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

研究植物王国和动物王国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，彼此之间很少互动。每一个生物学家群体都发展出了对另一个群体极其有价值的见解和范式，但却很少被分享。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：协同作用的机会”专题讨论会将打破这种隔离，汇集来自植物生物学和动物生物学世界的大使。这次研讨会是由美国生态学会主要以植物为导向的生理生态学部分和综合与比较生物学学会主要以动物为导向的比较生理学和生物化学部门共同安排的，并在美国生态学会年会上举办了一个平行研讨会。这次研讨会的关键是，植物和动物都是从共同的祖先进化而来的，它们的细胞中有着非常相似的生物机制，但它们与环境的相互作用方式却截然不同。植物通常必须呆在一个地方（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）动物可以移动和使用行为来逃避或应对环境挑战。植物和动物都发展了一系列化学和物理防御来对抗环境压力。研究植物或动物的科学家们已经对每个王国如何应对环境挑战和生活在不同环境中做出了惊人的发现。这次研讨会将汇集来自植物和动物生态生理学社区的杰出生态生理学家，希望为这些领域带来新的观点，并促进每个领域的新进展。生物学家团队，每个团队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：生物体如何或将如何应对全球气候变化？生物体如何感知环境的变化，以及如何协调不同细胞的活动来做出反应？生物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？生物如何应对极端恶劣的环境？每个团队将从他们不同的角度提出广泛和综合的观点。植物成员和动物成员将从他/她的领域流行的观点和范式来讨论这个话题。每两个或三个演讲将以一个指定的讨论者主持的正式讨论结束，整个研讨会将以全体讨论结束。基于研讨会演讲的手稿将发表在《美国动物学家》上，从而在会议之外进行广泛传播。

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.