COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Interdisciplinary workshop on assisted migration - August 2008, Milwaukee, WI.

协助迁移是一项研究不足但可能存在争议的战略，旨在通过有目的地将生物体运送到气候变化下预计将占据的区域来保护受全球变暖威胁的物种。协助迁移旨在克服与栖息地丧失、快速气候变化和定居生活史特征相关的扩散障碍。将举办一个讲习班，根据目前关于影响物种分布的生物和非生物力量的生态知识，评估这一新生的保护战略。目标是综合科学信息和不确定性，以便为协助移徙提供第一个评估和研究计划。这次会议将对协助移徙的潜在好处和危险以及执行过程中的潜在挑战进行严格评估。该项目将有助于促进参与者在知识、专业和网络方面的强大进步，这将导致未来的合作，并有助于建立知识基础设施。它还将支持研究生的积极参与，并提供一个机会，为K-12科学课程开发一个课程模块（关于全球变化和物种灭绝）。本次研讨会的成果将有助于促进这一对话，明确阐述目前对相关生态和进化过程的科学认识的优势和局限性。

Assisted Migration is an understudied, but potentially controversial, strategy that aims to preserve species threatened by global warming by purposefully transporting organisms to regions they are projected to occupy under climate change. Assisted migration aims to overcome dispersal barriers associated with habitat loss, rapid climatic change, and sedentary life history traits. A workshop will be held to evaluate this nascent conservation strategy in the light of current ecological knowledge about the biotic and abiotic forces influencing species distributions. The goal is to integrate scientific information and uncertainty, so as to provide the first evaluation and plan-of-study for assisted migration. This meeting will result in a critical evaluation of the potential benefits and dangers of assisted migration, as well as the potential challenges of its implementation. This project will help to facilitate strong intellectual, professional and networking advances for participants, which will lead to future collaborations and help to build intellectual infrastructure. It will also support the active participation of graduate students, and provide an opportunity to develop a curriculum module (on global change and species extinction) for K-12 science classes. The products emerging from this workshop will help facilitate this dialogue by clearly articulating the strengths and limitations of current scientific understanding of relevant ecological and evolutionary processes.