Scaling Up: Joint Workshops on Continental-Scale Population and Community Ecology and Education

扩大规模：大陆规模人口和社区生态与教育联合研讨会

• 批准号: 1241327
• 负责人: Clifford Duke
• 金额: $ 17.03万
• 依托单位: Ecological Society of America
• 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 2017-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1241327&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scaling; Up; Joint; Workshops; Continental

Opportunities to address new scientific questions at continental scales have been growing enormously over the past decade or so, as new networks and knowledgebases are developed and deployed at a rapid rate. While ecosystem ecologists are used to addressing questions on such scales (productivity of biomes, global nitrogen cycles), population and community ecologists have less experience working at these spatial scales. The award provides funds to support two joint, co-occurring workshops, one for early-career population and community ecologists to develop research plans for continental scale questions on population and community ecology, and the other for undergraduate students to explore ways to apply continental and regional scale knowledgebases and tools to environmental policy issues. The proposed workshops would bring large scale data and analytical tools to the attention of young career scientists and undergraduates in population and community ecology. Practitioners at landscape and ecosystem levels are more comfortable with these tools, but population and community ecologists need to be encourages to explore questions at larger scales than plots and transects. The award will enable a broader movement in ecology towards the use of networks, global knowledgebases and distributed public data. The workshops will provide training, ideas, and collaborative network for students and early career scientists who wish to 'scale-up' in the questions addressed in community and population ecology.

在过去十年左右的时间里，随着新的网络和知识库的迅速发展和部署，在大陆范围内解决新的科学问题的机会大大增加。虽然生态系统生态学家习惯于解决这些尺度上的问题（生物群落的生产力，全球氮循环），但人口和社区生态学家在这些空间尺度上的工作经验较少。该奖项提供资金，以支持两个联合，共同发生的研讨会，一个为早期职业人口和社区生态学家制定人口和社区生态学大陆规模问题的研究计划，另一个为本科生探索如何将大陆和区域规模的知识库和工具应用于环境政策问题。拟议的讲习班将使人口和社区生态学领域的青年职业科学家和大学生注意到大规模数据和分析工具。 景观和生态系统层面的从业者更喜欢使用这些工具，但需要鼓励人口和社区生态学家在比地块和横断面更大的尺度上探索问题。该奖项将使生态学更广泛地走向使用网络、全球知识库和分布式公共数据。研讨会将为希望在社区和人口生态学中解决问题的学生和早期职业科学家提供培训，想法和合作网络。