Unifying Current Theories of Ecology

统一当前的生态学理论

• 批准号: 0628281
• 负责人: Jessica Green
• 金额: $ 1.17万
• 依托单位: University of California - Merced
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-01 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0628281&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Unifying; Current; Theories; Ecology

The proposed collaborative working group will bring together a body of researchersto integrate three areas of ecology that have advanced rapidly over the past decade:metabolic theory, neutral biodiversity theory, and spatial macroecology. The goal of thisworking group will be to delineate the separate and overlapping realms of each area and toassess the prospects of synthesizing them into a unified theory that integrates ecological andevolutionary patterns and processes at multiple scales and throughout the biologicalhierarchy. Such a unified theory of ecology would lay the foundation for understanding andpredicting the response of real-world systems to global change.

拟议的合作工作组将汇集一批研究人员，整合过去十年快速发展的三个生态学领域：代谢理论、中性生物多样性理论和空间宏观生态学。该工作组的目标是划定每个领域的独立和重叠领域，并评估将它们综合成一个统一理论的前景，该理论在多个尺度和整个生物层次上整合了生态和进化模式和过程。这种统一的生态学理论将为理解和预测现实世界系统对全球变化的反应奠定基础。