International Workshop on Long-Term Ecological Research: A Global Perspective; October 1988

大约30名国际专家将聚集在一个研讨会上，讨论长期生态研究的现状，主要是在北美和西欧。他们还将考虑两大洲长期研究地点未来的方向和可能的合作。发展一个致力于进行长期生态研究的国际站点网络是世界科学界研究全球变化努力的必要组成部分。对分布在地球表面的地点的关键生态参数进行仔细的长期测量，将使我们能够以明确的方式记录生态系统结构和功能的变化，以及变化的空中范围。有了来自大气和海洋科学家的更多信息，我们将能够提出关于大范围变化原因的假设。在我们能够将因果联系起来的程度上，我们将能够开发生态系统对全球变化的反应的预测模型。这些模型可用于制定管理地球生态资源的战略。讲习班的成果将以书籍的形式出版，与世界科学界分享。研讨会的组织委员会由里瑟博士领导，由来自世界各地的经验丰富的科学家组成。讲习班参与者的初步名单非常出色。开幕词将由哈伯德·布鲁克长期(25年)生态学研究的联合创始人吉恩·利肯斯博士发表。没有比这更好的科学家为研讨会定下更合适的基调了。

Approximately 30 international experts will be brought together in a workshop to discuss the current state of long-term ecological research, primarily in North America and Western Europe. They will also consider the future directions for and possible future cooperation among long-term research sites on both continents. The development of an international network of sites dedicated to conducting long-term ecological research is a necessary component of the world scientific community's efforts to study global change. Careful long-term measurements of key ecological parameters at sites distributed over the face of the earth will permit us to document, in an unambiguous way, changes in ecosystem structure and function, and the aerial extent of the changes. With additional information from atmospheric and ocean scientists we will be able to develop hypotheses about the causes of change at large scales. To the degree that we are able to link cause and effect we will then be able to develop predictive models of ecosystem responses to global change. These models can be used to develop strategies for the management of the earth's ecological resources. The results of the workshop will be shared with the world's scientific community through the publication of the proceedings as a book. The organizing committee for the workshop, lead by Dr. Risser, is made up of experienced scientists from through out the world. The preliminary list of workshop participants is outstanding. The opening address is to be given by Dr. Gene Likens, a co- founder of the long-term (25 year) ecological study at Hubbard Brook. No better scientist could have been chosen to set a more appropriate tone for the workshop.