Meeting: SICB 2016 Parasites and Pests in Motion: Biology, Biodiversity and Climate Change, Portland, Oregon, 3-7 January 2016

随着时间的推移，与全球温度相关的环境变化可能会加速，并影响物种在地球上的分布。因此，物种可能会面临新的敌人，包括寄生虫、病原体和捕食者。其中一些敌人对人类特别感兴趣，因为它们作为有害生物大量存在，对商业和生态产生影响。生态学家越来越强调捕食者和寄生虫在控制宿主种群和为生态系统提供其他重要服务方面的重要性。因此，了解气候变化如何影响寄生虫和宿主之间的关系具有广泛的意义。这项研究将对国家重要问题产生直接影响，包括：医学（人类寄生虫、疾病媒介）、兽医科学（宠物寄生虫、牲畜寄生虫）以及食品安全和生物安全（农业、水产养殖、牲畜中的寄生虫、病原体和害虫）。随着越来越多的植物和动物出现在新地方的报道，研究它们对这些地方的潜在影响是及时的。这次研讨会将提供这样一个检验。研讨会的目的是将研究各种天敌的研究人员聚集在一起，就全球变化（如变暖、海平面上升、海洋酸化、降水变化）如何改变害虫、寄生虫和宿主物种的分布和相互作用交换知识。大多数以前的工作都忽略了全球变化对物种之间相互作用的影响，这些物种以前没有遇到过彼此。演讲者在职业发展（从博士生到高级研究人员）和多样性（女性和传统上代表性不足的群体）方面具有多样性。研讨会将包括研究陆地、海洋和淡水生态系统中寄生虫和害虫的研究人员。本次研讨会的一个重要成果将是编辑一卷，并为准确建模和预测由病原体、寄生虫和宿主分布共同发生的变化所产生的生态影响奠定广泛的新基础。

Environmental changes related to global temperature may accelerate over time and impact where species occur on the earth. As a result, species may become exposed to new enemies, including parasites, pathogens, and predators. Some of these enemies are of particular interest to humans because they occur in large numbers as pests with commercial and ecological impacts. Ecologists have increasingly stressed the importance of predators and parasites in keeping host populations in check and providing other vital services in ecosystems. Thus, understanding how changing climate impacts the relationship between parasites and hosts has broad implications. This research will have direct consequences on issues of national importance, including: medicine (parasites of humans, disease vectors), veterinary science (parasites of pets, livestock), and food safety and biosecurity (parasites, pathogens and pests in agriculture, aquaculture, livestock). With increasingly numerous reports of plants and animals appearing in new places, it is timely to examine their potential impacts in those places. This symposium will provide such an examination. The objective of the symposium is to bring together researchers working on a wide variety of natural enemies to exchange knowledge on how aspects of global change (e.g., warming, sea level rise, ocean acidification, altered precipitation) may alter the distribution and interactions of pests, parasites, and host species. Most previous work has overlooked impacts of global change on interactions between species that have not previously encountered one another. Speakers are diverse in terms of career development (doctoral students to senior researchers) and diversity (women and traditionally underrepresented groups). The symposium will include researchers working on parasites and pests in terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecosystems. An important outcome of this symposium will be an edited volume and a broad, new foundation for accurately modeling and predicting ecological impacts resulting from co-occurring shifts in the distributions of pathogens, parasites, and hosts.