WORKSHOP: Convening the first symposium-workshop on landslide Ecology - A perspective from tropical mountainscapes

一个研讨会研讨会，研讨会上提出了滑坡生态学-从热带山区的角度来看，有三个主要目标：第一，暴露生态学家的概念模型，强调之间的深层连接betecosystem和地貌过程，以及由此产生的大规模动态的tropicalmountains介导滑坡。 将不同背景的专家聚集在一起，在更广泛的背景下思考他们自己的滑坡工作，是打破学科内部和学科之间障碍的第一步。第二，与来自滑坡是一个相关过程的国家的观众分享关于滑坡生态学的有限但多样的工作。参加这次研讨会的生态学家使用多种技术（野外和实验室工作、树木年轮分析、遥感、地理信息系统和建模）来研究世界各地山区系统的各种问题。最后，概述一个战略计划，这将有助于滑坡生态学领域的持续增长，更广泛地说，新兴领域将生物学与地球科学联系起来。更广泛的影响-拟议的研讨会，研讨会将首次汇集学生和教师调查滑坡对热带和亚热带山区生态系统的影响，同时促进建立一个合作者网络。此外，研讨会-讲习班的目的是挑战生态学家，让他们思考生态系统如何影响这种地貌过程，使其暴露在滑坡形成的物理方面。这个专题讨论会-讲习班是在中国昆明举行的热带生物学和保护协会年会的一部分，因此预计将产生倍增效应。事实上，这次会议吸引了一批对山脉和滑坡很重要的听众。研讨会的结果将予以公布，此外，摘要将张贴在一个网页上（http：//ursula.cnnet.upr.edu/landslides/），该网页将侧重于滑坡生态学。总的来说，这次研讨会将突出生态学家可以做出的贡献，以了解大规模的地貌过程与进化，生态，环境和社会的影响。

A symposium-workshop is proposed onLandslide Ecology - A perspective from Tropical Mountainscapes that has three main goals:First, to expose ecologists to a conceptual model that emphasizes deep connections betweenecosystem and geomorphic processes, and the resulting large-scale dynamics of tropicalmountains mediated by landslides. Bringing together experts with diverse backgrounds to thinkabout their own landslide work in a broader context is a first step towards breaking down barrierswithin and among disciplines. Second, to share the limited, yet diverse work on landslide ecologywith an audience coming from nations in which landsliding is a relevant process. The ecologistsparticipating in this symposium-workshop use diverse techniques (field and lab work, tree ringanalysis, remote sensing, GIS, and modeling) to examine a diverse array of questions inmountain systems world-wide. Lastly, to outline a strategic program that will contribute to asustained growth of the field of landslide ecology, and more broadly speaking of emerging fieldslinking biology with geosciences.Broader impacts - The proposed symposium-workshop will bring together for the first timestudents and faculty investigating the influence of landslides on tropical and subtropical montaneecosystems, catalyzing at the same time the establishment of a network of collaborators. Inaddition, the symposium-workshop is meant to challenge ecologists to think of ways in whichecosystems influence this geomorphic process by exposing them to the physical aspectsunderlying the formation of landslides. This symposium-workshop has been programmed as partof the annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Kunming,China, and therefore it is expected to have a multiplicative effect. In fact, this meeting attracts anaudience for which mountains and landslides are important. The results of this symposiumworkshopwill be published, and in addition, the summaries will be posted on a web page(http://ursula.cnnet.upr.edu/landslides/) that will focus on landslide ecology. Overall, thissymposium-workshop will highlight the contribution that ecologists can make to understand alarge-scale geomorphic process with evolutionary, ecological, environmental, and societalimplications.