Conference: The Multiple Dimensions of Biodiversity Science; Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 26-30, 2015

理解和预测生物多样性的空间格局以及时空转换对于理解生态学和进化之间的相互作用至关重要。尽管广泛的综合性研究计划的吸引力，生物多样性科学的进步一直受到生物学内的这些领域的隔离，以及生物学和地质学和气候科学等相关领域之间的限制。本次研讨会旨在确定和传播新的方法，以克服通过研究，教学和推广有效地统一地球科学，进化和生态学领域的挑战。参与者将包括研究生，博士后和与美国NSF生物多样性维度计划相关的主要研究人员，以及来自巴西和中国的合作伙伴资助机构。这次会议将提供一个独特的机会，传播新的和有前途的生物多样性研究的综合方法，集思广益，讨论教育和培训下一代综合科学家的最佳战略。这项研究是高度优先发展可行的方法，以保护和可持续发展的新热带地区，可应用于不同的地理区域。这笔资金将支持来自不同背景的美国研究生和博士后的参与，他们正在进行生物多样性研究综合方法的前沿研究，以及四名参与或对类似主题感兴趣的本科少数民族学生。所有得奖学生将出席研讨会，并获邀积极参与研讨会的讨论和出版研讨会的联合刊物。研讨会将向与会者宣传学生海报，以提高他们的出席率。海报会议将利用我们演讲者的科学网络，促进来自南美洲和其他大陆的与会者之间的新联系和合作，从而促进各国之间新的科学联系。巴西的地方推广工作将以新的综合研究为特色，这些研究要么侧重于或涵盖热带生物多样性，要么制定可随时应用于这些地区的新框架。

Understanding and predicting spatial patterns of biodiversity and turnover in space and time is central to understanding the interplay between ecology and evolution. Despite the appeal of broadly integrative research programs, advances in biodiversity science have been constrained by the isolation of these fields within biology, as well as between biology and related fields such as geology and climate science. This symposium seeks to identify and broadcast new ways to overcome the challenge of effectively uniting the fields of earth sciences, evolution and ecology through research, teaching, and outreach. Participants will include graduate students, postdocs, and principle investigators associated with the NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity program from the US, and from partner funding agencies in Brazil and China. This meeting will provide a unique opportunity to disseminate new and promising integrative approaches to biodiversity studies, and to brainstorm and discuss the best strategies to educate and train the next generation of integrative scientists. This research is of high priority for developing viable approaches to conservation and sustainability in the neotropics that can be applied in diverse geographic regions. This funding will support the participation of US-based graduate students and postdocs from diverse backgrounds who are conducting cutting-edge research in integrative approaches to biodiversity studies, as well as four undergraduate minority students involved with or interested in similar topics. All student awardees will attend the symposium and be invited to actively participate in the symposium discussions and a joint publication emerging from it. Student posters will be advertised to the symposium audience to maximize their attendance. The poster session will use the scientific networks of our speakers to foster new connections and collaborations between attendees from South America and those from other continents, thereby fostering new scientific links across countries. Local outreach efforts in Brazil will feature new integrative studies that either focus on or encompass tropical biotas, or that develop novel frameworks that can be readily applied to these regions.