Everything Disperses to Miami: The Role of Movement and Dispersal in Ecology, Epidemiology and Environmental Science

一切都分散到迈阿密：运动和分散在生态学、流行病学和环境科学中的作用

• 批准号: 1205909
• 负责人: Robert Cantrell
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: University of Miami
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-15 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1205909&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Everything; Disperses; Miami; Role; Movement

CantrellDMS-1205909 The investigators organize a meeting entitled "Everything Disperses to Miami: The Role of Movement and Dispersal in Spatial Ecology, Epidemiology, and Environmental Science" at the University of Miami in December 2012. The investigators invite seven leading experts to give plenary talks highlighting emerging mathematical and applied aspects of movement and dispersal in ecology, epidemiology, and environmental science, augmented by special sessions on the evolution of dispersal, epidemiology through the lens of ecology, non-local dispersal in ecology and epidemiology, the impact of global change in ecology and epidemiology, recent advances in nonlinear analysis and partial differential equations arising from models of dispersal, and recent synergies between state-of-the art empirical and theoretical advances in the study of dispersal. The meeting culminates with a panel discussion of new directions of research at the interface of mathematics and biology on the role of dispersal in ecology, epidemiology, and environmental science. The special sessions include a mix of junior and senior investigators as a means of encouraging the upcoming generation of new researchers to focus on issues related to movement and dispersal in ecology, epidemiology, and environmental science. The scientific outcome of the meeting is the basis for a special issue of the journal Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B, edited by the conference organizers, which will include an essay by the organizers giving an overview of the meeting, including most particularly the key emerging challenges identified in the panel discussion. The investigators organize a meeting entitled "Everything Disperses to Miami: The Role of Movement and Dispersal in Spatial Ecology, Epidemiology, and Environmental Science" (EDM) to promote research on the role of movement and dispersal in mathematical modeling in ecology, epidemiology, and environmental science, to further intellectual synthesis and integration therein, and to influence the direction of future investigation in these fields and by extension mathematical biology at large. Due to the range and complexity of the potential effects of dispersal, mathematical modeling is essential to the understanding of these effects. Movement and dispersal have long been recognized as crucial features of ecological systems. They influence the persistence and interactions of populations and drive range expansions, biological invasions, and colonization of empty habitats. More recently, as epidemiology has become increasingly understood through the lens of ecology, they have also come to occupy a central place in epidemiological modeling. Consequently, understanding movement and dispersal is indispensable for effective decision-making on numerous significant policy issues related to ecology, epidemiology, and environmental science, such as the conservation of biodiversity as habitats are altered by environmental change, the evaluation of risks of biological invasions by exotic or genetically modified organisms, the impact of human movement on vector-borne diseases, the effect of global movement in communicable diseases, and the development of strategies for controlling pests and disease vectors. The meeting brings together experts and young scientists to enhance the capacity of science to address these important questions.

Cantrell DMS-1205909 研究人员于2012年12月在迈阿密大学组织了一次题为“一切都分散到迈阿密：运动和分散在空间生态学、流行病学和环境科学中的作用”的会议。 研究人员邀请七位领先的专家进行全体会议，重点介绍生态学，流行病学和环境科学中运动和扩散的新兴数学和应用方面，通过生态学的透镜，生态学和流行病学中的非局部扩散，全球变化对生态学和流行病学的影响，非线性分析和偏微分方程扩散模型的最新进展，以及扩散研究中最先进的经验和理论进展之间的最新协同作用。 会议的高潮是一个小组讨论的新方向的研究在数学和生物学的界面上的扩散在生态学，流行病学和环境科学的作用。 特别会议包括初级和高级研究人员的混合，作为鼓励下一代新研究人员专注于生态学，流行病学和环境科学中与运动和扩散有关的问题的一种手段。 会议的科学成果是会议组织者编辑的《离散和连续动力系统-系列B》杂志特刊的基础，其中将包括组织者概述会议的一篇文章，特别包括小组讨论中确定的新出现的关键挑战。 调查人员组织了一次会议，题为“一切都分散到迈阿密：运动和扩散在空间生态学，流行病学和环境科学中的作用”（EDM），以促进对运动和扩散在生态学，流行病学和环境科学数学建模中的作用的研究，以促进其中的智力综合和整合，并影响这些领域的未来研究方向，进而影响整个数学生物学。 由于扩散的潜在影响的范围和复杂性，数学建模对于理解这些影响至关重要。 迁移和扩散一直被认为是生态系统的重要特征。 它们影响种群的持久性和相互作用，并驱动范围扩张，生物入侵和空栖息地的殖民化。 最近，随着人们越来越多地从生态学的透镜来理解流行病学，它们也在流行病学建模中占据了中心地位。 因此，了解迁移和扩散对于就与生态学、流行病学和环境科学有关的许多重大政策问题作出有效决策是必不可少的，这些问题包括：在生境因环境变化而改变的情况下保护生物多样性;评估外来或转基因生物入侵的风险;人类迁移对病媒传播疾病的影响;传染病全球传播的影响，以及制定控制害虫和病媒的战略。 这次会议汇集了专家和青年科学家，以提高科学解决这些重要问题的能力。