Workshop: Climate change and species interactions: ways forward

该奖项将支持为期两天的气候变化和物种相互作用会议。不断变化的气候条件使一些物种面临着减少和灭绝的威胁，可能导致害虫和病原体的传播，并可能破坏相互作用的物种的当地社区。 这些变化对生态学家提出了重大挑战，包括：（1）预测个体物种在其特征、丰度和分布方面将如何变化;（2）了解相互作用的物种群落在其结构和功能方面将如何变化;以及（3）预测这些物种和群落的预期变化将如何影响它们提供生态系统服务（如空气和水过滤）的能力，固碳、防止侵蚀和预防疾病。科学家们需要新的模型、实验方法和统计工具来应对这些挑战，特别是要预测单个物种将迁移到哪里，物种将如何进化，整个生态群落将如何变化，以及这些物种和群落在履行生态系统服务的能力方面将如何变化。 会议将包括：超越气候变化和物种反应的传统模型;在气候变化/物种相互作用研究中被忽视的问题;前进的道路：概念;和前进的道路：方法。 将在一本编辑的书和白色纸中对发言和讨论进行总结。减轻气候变化对生态社区及其提供的生态系统服务的负面影响，需要在基础科学和战略方面取得进展，以指导未来的努力。 除了促进生态学家和进化生物学家对气候变化影响的不同工作的关键网络，会议和书将为建立和学生生态学家，政策专家和自然资源管理人员提供材料，对气候变化造成的环境和社会问题提出创造性和有效的解决方案。

This award will support a two-day conference on climate change and species interactions. Changing climatic conditions threaten some species with declines and extinctions, can induce pests and pathogens to spread, and can disrupt local communities of interacting species. These changes present major challenges for ecologists, including: (1) predicting how individual species will change in their traits, abundance, and distribution; (2) understanding how communities of interacting species will change in their structure and function; and (3) forecasting how the anticipated changes in these species and communities will influence their abilities to provide ecosystem services such as air and water filtration, carbon sequestration, erosion prevention, and protection against disease. Scientists need new models, experimental approaches, and statistical tools to address these challenges, and specifically to project where individual species will move, how species will evolve, how entire ecological communities will change, and how those species and communities will change in their abilities to perform ecosystem services. Conference sessions will include: Beyond traditional models of climate change and species responses; Neglected issues in climate change/species interactions research; Ways forward: Concepts; and Ways forward: Approaches. Presentations and discussions will be summarized in an edited book and white paper.Mitigating the negative effects of climate change on ecological communities and the ecosystem services they provide requires advances in basic science and strategies to guide future efforts. In addition to fostering critical networking of a diverse set of ecologists and evolutionary biologists working on impacts of climate change, the conference and book will provide the materials for both established and student ecologists, policy experts, and natural resource managers to pose creative and effective solutions to the environmental and societal problems caused by climate change.