U.S.-Mexico Workshop: Vulnerability of Rhodolith Beds to Global Climate Change: Future Research; La Paz, Baja California, October 21-20, 2006

这个美国-题为“红柱石层对全球气候变化的脆弱性：未来研究”的墨西哥讲习班将于2006年10月21日至20日在下加利福尼亚的拉巴斯举行。 该研讨会，由戴安娜L。Steller和Michael S.圣何塞州立大学的福斯特和墨西哥拉巴斯的南下加利福尼亚大学的拉斐尔·里奥斯梅纳-罗德里格斯一起，旨在汇集来自欧洲、澳大利亚、巴西和墨西哥的研究人员，评估最近的研究，并重新制定关键的研究目标，旨在发展一个协调的全球努力，以确定对红柱石床的威胁（包括生态、生理、古生物和生态系统服务）以及减轻这些影响的战略。红珊瑚石是一组分布于全球的、形态多样的、自由生长的珊瑚状红藻根瘤（Cordolithales，Rhodophyta），在世界范围内形成广泛的生物床。类似于珊瑚礁和海藻森林，红柱石创造了一个支持物种多样化组合的生物栖息地。此外，由于其碳酸钙的基础设施，红柱石床可以作为一个重要的全球碳汇。然而，对蔷薇辉石的分类、分布和基本生态学知之甚少。通过汇集有关红柱石的主要专家，该讲习班将有助于加强在研究和保护这些脆弱和知之甚少的生境方面的国际协调，提高公众对红柱石床的存在和重要性的认识，并促进学生的研究和国际交流。

This U.S.-Mexico Workshop entitled "Vulnerability of Rhodolith Beds to Global Climate Change: Future Research," will take place in La Paz, Baja California, October 21-20, 2006. The workshop, organized by Dr. Diana L. Steller and Dr. Michael S. Foster of the San Jose State University together with Rafael Riosmena-Rodriguez of the Universidad de Baja California Sur in La Paz, Mexico, aims to bring together researchers from Europe, Australia, Brazil, and Mexico to assess recent research and reformulate critical research objectives directed at developing a coordinated global effort to identify threats to rhodolith beds (including ecological, physiological, paleontological, and ecosystem services) as well as strategies to ameliorate these impacts. Rhodoliths are a group of globally distributed, morphologically diverse, free-livingcoralline red algal nodules (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) that form extensive living bedsworldwide. Similar to coral reefs and kelp forests, rhodoliths create a biogenic habitat that supports a diverse assemblage of species. In addition, due to their calcium carbonateinfrastructure, rhodolith beds may serve as an important global carbon sink. However, rhodolith taxonomy, distribution and basic ecology are poorly understood. By bringing together leading experts on rhodoliths, this workshop will help to strengthen international coordination on the research and protection of these fragile and poorly understood habitats, increase public awareness of the existence and importance of rhodolith beds, and promote student research and international exchanges.