientists from the U.S. and other nations to participate in the workshop. Support for the workshop also is being provided from other sources, including the Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI), the U.S. Forest Service, and local sources in Australia. Through this award, agencies that participate through the Subcommittee on Global Change Research in the coordinated management of the U.S. Global Change Research Program will provide support for this important research activity. The funds for this award have been provided by NSF and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.