Group Travel Support for the Symposium "Biogeography and Ecology - Two Lenses in One Telescope"; Herakleon, Crete; January 2011

生态学和地理学都是具有不同方法的大学科：生态学倾向于关注自然中的局部模式和过程，而地理学则关注大规模的大陆模式和过程。然而，这两个学科的总体目标是更好地理解自然生物系统。本项目将支助研究生出席和参加国际生物地理学会题为“生物地理学和生态学-一个望远镜中的两个镜头”的专题讨论会。在这次研讨会上，生态学家和生态地理学家将提出对两个学科共同感兴趣的四个主题的分析：生态位，比较生态学和宏观生态学，群落组装和多样性。该研讨会将是第一次明确汇集生态学家和生态学家，批判性地审查和讨论这两个学科的交叉点，并将有助于引导未来的研究在每个合并的学科。这次研讨会和由此产生的期刊是及时和必要的，因为区域和国际研究计划越来越普遍，以应对生态学和地理学之间的界面上的大规模问题。许多环境挑战，如生物多样性保护和气候变化发生在区域尺度上，将需要生态学和地理学共同指导以科学为基础的政策和决策。与区域和大规模问题的科学一样，环境管理和监管工作也在跨越国界，达到区域规模。更直接的是，研究生将获得资助参加研讨会和国际生物地理学会会议。对学生的旅行支持将有助于启动学生？职业生涯，并将对生态地理学研究的未来产生重大影响。

Ecology and biogeography are each large disciplines with different approaches: ecology tends to focus on local patterns and processes in nature, while biogeography focuses on large-scale, continental patterns and processes. Yet both disciplines share the overall goal to better understand natural biological systems. This project will support graduate students to attend and participate in a special symposium of the International Biogeography Society, entitled Biogeography and Ecology - Two Lenses in One Telescope. In this symposium, both ecologists and biogeographers will present analyses of four subjects of common interest to the two disciplines: niche, comparative ecology and macroecology, community assembly, and diversity. The symposium will be the first to explicitly bring together ecologists and biogeographers to critically review and discuss the intersection of the two disciplines, and will help steer future research in each of the merging disciplines. The symposium and resulting journal issue are timely and essential because regional and international research programs are increasingly common in response to large-scale problems at the interface between ecology and biogeography.Many of the environmental challenges, such as biodiversity conservation and climate change occur at regional scales, and will require that ecology and biogeography together guide science-based policies and decisions. Like the science of regional and large-scale questions, environmental management and regulatory efforts are also crossing borders and reaching to regional scales. More immediately, graduate students will be funded to attend the symposium and International Biogeography Society conference. Travel support for students will help launch students? careers and will have a strong influence on the future of research in ecological biogeography.