USDA-NSF Interagency PI Meeting (October 17&18) :Role of Applied and Basic Research in the Management of Biological Invasions

拟议中的研讨会将汇集由国家科学基金会的生态生物学计划或美国农业部的杂草和入侵植物生物学NRI计划资助的研究人员，以进行基础或应用研究，确定促进外来物种入侵完整或受干扰的生态系统的机制，并了解此类入侵的生态后果。这次会议将帮助调查人员协调和加强目前和/或未来由联邦政府资助的项目，以应对在理解和管理入侵物种方面的挑战。这次为期两天的研讨会将在华盛顿特区举行，调查人员将致力于确定入侵物种生态学和管理方面新出现的研究优先事项和前沿。研讨会的学术目标包括扩大对有效管理非本土植物入侵的科学方法、工具、需求和前景的了解。拟议研究的更广泛影响包括促进研究人员之间的跨学科合作和研究工具，并向科学界传达研讨会参与者确定的研究和管理的优先事项。具体来说，参与者将面临挑战：1)确定基础和应用生态学研究中的关键问题并确定优先顺序，这些问题必须在对入侵物种和入侵的总体管理取得成功之前得到回答；2)确定NRI和NSF计划在实现目标1中的各自角色。

The proposed workshop will bring together investigators who have been funded by either the National Science Foundation's Ecological Biology Program or the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Biology of Weedy and Invasive Plant NRI Program to conduct basic or applied research identifying the mechanisms that facilitate the invasion of exotic species into intact or disturbed ecosystems and to understand the ecological consequences of such invasions. This meeting will help investigators to coordinate and to enhance current and/or future federally funded projects that address the challenges in understanding and managing invasive species. During this two-day workshop, to be held in Washington, D.C., investigators will aim to define emerging research priorities and frontiers in the ecology and management of invasive species. The intellectual goals of the workshop including broadening understanding of the scientific approaches, tools, needs, and prospects for the efficient management of non-native plant invasions.The broader impacts of the proposed research include the facilitation of interdisciplinary cooperation and research tools among investigators and to communicate to the scientific community the priorities for research and management that are identified by the participants in the workshop. Specifically, the participants will be challenged: 1) to identify and to prioritize the critical questions in basic and applied ecological research that must be answered before management of invasive species and invasions in general can be successful; 2) to identify the respective roles of the NRI and NSF Programs in achieving goal #1.