Conference: ISBE 2008 conference, to be held at Cornell University in August 2008

提案#0834252：支持国际行为生态学学会2008年会议PI：国家科学基金会的支助将为国际行为生态学学会将于2008年8月在康奈尔大学举行的第12届两年一度的大会提供资金。ISBE大会的组成非常国际化，在新世界和旧世界轮流举行。ISBE会议在参与和领导方面也异常均衡，其成员和会议结构具有很强的国际性，旨在促进该领域最知名的研究人员与参加这些会议的许多来自世界各地的年轻科学家和学生之间的互动。ISBE大会往往比动物行为学会的会议更强调行为进化的理论基础和过程。随着话题的演变和流行程度的变化，理论和实验的明确融合仍然是连接学会成员的主线。分类范围很广，从无脊椎动物到包括人类在内的脊椎动物，主要主题包括沟通、合作和冲突、性选择、个性和觅食策略。2008年ISBE大会吸引了创纪录数量的参与者(1020名科学家)，这是康奈尔大学有史以来举行的最大规模的会议，也是对校园的挑战。新闻报道将把令人振奋的新科学发现传播到新闻服务机构，供全球分发。

Proposal # 0834252: Support for ISBE 2008 conferencePI: Sandra L. VehrencampSupport from the NSF will provide funds for the 12th biennial congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology (ISBE) to be held at Cornell University in August 2008. ISBE congresses are exceptionally international in composition and held alternately in the New World and the Old World. ISBE meetings are also unusually gender-balanced, both in participation and in leadership, and the strongly international membership and meeting structure are designed to facilitate interactions between the most well known researchers in the field and the many younger scientists and students from around the world who attend these meetings. ISBE congresses tend to place a greater emphasis on the theoretical bases and processes of behavioral evolution than Animal Behavior Society meetings. The explicit blend of theory and experiment has continued to be the main thread linking members of the Society as topics have evolved and shifted in popularity. Taxonomic coverage is broad, ranging from invertebrates to vertebrates including humans, and primary topics include communication, cooperation and conflict, sexual selection, personality, and foraging strategies. The 2008 ISBE congress has attracted a record number of participants (1020 scientists), the largest conference ever held at Cornell and a challenge for the campus. Press coverage will disseminate the exciting new scientific findings into the news services for worldwide distribution.