Symposium: Crossroads of Plant, Animal, and Microbial Ecology, to be held August 10, 2001, Madison, WI

虽然植物生态生理学和动物生态生理学在过去几十年中都有强劲的增长，但这些领域的发展不同，植物和动物生态生理学之间的差距越来越大。植物生理生态学通过放大生理过程与生态系统科学的联系日益紧密，而动物生理生态学家在进化生理学领域的发展更为强劲。 尽管如此，这两个社区研究基本相似的生理生态过程。 美国生态学会（植物生态生理学的主要学会之一）和综合与比较生物学学会（动物生态生理学的主要学会）的研究人员和专业学会成员认识到了这个问题。他们还认识到增加方法和焦点的共享将为这两个领域带来收益。本次研讨会重点关注植物、动物和微生物生态生理学的共性和差异，探索不同研究人员群体之间增加串扰的好处。 它将于2001年8月在威斯康星州麦迪逊举行的美国生态学会年会上举行。 除了在这个大型的，广泛参加的会议上接触与会者外，研讨会的结果将发表在《生物科学》杂志上。

While both plant ecophysiology and animal ecophysiology have enjoyed strong growth over the past decades, the fields have developed differently, accompanied by an increasing gap between plant and animal ecophysiology. Plant physiological ecology has increasingly developed links to ecosystem science by scaling up physiological process, whereas animal ecophysiologists have developed more strongly in the realm of evolutionary physiology. Despite this, both communities study fundamentally similar ecophysiological processes. Researchers and professional society members in the Ecological Society of America (one of the principal societies for plant ecophysiology) and in Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (the principal society for animal ecophysiology), recognize the problem. They also recognize the gains to both fields that will accrue from increased sharing of both methods and foci.This symposium focuses on commonalities and differences in plant, animal, and microbial ecophysiology, exploring the benefits of increased cross-talk among different communities of researchers. It will be held at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Madison, WI, in August 2001. In addition to reaching participants at this large, widely attended meeting, results from the symposium will be published in the journal, BioScience.