Symposium Support: Neuroecology - Neural Determinants of Ecological Processes from Individuals to Ecosystems (Salt Lake, UT, January 3-7, 2011)

从NSF收到的资金将用于支持一次题为“神经生态学：从个体到生态系统的生态过程的神经决定因素”的研讨会，该研讨会将于2011年1月3日至7日在犹他州盐湖城举行的综合与比较生物学学会2011年会议上作为全社会研讨会提交。这次研讨会的目的是促进神经生态学的新的综合和一般理论。神经生态学综合了神经行为学和生态学原理。神经生态学既体现了行为的神经基础，又体现了行为在自然栖息地内建立生物体丰度和物种分布模式中的作用。因此，它的规模从分子到社区和生态系统。研讨会的主题涉及动物行为、神经科学、化学/生理生态学以及物理和化学等学科。与资深研究人员一起，本次研讨会及相关活动包括研究生、博士后和初级教员(包括妇女和少数民族)的参与。研讨会记录发表在该学会的期刊《综合与比较生物学》上。

Funds received from the NSF will be used to support for a symposium, entitled "Neuroecology: Neural Determinants of Ecological Processes from Individuals to Ecosystems," to be presented as a Society-Wide Symposium at the 2011 Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, on January 3-7, 2011, in Salt Lake City, Utah. The goal of this symposium is to promote a new synthesis and general theory of neuroecology. Neuroecology synthesizes neuroethological and ecological principles. Neuroecology embodies both the neural basis for behavior and the role of behavior in establishing patterns of organism abundances and species distributions within natural habitats. As such, it scales from molecules to communities and ecosystems. The topics included in the symposium cross the disciplines of animal behavior, neuroscience, chemical/physiological ecology as well as physics and chemistry. Along with senior researchers this this symposium and related events includes participation of graduate students, post-docs and junior faculty including women and ethnic minorities. Symposium proceedings are published in the society's journal, "Integrative and Comparative Biology".