Workshop: Activities supporting the international Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Scenarios Network; March 6-10, 2016, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland

该奖项为三个研讨会提供支持，使美国科学家能够参与国际“贝尔蒙特论坛生物多样性和生态系统服务情景网络”，即ScenNet。该网络目前包括九个国家（澳大利亚、巴西、中国、法国、德国、印度、日本、挪威、南非）。ScenNet的核心目标是加强从事生物多样性科学、生物多样性健康和生态系统服务未来情景研究的国内外研究人员之间的联系。一个特别的重点是将国际生物多样性研究的最佳成果纳入国际生物多样性评估和政策研究需求。目前，世界范围内的生态系统和生物多样性正在发生快速变化。预计的物种再分配及其相关的生态功能和服务跨越国界，并且可靠地量化影响并帮助确定减轻这些影响的优先行动将需要国际研究合作。最近成立了两个重要的研究和科学政策平台，即生物多样性和生态系统服务政府间平台（IPBES）和未来地球，以解决这些正在进行的转变的规模和潜在影响。ScenNet小组和该奖项支持的活动是与参与IPBES和未来地球工作的科学家合作完成的。该项目支持研讨会涉及来自广泛学科的研究人员，涵盖生物多样性情景的各个方面，包括全球变化对生物多样性和生态系统服务影响的建模，考虑生物多样性和生态系统服务的社会经济发展情景，以及生物多样性和生态系统服务变化对决策的反馈。这项工作包括与美国国家科学基金会生命谱系（GoLife）项目的整合。研讨会将讨论通过结合全球、物种层面的观点和数据（如NSF GoLife项目所提出的）以及以ScenNet/Belmont社区为代表的通常更具空间性、以组合为重点的生物多样性情景评估方法而产生的关键机会。研讨会将汇集两个社区的代表，讨论数字平台上综合产品和可视化的潜力，随后讨论综合建模机会和公民科学信息的使用。

This award provides support for three workshops enabling participation by US scientists in the international "Belmont Forum Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Scenarios Network", known as ScenNet. This network currently includes nine countries (Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Norway, South Africa). The core goals of ScenNet are to strengthen ties between researchers working nationally and internationally on future scenarios of biodiversity science, biodiversity health and ecosystem services. A particular focus is to make the best in international biodiversity research count in international biodiversity assessment and policy research needs. Ecosystems and biodiversity worldwide are currently undergoing rapid change. The projected redistribution of species and their associated ecological functions and services crosses national boundaries, and to reliably quantify impacts and help prioritize actions to mitigate them will require international research collaborations. Two important research and science-policy platforms, the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and Future Earth have recently been formed to address the magnitude and potential effects of these ongoing transformations. The ScenNet group and activities supported by this award are being done collaboratively with scientists participating in the IPBES and Future Earth efforts. This project supporting workshops involves researchers from a wide range of disciplines covering all aspects of biodiversity scenarios including modeling of impacts of global change on biodiversity and ecosystem services, scenarios of socio-economic development that take into account biodiversity and ecosystem services, and feedbacks of changes in biodiversity and ecosystem services on decision making. This effort includes integration with US NSF Genealogy of Life (GoLife) projects. Workshops will address key opportunities that arise through the combination of global, species level perspectives and data (as advanced by the NSF GoLife projects) and the usually more spatial, assemblage-focused approach of biodiversity scenario assessment as represented by the ScenNet/Belmont community. The workshops will bring together representatives from both communities to discuss the potential for integrative products and visualizations on digital platforms, followed by integrative modeling opportunities and the use of citizen science information.