Really Big Biogeographically-based Integrative Historical and Ecological Science: Grand Collaborative Studies of Whole Biotas

真正基于生物地理学的综合历史和生态科学：整个生物群的大型合作研究

• 批准号: 0639022
• 负责人: Brett Riddle
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Nevada Las Vegas
• 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: 2006-09-01 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0639022&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Really; Big; Biogeographically; based; Integrative

Many of the really exciting advances in science happen when researchers from different disciplines come together to collaborate on very large-scale questions. Yet, in the biological arenas of ecology, evolution, and biogeography, these sorts of grand collaborations have yet to emerge, and as such, our capacity to understand the complex interaction of biotic and abiotic processes involved in the assembly of the world's terrestrial and marine biotas is currently inadequate. The goal of this workshop is to bring highly productive researchers representing each of these disciplines together for three days of discussion on how to form a new, integrative and collaborative template for doing large-scale, multidisciplinary science on the historical development and current ecological attributes of the world's most fascinating and important biotic assemblages. Objectives will include exploration of cyberinfrastructure requirements, and structure needed in funding agencies to support such large-scale and integrative efforts.Of broader significance, this workshop will provide biologists with a new approach to understanding processes involved in assembling and sustaining the world's biological diversity, critically important at this time given the combined threats of stresses such as habitat destruction, invasive species, and global climate change on the future health of the Earth's biological diversity.

当来自不同学科的研究人员在非常大规模的问题上合作时，科学上许多真正令人兴奋的进步就会发生。然而，在生态学、进化论和生物地理学的生物学领域，这种宏大的合作尚未出现，因此，我们理解世界陆地和海洋生物群组装过程中涉及的生物和非生物过程的复杂相互作用的能力目前还不够。这次研讨会的目标是将代表这些学科的高生产率研究人员聚集在一起，进行为期三天的讨论，讨论如何形成一个新的、综合的和协作的模板，以对世界上最迷人和最重要的生物组合的历史发展和当前生态属性进行大规模、多学科的科学研究。目标将包括探索网络基础设施要求，以及资助机构支持这种大规模和综合努力所需的结构。更广泛的意义是，这次研讨会将为生物学家提供一种新的方法来理解涉及组装和维持世界生物多样性的过程，鉴于栖息地破坏、入侵物种和全球气候变化等压力对地球生物多样性未来健康的综合威胁，这一点在这个时候至关重要。