RoL:FELS: Workshop: Reciprocal illumination between ecology and biomechanics: evolution, integration, and constraint, March 2019, Portland, Oregon

为了生存，动物必须在它们的环境条件下执行任务，而这些条件在地球上正在迅速变化。反过来，动物的功能是约束、可塑性、适应和其他过程的产物。约束可以是生态的、进化的、发展的或生物力学的。因此，理解与动物功能相关的复杂表型需要一种综合方法。为了实现这一目标，研讨会将汇集一些领域，从专注于基因组学和进化生态学的生物学家到生物力学家。这个研讨会属于生命的规则，因为它探讨了复杂的表型如何应对生态变化，导致塑料和进化的反应。这是如何发生的，对于确定动物和植物在未来几年是否/如何生存至关重要。本次研讨会的成果将与广大受众（包括公众）分享。研讨会的主题将突出为高年级（8 - 12）的主要讨论主题。总的来说，"事物如何运作和为什么"的主题对年轻人来说是有趣的。 该研讨会旨在激发好奇心，使未来的STEM学者和专业人士出现。对多元化参与者小组的关注将确保科学界为该领域的未来赋能，选择当前和未来的领导者，为来自科学领域代表性不足群体的学生树立榜样。因此，参与者是多样的。探索复杂表型的起源和分支一直是进化生物学家的目标。然而，这一探索的一个主要差距是结合生物力学相关信息来理解复杂的特征。尽管功能介导的性状可能对生存至关重要。形态特征已被用作生物力学特征的替代物，但这经常被证明是不够的。此外，生态变量是了解生物在其环境中如何发挥作用的关键。 这反过来又是理解进化过程的关键。要充分理解复杂性状，需要整合生态学、生物力学和进化。就动物功能而言，整合是持久的，对于成功执行任务至关重要。这与生态学的关系目前尚不清楚。该研讨会将汇集生物力学家，功能形态学家，进化生物学家和生态学家，以产生一个生态力学的范例，这将是未来研究的基础，将揭示有关复杂表型的关键信息。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

To survive, animals must perform tasks within the context of their environmental conditions, and these conditions are rapidly changing across earth. Animal function is, in turn, a product of constraint, plasticity, adaptation, and other processes. Constraints can be ecological, evolutionary, developmental, or biomechanical. Thus, understanding complex phenotypes related to animal function requires an integrative approach. To accomplish this, the workshop will bring together a number of fields, from biologists focused on genomics and evolutionary ecology, to biomechanists. This workshop falls under the Rules of Life as it explores how complex phenotypes respond to ecological shifts, resulting in plastic and evolutionary responses. How this occurs is critical for determining if/how animals and plants will survive over the coming years. The results of this workshop will be shared with a broad audience (including the general public). The topic of the workshop will be highlighted as a main discussion topic for upper grades (8-12). In general, the theme of "How Things Work and Why" is interesting to young people. The workshop seeks to stimulate curiosity so that future STEM scholars and professionals emerge. The focus on a diverse panel of participants will ensure that the scientific community is empowering the future of the field, selecting current and future leaders that will serve as role models for students from underrepresented groups in the sciences. In light of this, the participants are diverse. The quest to understand the origin and ramifications of complex phenotypes has been a goal of evolutionary biologists for a considerable amount of time. However, a major gap in this quest is the incorporation of biomechanically relevant information to understand complex traits. This is despite the fact that functionally-mediated traits are likely critical for survival. Morphological traits have been used as proxies for biomechanical traits, but this has frequently been shown to be inadequate. In addition, ecological variables are key for understanding how organisms function in their environment. This, in turn, is key for understanding evolutionary processes. What is needed to fully understand complex traits is the integration of ecology, biomechanics, and evolution. In terms of animal function, integration is persistent and important for the successful execution of tasks. How this relates to ecology is currently unknown. This workshop will bring together biomechanists, functional morphologists, evolutionary biologists, and ecologists to generate a paradigm for ecomechanics that will be the foundation for future research that will uncover key information regarding complex phenotypes.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.