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

火灾在形成和管理生态系统方面发挥着重要作用。火灾在改变生态系统方面的重要性正重新引起生态学家的科学关注，因为在北美及其他地区发生的大型、破坏性的、看似新颖的火灾的速度越来越快。了解过去十年发生的火灾为生态学家和社会提出了一系列紧迫的问题。尽管有大量的研究人员从事火灾研究，但目前还需要统一研究生态变化与火灾机制的研究方法。为本次研讨会提供资金，以便在未来火灾研讨会期间将研究人员聚集在一起，采用互补的方法重建生态系统。研讨会的具体目标是：(1)评估火灾与从人口到生态系统水平的生态过程相互作用的科学优先级；(2)探索火灾科学作为基础科学研究的中心研究领域；(3)在以前独立的火灾科学领域之间寻找协同领域，这些领域基于生态学，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。四个重点领域是：大空间尺度的火灾、火灾实验、火灾模型和过去的火灾制度和基线。火的未来研讨会将对社会和更大的科学界产生几个影响。研讨会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。研讨会将吸引不同职业阶段的知识分子参与，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。与会者将与政府机构和非政府组织合作，提供有关火灾对生态系统过程影响的信息。

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.