Symposium: Plant and Animal Physiology Ecology, Comparative Physiology/ Biochemistry, and Evolutionary Physiology, to be held Jan 2001, Chicago, IL

研究植物界和动物界的生物学家可能在不同的世界工作，参加不同的会议，属于不同的社会，彼此之间几乎没有互动。每个生物学家社区都开发出了对彼此非常有价值的见解和范例--但很少被分享。在芝加哥举行的综合与比较生物学学会年会上，“植物和动物生理生态学、比较生理学/生物化学和进化生理学：协同的机会”的研讨会将通过汇聚来自植物生物学和动物生物界的大使来打破这种孤立。这次研讨会是由美国生态学会以植物为主的生理生态学分会和综合比较生物学学会以动物为主的比较生理学和生化分会联合举办的，此前美国生态学会于8月份在德克萨斯州斯诺伯德举行的年会上举办了一个平行研讨会。这次研讨会的关键是，植物和动物是从共同的祖先进化而来的，它们的细胞中有非常相似的生物机械，但它们与环境的互动方式非常不同。植物通常必须留在一个地方(除了它们的种子和花粉)，因此必须忍受环境带来的任何挑战。相比之下，许多(但不是所有)动物可以移动并利用行为来逃避或应对环境挑战。植物和动物都发展出了一系列针对环境压力的化学和物理防御措施。无论是研究植物还是动物的科学家都有了惊人的发现，关于每个王国如何应对环境挑战和生活在不同的环境中。这次研讨会将汇集来自植物和动物生态生理学领域的杰出生态生理学家，希望为这些领域带来新的视角，并推动每个领域的新进展。这次研讨会的设计是一个不同寻常的设计。生物学家团队，每个人都包括植物科学家和动物科学家，将考虑四个具有根本意义的相关科学问题：生物如何或将如何应对全球气候变化？生物体如何感觉到它们的环境发生了变化，它们如何协调不同细胞的活动来做出反应？有机体如何在应对压力时暂时关闭自己，这对它们的种群意味着什么？如果不是致命的环境，那么生物体如何应对异常恶劣的环境？每个团队将从不同的角度展示广泛和综合的前景。植物成员(S)和动物成员(S)将从他/她的领域中流行的视角和范式来讨论这一主题。每一对或三个报告将以由指定的讨论者领导的正式讨论结束，整个研讨会将以全体讨论结束。基于研讨会演讲的手稿将在美国动物学家杂志上发表，并因此在会议之外得到广泛传播。

Biologists who study the plant kingdom and the animal kingdom may work in different worlds, attend separate meetings, belong to separate societies, and interact little with one another. Each community of biologists has developed insights and paradigms that could be extremely valuable to the other -- but are too seldom shared. At the Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in Chicago, the symposium on "Plant and animal physiological ecology, comparative physiology/biochemistry, and evolutionary physiology: opportunities for synergy" will break through this isolation by bringing together ambassadors from the plant biology and animal biology worlds. This symposium was jointly arranged by the largely plant-oriented Physiological Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of America and the largely animal-oriented Division of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, and follows a parallel workshop at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Snowbird, UT, in August. The key to this symposium is that plants and animals have evolved from common ancestors and have much similar biological machinery in their cells, but interact with their environments in very different ways. Plants usually must stay in one place (except for their seeds and pollen) and thus must tolerate whatever challenges their environment presents. By contrast, many (but not all) animals can move and use behavior to escape from or respond to environmental challenges. Both plants and animals have developed a wide array of chemical and physical defenses against environmental stress. Scientists who have studied either plants or animals have made spectacular discoveries about how each kingdom responds to environmental challenges and live in diverse environments. This symposium will bring together distinguished ecophysiologists from the plant and animal ecophysiology communities, in hopes of bringing new perspectives to these fields and stimulating new advances in each.The design of this symposium is an unusual one. Teams of biologists, each including both plant scientists and animal scientists, will consider four related scientific issues of fundamental significance: How do or will organisms respond to global climate change? How do organisms sense that their environment has changed, and how do they coordinate the activities of their diverse cells in response? How can organisms turn themselves off temporarily in response to stress, and what does this mean to their populations? How can organisms respond to extraordinarily severe if not lethal environments? Each team will present broad and synthetic outlooks from their diverse perspectives. The plant member(s) and the animal member(s) will address the topic from the perspectives and paradigms prevalent in his/her field. Each pair or trio of presentations will conclude with a formal discussion led by an assigned discussant, and the entire symposium will culminate in a plenary discussion. Manuscripts based on the symposium presentations will be published in American Zoologist and thus undergo widespread dissemination beyond the meeting proper.