Fire ecology research priorities across space and time: support for the Future of Fire workshop; Colorado Chautauqua National Historic Landmark; November, 2017

火灾在塑造和管理生态系统方面发挥着重要作用。随着北美大片地区及更远地区发生的大规模、破坏性和看似新奇的火灾发生的速度加快，火灾在改变生态系统中的重要性重新引起了生态学家的科学关注。了解过去十年发生的火灾对生态学家和社会都提出了一系列紧迫的问题。尽管有大量研究人员从事火灾研究，但仍有必要统一研究生态变化和火灾机制的研究人员的方法。为这次讲习班提供资金，使研究人员能够在未来火灾讲习班期间用互补的方法重建生态系统。讲习班的具体目标是：(1)评估从人口到生态系统层面上火灾与生态过程相互作用的科学优先事项；(2)探索火灾科学作为基础科学研究的中心研究领域；以及(3)在以前以生态学为基础但与许多其他学科，如气象学、气候学、地球科学、地理学和水文学相互作用的火灾科学领域中，寻找相互协同的领域。四个重点领域是：大空间尺度的火灾，火灾实验，火灾模拟，以及过去的火灾状态和基线。火的未来研讨会将对社会和更大的科学界产生几个影响。讲习班的出版物和报告将通过科学学会通讯、出版物和网站广泛传播。研讨会将吸引不同知识的参与者参与职业生涯阶段，许多最初的参与者拥有博士后、助理教授或同等级别的职位。与会者将邀请政府机构和非政府组织提供有关火灾对生态系统过程的影响的信息。

Fires play an important role in shaping and managing ecosystems. The importance of fire in altering ecosystems is gaining renewed scientific attention of ecologists with the increased pace of large, destructive, and seemingly novel fires occurring across a large swath of North America and beyond. Understanding fires occurring in the past decade raise a set of urgent questions for both ecologists and society. Despite the large number of researchers working on fire, there is an ongoing need to unify the approach of researchers working on mechanisms of ecological change and fire. Funding for this workshop to bring together researchers with complementary approaches to reconstructing ecosystems during the Future of Fire workshop. The specific goals of the workshop are: (1) To assess scientific priorities regarding the interactions of fire with ecological processes from population to ecosystem levels, (2) To explore fire science as a central research area within basic science research, and (3) To find areas of synergy among previously separate areas of fire science based within the discipline of ecology but interacting with many other disciplines such as meteorology, climatology, Earth science, geography, and hydrology. The four focal areas are: fire at large spatial scales, fire experiments, modeling fire, and past fire regimes and baselines. The Future of Fire workshop will have several impacts on society and the larger scientific community. Publications and reports from the workshop will be disseminated broadly through scientific society newsletters, publications, and websites. The workshop will engage a diverse intellectual set of participants across career stage, with many initial participants holding the rank of postdoc, assistant professor, or the equivalent. Participants will engage government agencies and NGOs to provide information about the effects of fire on ecosystem processes.