Meeting: The Third Symposium on Urbanization and Stream Ecology (SUSE3)

人类社会依赖健康的淡水生态系统提供的许多服务，包括改善水质、生产渔业、美观设施和洪水管理等。在城市和郊区，这些服务往往因污染、渠道改变和其他人为影响而受损。这些损害的原因和后果尚不清楚，特别是在对生态系统功能的反馈方面。第三届城市化与河流生态学研讨会将汇集来自世界各地的生态学家和其他科学家，以促进我们对城市河流的基本认识，并开发将这种认识应用于改善淡水资源管理的方法。第三次会议（SUSE3）的重点是提高我们对城市化对河流影响的机制理解，特别是这些机制如何因气候、民用基础设施、历史土地利用和自然生态系统特征的差异而在全球范围内变化。与会者将报告最近的研究，并参加一系列有针对性的讨论，旨在综合这些知识并指导未来的研究。对机制的更好理解将有助于管理者和社区确定恢复和保护河流生态系统的最有效和最经济的方法。为了促进科学研究转化为管理行动，主办方将建立一个网络平台，交流本次研讨会的研究成果和未来的城市流研究。SUSE3会议还将包括一个专门讨论科学传播的培训课程，以提高科学家与广泛受众交流的能力。其目标是提高科学信息的传播速度，加强研究人员与城市河流管理者、决策者和一般公众之间的交流途径，从而改善城市淡水生态系统的生态条件，并确保它们继续提供社会重视的服务。

Human societies rely on many services provided by healthy freshwater ecosystems, including improved water quality, productive fisheries, aesthetic amenities and flood management, amongst others. In urban and suburban areas, these services are often impaired due to contamination, channel alteration and other human impacts. The causes and consequences of these impairments are not well known, particularly in the context of feedbacks on ecosystem function. The Third Symposium on Urbanization and Stream Ecology will bring together ecologists and other scientists from around the world to advance our basic understanding of urban streams, and develop approaches to apply this understanding to improving management of freshwater resources. This third meeting (SUSE3) focuses on improving our mechanistic understanding of impacts of urbanization on streams, and in particular how these mechanisms vary around the globe due to differences in climate, civil infrastructure, historical land use, and natural ecosystem characteristics. Participants will report on recent research and take part in a series of targeted discussions aimed at synthesizing this knowledge and guiding future research. An improved mechanistic understanding will help managers and communities identify the most effective and economically efficient methods for restoring and protecting stream ecosystems. To facilitate the translation of scientific research into management action, the organizers will establish a web-based platform to communicate the research results of this symposium and future urban stream studies. The SUSE3 meeting will also include a training session devoted to scientific communication to improve the ability of scientists to communicate with broad audiences. The goal is to increase the rate of dissemination of scientific information and enhance pathways of communication between researchers and urban stream managers, policy makers and the general public, thereby improving the ecological condition of urban freshwater ecosystems and ensuring that they continue to provide services valued by society.