Planning Workshops for the Development and Commencement of the Mediterranean Reserve Managers International Training Cooperative

加州大学奥克兰分校校长办公室获得了一笔赠款，用于举办规划研讨会并建立新的工作组，以协调加州大学自然保护区系统（NRS）的管理。NRS是世界上最大的由大学管理的自然保护区系统，管理着36个相对未受干扰的国家自然生态系统，总面积约55,000公顷（135,000英亩），以及支持教学和研究活动所需的基础设施。NRS在资源管理界没有提供服务的领域提供生态专业知识，部分是通过发展和维持对生态系统结构和功能以及关键物种种群动态的长期研究。规划工作的目标将是提高生物野外站的潜力，通过以下方式解决当今科学和社会面临的最紧迫的环境挑战：(1)促进跨学科的科学研究，为环境管理提供信息和支持，以保护加州独特的生物多样性和独特的生态系统；(2)增加未来保育专业人士的教育机会；(3)提供环境宣传项目，不仅与加州公众有关，也与其他地中海气候地区有关。地中海气候区是全球公认的“生物多样性热点地区”，国家自然资源研究中心在其中一个地中海气候区开展工作。这些地区加起来只占世界陆地面积的2%多一点，但却支持着大约20%的维管植物物种。这些地中海气候区也被国际公认为是世界上最危险的生态系统之一，由于对土地利用和气候变化的敏感性，预计到2100年，这些地区的生物多样性将发生巨大的比例变化。这些研讨会和工作组的成果将对广泛的利益范围具有重要意义，包括大学系统内外、加州州内外和国际。他们将强调和关注生态和全球变化的复杂性，以及与保护科学相关的社会科学研究，扩大这些学科的客户群，并激励其他人了解它们之间的联系。这些都是最好地利用保护科学为自然区域的资源管理提供信息的关键问题。该培训计划的长期目标是通过应用研究机会，为全球五个地中海气候区域的土地管理提供培训机会。这将导致一项培训方案，即地中海保护区管理人员国际合作社（合作社），该方案将提供一种手段，使地中海气候世界不同地区的保护区和实地站管理人员相互交流并向其同事学习。该合作社将为加利福尼亚和其他四个地中海地区的保护区管理人员提供实际操作培训，以便利用现有的最佳科学知识，告知他们如何保存和保护他们负责的生态系统，并制定积极主动的管理计划，以预测潜在的威胁，如入侵物种、非本地病原体、气候变化、保护区的人口压力和其他干扰事件。

The University of California, Office of the President, Oakland is awarded a grant to conduct planning workshops and establish new working groups that will coordinate the management of University of California Natural Reserve System (NRS). The NRS is the largest university-run natural reserve system in the world and manages 36 sites with relatively undisturbed examples of the state's natural ecosystems, totaling approximately 55,000 ha (135,000 acres) in area, as well as basic facilities of infrastructure needed to support teaching and research activities. The NRS provides ecological expertise in areas not otherwise served by the resource management community, in part by developing and maintaining long-term research on ecosystem structure and function and the population dynamics of key species. The goal of the planning effort will be to advance the potential of biological field stations for addressing the most pressing environmental challenges facing science and society today by: (1) promoting cross-disciplinary scientific research that informs and supports environmental management to protect California's exceptional biodiversity and unique ecosystems; (2) enhancing educational opportunities for future conservation professionals; and, (3) providing environmental outreach programs relevant not only to the general California public but to other Mediterranean-climate regions as well. The NRS operates within one of the world's five Mediterranean-climate regions, globally recognized as "biodiversity hotspots". The combined regions cover only slightly more than 2% of the world's land areas, but support approximately 20% of all vascular plant species. These Mediterranean-climate regions also are recognized internationally as some of the most imperiled ecosystems in the world and are predicted to experience very great proportional change in biodiversity by 2100 owing to their sensitivity to changes in land use and climate. Products of these workshops and working groups will be significant to a wide spectrum of interests, inside and outside of the university system, internal and external to the state of California and internationally. They will highlight and focus on the complexity of ecological and global change, and social science research related to conservation science, expand the clientele for these disciplines, and motivate others to understand their linkages. These are all critical issues for making the best use of conservation science to inform resource management of natural areas. A longer term goal of this training program is to provide training opportunities globally among the five Mediterranean-climate regions of the world for land management through applied research opportunities. This will lead to a training program, the Mediterranean Reserve Managers International Cooperative (Cooperative), which will provide a means whereby reserve and field station managers in different parts of the Mediterranean-climate world interact with and learn from their colleagues. The Cooperative will provide hands-on training for reserve managers in California and the four other Mediterranean regions to use the best available science to inform how they preserve and protect the ecosystems for which they are responsible, and develop proactive management plans to anticipate potential threats such as invasive species, non-native pathogens, climate change, human population pressures on protected areas, and other disturbances events.