U.S.-Australia Workshshop: Frugivory and Seed Dispersal

该奖项支持2005年7月9日至16日在澳大利亚布里斯班格里菲斯大学举办的美澳果树与种子传播研讨会。联合组织者是犹他州立大学的尤金·舒普和澳大利亚堪培拉CSIRO(英联邦科学与工业研究组织)的大卫·韦斯科特。来自美国的15名科学家将与澳大利亚支持的20名研究人员会面。讲习班与一个国际研讨会相结合，有更多的研究人员参加，其中包括来自新西兰和几个亚洲国家的一些研究人员。讨论将包括对国际合作的讨论，特别是能够最好地或也许只有通过大规模国际合作研究才能解决的重大问题。计划召开一次研讨会，研讨会的成果将发布在犹他州立大学或格里菲斯大学的研讨会网站上。自达尔文以来，动植物相互作用引起了生态学家的兴趣，但果树和种子传播领域发展缓慢。尽管如此，由于出版物在过去30年中迅速增长，已经举办了三次国际研讨会--讲习班，以评估该领域并制定未来方向：1985年和1991年在墨西哥，2000年在巴西。所有这些都产生了塑造该领域的出版物，并为研究注入了活力。第四次研讨会的目标是将不同的国际研究人员聚集在一起，评估未来的合作，建立社区意识，并确定共同的线索。

Schupp0456402This award supports a U.S.-Australia Workshop on Frugivory and Seed Dispersal, July 9-16, 2005, at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. The co-organizers are Eugene Schupp, Utah State University, and David Westcott, CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization), Canberra, Australia. Fifteen scientists from the United States will meet with 20 researchers supported by Australia. The workshop is integrated with an international symposium attended by a larger set of researchers, including some from New Zealand and several Asian countries. The discussions will incorporate discussion of international collaboration, especially the major issues that can best, or perhaps only, be addressed by large-scale international collaborative research. A symposium proceedings is planned, and outcomes from the workshop will be put on a workshop website to be developed either at Utah State University or Griffith University.Plant-animal interactions have interested ecologists since Darwin, but the fields of frugivory and seed dispersal developed slowly. Nonetheless, as publications increased rapidly over the last 30 years, three international symposia-workshops have been held to assess the field and develop future directions: 1985 and 1991 in Mexico and 2000 in Brazil. All resulted in publications that shaped the field and invigorated research. The objective of this fourth symposium is to bring a diverse group of international researchers together to assess future collaboration, build a sense of community, and identify common threads.