Meeting: The world is not flat: Accounting for the dynamic nature of the environment as we move beyond static experimental manipulations - January 3-7, 2019, Tampa, FL

动物生活的世界不断变化，需要对温度、食物供应或潮汐周期等环境变量的可预测变化做出反应。虽然对环境变异性的生理反应被广泛承认，但研究往往以试图最大限度地减少这种变异性的方式进行。然而，为了充分了解生物体与其环境的相互作用，需要采取研究方法，探索自然变化或在更自然的环境制度下进行的实验（例如每日和每年的温度波动）如何影响生理机制和对这种变化的反应。最近，一些研究人员已经把他们的重点转向试图将环境变化纳入生理学和行为的研究。 毫不奇怪，这些研究发现，包括环境变化的研究结果与不包括环境变化的研究结果有很大不同。本次研讨会的目的是强调当研究考虑到这些通常是戏剧性的变化时所获得的重要见解，并促进未来的研究，以更好地了解动物，包括许多经济上重要的物种，如何科普不断变化的环境。该研讨会旨在汇集跨分类群和生态系统工作的研究人员。本次研讨会将包括从研究生到全职教授的各种职业阶段的研究人员，所有演讲者将在综合和比较生物学的特刊中传播这些发现。几乎所有的动物都经历了戏剧性的，往往是可预测的，在他们的环境中，需要在个人的生理和行为的反应变化的变化。然而，许多旨在了解对感兴趣的环境或生理变量的进化和生态反应的研究试图控制和最大限度地减少变异。一些例子包括在孵化期间在持续温度下孵化具有环境性别决定的物种的卵，或旨在长时间保持相对恒定的循环水平的激素植入。无论是在实验室还是在野外进行，这些研究都提供了关于影响生理和行为的机械关系的关键信息，这些关系反过来又影响个体适应性的变化，尽管提供的关于环境变化的直接影响的信息有限。理解动物为什么以及如何科普环境变化是认识到导致选择作用的变异的来源和随后的反应的关键。本次研讨会借鉴了比较生理学中长期存在的问题（例如，动物如何科普环境的变化？），而是从现代的角度来探讨这些问题。这群发言者代表了不同的科学家群体。除了主要的专题讨论会，一个贡献会议将广告，将专门针对学生学员，并将努力通过诸如促进墨西哥裔/西班牙裔和美洲原住民科学协会（SACNAS）等组织的公告来接触代表性不足的群体该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响进行评估，被认为值得支持审查标准。

The world that animals live in is constantly changing, requiring responses to predictable changes in environmental variables such as temperature, food availability or tidal cycles. While physiological responses to environmental variability are widely acknowledged, research is often conducted in a manner that attempts to minimize that variability. It is becoming evident however that to fully understand an organism's interaction with its environment, research approaches are needed that explore how natural variation or experiments conducted under more natural environmental regimes (e.g. daily and annual fluctuations in temperature) affects physiological mechanisms and responses to this variation. Recently, a number of investigators have turned their focus towards attempting to incorporate environmental variation into studies of physiology and behavior. Not surprisingly these studies are finding that the results from studies that include environmental variation differ substantially from those that do not. The goal of this symposium is to highlight important insights that are gained when studies take into account these, often dramatic, changes and to stimulate future research that is needed to better understand how animals, including many economically important species, may cope with changing environments. The symposium is designed to bring together researchers working across taxa and ecosystems. This symposium will include a diverse range of researchers that span career stages from graduate student to full professor, and all speakers will disseminate these findings in a special issue of Integrative and Comparative Biology. Nearly all animals experience dramatic, often predictable, changes in their environment that requires responsive changes in an individual's physiology and behavior. Yet many studies aimed at understanding evolutionary and ecological responses to an environmental or physiological variable of interest seek to control and minimize variation. Some examples include the incubation of eggs in species with environmental sex determination under continuous temperatures through the duration of incubation, or hormone implants aimed at maintaining relatively constant circulating levels for an extended period of time. Whether conducted in the laboratory or the field, these studies have provided critical information about the mechanistic relationships that influence physiology and behavior that, in turn, influence variation in individual fitness, despite providing limited information on the direct effects of environmental variation. Understanding why and how animals cope with environmental changes is key to recognizing the sources and subsequent responses that give rise to the variation that selection can act upon. This symposium draws on longstanding questions in comparative physiology (e.g., how do animals cope with environmental variability?), but approaches those questions from a modern perspective. The group of speakers represent a diverse group of scientists. In addition to the main symposium, a contributed session will be advertised that will specifically target student trainees, and efforts will be made to reach out to underrepresented groups through announcements in organizations such as the Society for Advancing Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.