BEE: IMEMEBA Workshop: Insights from Macro-Ecology and Macro-Evolution for Biodiversity Assessment

BEE：IMEMEBA 研讨会：宏观生态学和宏观进化对生物多样性评估的见解

• 批准号: 2135502
• 负责人: Rosemary Gillespie
• 金额: $ 9.89万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2135502&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: BEE; IMEMEBA; Workshop; Insights; Macro

The Earth’s ecosystems are under serious threat due to ongoing stressors of the Anthropocene. Presently, we have no reliable way to assess the overall health of an ecosystem, and the biodiversity therein, let alone to identify thresholds of change beyond which a complex ecosystem cannot recover. Much needed are insights into how patterns of species diversity that we understand to emerge at small scales are propagated up to shape entire ecosystems: What are the drivers, and what aspects impart resilience to perturbations such as those from invasive species or climate change? Three rather disparate research areas have started to examine how large scale ecological and evolutionary patterns emerge through time, notably in the context of fossils, where changes in communities can be studied through the geological record; remote archipelagoes in which different ages of component islands can be used as snapshots of community composition through geological time; and microbial systems, where large scale patterns emerge relatively quickly. This project brings researchers from these different disciplines together, along with others who are developing theory focused on emergent patterns that can apply to any or all of these systems. The primary goal is to identify commonalities across systems and build a unified theory that describes large scale patterns of ecosystems and attributes that promote resiliency to change. The outcomes will have broad societal impact for understanding ecosystem response to changing climate. In addition, the workshop will contribute to the training and scholarly advancement of diverse early career investigators.The project has three organizers and an additional six core participants. There will be a preliminary planning workshop held for the core participants. This small workshop will be short and focused, based at Blue Oak Field Station, California in Fall 2021, and geared towards expanding on concepts at the intersection of the different disciplines and planning for the main workshop. The primary workshop will be held at Schoodic, Maine and will be longer, larger, and more integrative, tentatively scheduled for June 7-13, 2022. For the main workshop the organizers have identified 30 key participants who are active in developing insights into large scale ecological and evolutionary properties within each of the fields of paleoecology, island community ecology, and microbial systems, as well as researchers who are developing theory at the intersection of these disciplines. Participants have been targeted with an eye to gender equality and diversity of career stages. For the primary workshop, eight slots have been reserved for applications from graduate students and early career scientists.This workshop was funded through the Bridging Ecology and Evolution category in the Biological Sciences Directorate, Division of Environmental Biology.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.

由于人类世持续的压力，地球的生态系统受到严重威胁。目前，我们没有可靠的方法来评估生态系统的整体健康状况，以及其中的生物多样性，更不用说确定一个复杂的生态系统无法恢复的变化阈值。迫切需要深入了解我们所了解的在小规模上出现的物种多样性模式如何传播以塑造整个生态系统：驱动因素是什么，哪些方面赋予了对入侵物种或气候变化等扰动的适应力？三个相当不同的研究领域已经开始研究大规模的生态和进化模式是如何随着时间的推移而出现的，特别是在化石的背景下，可以通过地质记录来研究群落的变化;偏远的群岛，其中不同年龄的组成岛屿可以作为地质时期群落组成的快照;和微生物系统，大规模的模式出现得相对较快。这个项目将来自这些不同学科的研究人员聚集在一起，沿着其他人正在开发理论，专注于可以应用于任何或所有这些系统的涌现模式。主要目标是确定系统之间的共性，并建立一个统一的理论，描述大规模的生态系统模式和属性，促进弹性变化。这些成果将对理解生态系统对气候变化的反应产生广泛的社会影响。此外，讲习班将有助于培训和学术进步的各种早期职业调查。该项目有三个组织者和另外六个核心参与者。将为核心参与者举办一次初步规划讲习班。这个小型研讨会将简短而集中，于2021年秋季在加州的蓝橡树野外站举行，旨在扩大不同学科交叉点的概念，并规划主要研讨会。主要研讨会将在缅因州的Schoodic举行，时间更长，规模更大，更具综合性，暂定为2022年6月7日至13日。对于主要研讨会，组织者已经确定了30名主要参与者，他们积极参与古生态学，岛屿社区生态学和微生物系统领域内的大规模生态和进化特性的深入研究，以及在这些学科交叉点发展理论的研究人员。培训对象着眼于两性平等和职业阶段的多样性。对于主要的研讨会，八个插槽已预留给研究生和早期职业科学家的申请。这个研讨会是由环境生物学部生物科学理事会的桥接生态学和进化类别资助的。这个奖项反映了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。