Travel Grant to the 26th International Congress of Entomology and Post-Conference Synthesis Workshop; July 19-24, 2020; Helsinki, Finland

昆虫是地球上最多样化的生物群体之一，但它们似乎受到人类造成的环境干扰的威胁。我们必须了解这些环境变化如何影响昆虫物种之间的相互作用，特别是因为昆虫为人类提供了重要的服务（例如为我们的主要粮食作物授粉，分解死亡物质）。来自世界各地的科学家正在研究与环境变化如何影响昆虫有关的问题，他们将于2020年7月在芬兰赫尔辛基举行第26届国际昆虫学大会（也称为ICE会议）。研究人员正在ICE与研究环境变化如何影响昆虫食物网的科学家组织研讨会，并将为研究生和博士后提供旅行奖励，包括科学界代表性不足的群体。因此，该项目将有助于增加ICE会议上早期和中期职业科学家的多样性，从而确保在正在进行的关于全球变化如何影响自然生态系统的调查中代表各种观点。此外，该项目将促进科学界代表性不足群体的科学家的专业发展和合作机会。 全球环境变化似乎正在影响全世界的昆虫群落。昆虫群落形成食物网，与其他物种，包括捕食者的相互作用，极大地影响了这些物种。环境变化如何改变这些相互作用的选择强度尚不清楚。物种的相互作用驱动人口丰度和社区多样性，因此，了解全球变化对人口动态，生态社区，生物多样性和生态系统过程的影响需要一个多营养的角度来看。研讨会将深入了解昆虫食物网如何受到全球环境变化的影响。会议结束后，研究人员将召开一个研讨会，综合目前的理解，并提出解决方案，全球变化对昆虫的影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得支持的，通过评估使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

Insects are one of the most diverse groups of organisms on Earth, and yet they appear to be under threat from human-caused environmental disturbances. It is imperative that we understand how these environmental changes affect interactions between insect species, especially because insects provide essential services to humans (e.g. pollination of our major food crops, decomposition of dead matter). Scientists from around the world who are studying questions related to how environmental change affects insects will meet in Helsinki, Finland in July 2020 at the 26th International Congress of Entomology (also called the ICE meeting). The researchers are organizing a symposium at ICE with scientists who study how environmental change affects insect food webs and will provide travel awards to graduate students and post-docs, including underrepresented groups in science. Thus, this project will help to increase diversity of early- and mid-career scientists at the ICE meeting and will thus ensure that a diversity of views are represented in ongoing investigations into how global change affects natural ecosystems. Further, this project will facilitate the professional development and collaboration opportunities for scientists from underrepresented groups in science. Global environmental change appears to be affecting insect communities worldwide. Insect communities form food webs and interactions with other species, including predators, greatly affect those species. How the strength of selection from these interactions will be altered by environmental change is unknown. Species interactions drive population abundances and community diversity; thus, understanding the impacts of global change on population dynamics, ecological communities, biodiversity, and ecosystem processes requires a multi-trophic perspective. Insights will be gained into how insect food webs are affected by global environmental change from the symposium. After the meeting, the researchers will convene a workshop to synthesize the current understanding and propose solutions for the impact of global change on insects.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.