Symposium: "Physiological Ecology of Migration," New Orleans, LA, 24-30 September, 2002

该提案是为2002年9月24日至31日在新奥尔良举行的第三届北美鸟类学大会（NAOC）上的“迁徙的生理生态学：如何飞行、快速和途中进食”研讨会提供支持的。本次研讨会的目的有两个：(a)汇集在不同生物组织水平（分子、细胞、有机体、种群）上积极研究候鸟的杰出研究人员；(b)在广泛的生态背景下研究候鸟分类多样性的研究人员。这样的关注是及时的，因为最近的重要工作已经解决了飞行鸟类的代谢生理学和候鸟器官系统中表型灵活性的重要性。然而，这项工作还没有得到充分的整合，特别是在不同层次的生物组织中，也没有将这项工作传播给对迁徙期间鸟类生态学感兴趣的鸟类学家。研讨会的撰稿人将为研究迁徙的生理生态学提供一系列不同的观点和方法，部分原因是他们包括处于职业生涯不同阶段的科学家，以及来自不同国家的男女代表。

This proposal is for support of a symposium "Physiological Ecology of Migration: How to Fly, Fast, and Feed En Route " at the Third North American Ornithological Congress (NAOC) on 24-31 September 2002 in New Orleans, LA. The objectives for this symposium are twofold: (a) to bring together outstanding researchers who are actively studying migratory birds at different levels of biological organization (molecular, cellular, organismal, populations) and (b) to include researchers who can address the physiology of a taxonomically diverse set of migratory birds within a broad ecological context. Such a focus is timely in that significant recent work has addressed the metabolic physiology of flying birds and the importance of phenotypic flexibility in organ systems for migrating birds. However, this work has not been adequately integrated especially across various levels of biological organization, nor has this work been disseminated to a broader audience of ornithologists interested in the ecology of birds during migration. The contributors at the symposium will provide a diverse set of perspectives and approaches for studying the physiological ecology of migration in part because they include scientists at different stages of their careers, and from various countries represented by both men and women.