GEOMORPHOLOGY AND ECOSYSTEMS - 36TH ANNUAL BINGHAMTON GEOMORPHOLOGY SYMPOSIUM (BGS 2005)

将不同的学科及其不同的优先事项、固有问题、研究方法、途径和成功的衡量标准整合在一起，是环境科学中的一个根本挑战。尽管地貌学在生态系统过程中发挥着基础性的作用，但在连接地貌学和生态系统生态学的学科方面，这可能是最真实的。许多地貌(即物理)过程与生态系统过程在类似的空间和时间尺度上平行发生，从而使这两个系统相互依存。因此，要预测地球生态系统的未来状态，并制定有效的管理和恢复做法，就必须对环境的这两个方面如何相互影响以及它们的过程如何相互反馈达成一致的理解。宾厄姆顿地貌学专题讨论会(BGS 2005)将围绕“地貌学和生态系统”这一主题，并将创造一个跨学科的环境，与会者将在其中审查、综合和讨论地貌学和生态系统生态学交汇处的概念范例、实地证据和模拟模型。BGS 2005将强调景观过程/形式与生态系统/生态过程的耦合，以及地貌-生态系统在空间和时间上的相互作用对环境管理和恢复的影响。这次会议将产生三个主要影响。首先，它将从根本上提高对地球生态系统的总体理解，以及如何有效地保护、管理和潜在地恢复这些生态系统。因此，这次会议的结果将对各学科和整个社会具有根本性的重要性。第二，这次会议将提供一个展示许多来自不同学科背景的国际知名学者和实践者研究的场所，特别是女性和初级地貌学家和生态学家的研究。最后，这次会议将展示在人类环境传统中工作的地理学家对一般环境科学的贡献，特别是在地貌学学科中。这次以“地貌和生态系统”为主题的跨学科会议，让专家和青年科学家探索景观开发和生态系统之间的联系。两者都是相互依存的动态系统。因此，了解这类系统的基本概念和行为对于有效管理地貌和生态系统相互关联的动态所引起的极端事件至关重要。社会需要知识和能力来应对例如土壤侵蚀、藻类繁殖、洪水、入侵物种、野火或山体滑坡等问题。会议创造了一个交流思想和了解这一新兴跨学科领域最新研究的平台。

Integrating disparate disciplines, with their different priorities, inherent questions, research methods, approaches, and metrics of success is a fundamental challenge in environmental science. No where is this perhaps more true than in bridging the disciplines of geomorphology and ecosystems ecology, despite the fundamental role that geomorphology plays in ecosystem processes. Many geomorphic (i.e., physical) processes occur parallel with ecosystem processes at similar spatial and temporal scales, thus making the two systems mutually dependent. Predicting future states of the Earth's ecosystems, and developing effective management and restoration practices, thus necessitates developing a coupled understanding of how these two aspects of the environment influence each other, and how their processes feedback into each other. The Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium (BGS 2005) will focus around the theme of "Geomorphology and Ecosystems" and will produce an interdisciplinary environment in which participants will review, synthesize and discuss the conceptual paradigms, field evidence and simulation models at the intersection between geomorphology and ecosystems ecology. BGS 2005 will emphasize the coupling of landscape processes/forms with ecosystem/ecological processes, as well as implications of geomorphology-ecosystem interactions in space and time for environmental management and restoration. There are three primary impacts that this conference will have. First, it will fundamentally improve general understanding of the Earth's ecosystems, and how these ecosystems can effectively protected, managed and potentially restored. Thus, the results from this conference will be of fundamental importance to the disciplines and society in general. Second, this conference will provide a venue for show-casing the research of many internationally acclaimed scholars and practitioners from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, particularly the research of female and junior geomorphologists and ecologists. Finally, this conference will show-case the contributions made by geographers working in the human-environment tradition to environmental science in general, particularly within the discipline of geomorphology. This interdisciplinary conference with focus on "Geomorphology and Ecosystems" allows experts and young scientists to explore the linkage between landscape development and ecosystems. Both are dynamic systems that are interdependent. Therefore the understanding of the fundamental concepts and behavior of such systems is crucial in effective managing the extreme events caused by the linked dynamics of geomorphic and ecological systems. Society needs the knowledge and ability to deal with, for example, soil erosion, algae blooms, floods, invasive species, wildfires, or landslides. The meeting creates a platform to exchange ideas and learn about the latest research in this emerging interdisciplinary field.