Workshop: RoL:FELS: Invasion Biology Rules of Life; March 25-28, 2019, West Greenwich, Rhode Island

全球化的一个主要产物是非本地物种的引进和传播，其中许多物种减少了生物多样性，或对我们的经济、农业和人类健康造成重大损害。该研讨会将汇集来自数据科学和生物学不同领域的科学家，以建立对生物体生物学与当地生态条件相结合的“规则”的综合理解，以允许入侵物种扩大其范围并影响生态系统功能。参与者拥有各种生物和生态系统的专业知识，包括生活在陆地，淡水和海洋环境中的植物，动物和微生物。研讨会的目标是开发新的跨学科方法和观点，加强我们对入侵物种影响的理解，以及这些影响如何在不同地点之间变化。这些见解将填补地方、州和国家层面与预防和管理入侵物种有关的关键知识空白。研究结果将通过科学出版物、新闻媒体以及与国家入侵物种理事会的直接互动进行分享。这次关于生命入侵生物学规则的研讨会将整合不同的研究方法，以提高对入侵传播和影响的科学理解。主要目标是改进（1）在更高分辨率的空间和时间尺度上预测非本地物种的建立和入侵对本地物种和生态过程的影响，以及（2）将公民和科学家的入侵观察结果纳入更详细的数据库的方法，这些数据库不仅可以描述非本地物种的出现，而且还可以描述影响。这两个目标将导致更有效地预测和管理入侵的影响和更好的政策，以支持这些目标。与会者将把基于生理和其他特征的入侵扩散机制模型与基于地理结构化环境数据的各种统计处理的物种分布模型联系起来。然后，他们将评估关联模型是否能在与管理相关的尺度上更好地预测入侵影响，并指导研究人员更好地理解为什么特定入侵者的影响在空间和时间上差异很大。此外，本发明还提供了一种方法，该研讨会将评估如何最好地将从广泛来源收集的入侵物种数据汇集和使用到综合数据库中，以帮助研究入侵过程和影响，并帮助管理者和决策者有效地应对潜在和实际的入侵。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过利用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响进行评估来支持审查标准。

A principal product of globalization is the introduction and spread of non-native species, with many of these species reducing biodiversity or imposing substantial harm to our economy, agriculture, and human health. This workshop will bring together scientists from data science and diverse areas of biology to build an integrated understanding of the "rules" by which organismal biology combines with local ecological conditions to allow invasive species to expand their range and impact ecosystem function. Participants have expertise across a wide variety of organisms and ecosystems, including plants, animals, and microbes living in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments. The goal of the workshop is to develop novel interdisciplinary approaches and perspectives that strengthen our understanding of invasive species impacts and how these impacts vary across locations. Such insights will fill critical knowledge gaps related to preventing and managing invasive species at the local, state, and national levels. The results will be shared through scientific publications, news media, and direct interactions with the National Invasive Species Council. This workshop on the invasion biology rules of life will integrate largely distinct research approaches to enhance scientific understanding of invasion spread and impacts. Key objectives are to improve (1) prediction of both establishment of a non-native species and invasion impacts on native species and ecological processes, at more highly resolved spatial and temporal scales and (2) methods of integrating invasion observations from citizens and scientists into more highly detailed databases that, in turn, can depict not only occurrences of non-native species but also impacts. Both objectives will lead to more effective prediction and management of invasion impacts and better policies to support these goals. Participants will link mechanistic models of invasion spread, based on physiological and other traits, to species distribution models based on various statistical treatments of geographically structured environmental data. They will then assess whether the linked models produce better predictions of invasion impacts at scales relevant to management and direct researchers toward better understanding of why impacts of particular invaders vary greatly across space and time. In addition, the workshop will evaluate how best to assemble and use invasive species data gathered from a wide range of sources into integrated databases that aid research on invasion processes and impacts and assist managers and policymakers in efficiently responding to potential and actual invasions.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.