Workshop on: Predicting Across Scales: Theory Development and Testing; Oak Ridge, TN; November 8-11, 1988

将召开一次研讨会讨论理论发展 以及测试不同空间和 时间尺度 研讨会的目标是（1） 促进不同领域科学家之间的互动 生态学科的专家们正积极地 空间和时间尺度之间的信息;（2）分析 最新的理论进展;（3）当前的案例研究 展示了生态过程， 测量影响解释;（4）讨论相关 数学、统计和地理方法， 跨尺度推断信息;以及（5）识别 未来研究的关键需求。 讲习班的成果 将通过一个 《生态学会公报》上的总结报告 美国和景观生态学的特刊， 包含讨论理论问题和案例研究的论文。 至关重要的是，必须作出协调一致的努力， 综合和确定重要的研究目标， 来自不同空间的界面预测、结果和数据 或时间尺度。

A workshop will be convened to discuss theoretical developments and methods of testing predictions between different spatial and temporal scales. The objectives of the workshop are to (1) foster increased interaction among scientist of different ecological disciplines who are actively working on extrapolating information between spatial and temporal scales; (2) analyze recent theoretical developments; (3) present case studies demonstrating ecological processes for which the scale of measurement influences the interpretation; (4) discuss relevant mathematical, statistical, and geographical methods for extrapolating information across scales; and (5) identify critical needs for future research. The results of the workshop will be conveyed to the general scientific community through a summary report in the Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America and a special issue of Landscape Ecology that will contain papers discussing theoretical issues and case studies. It is critical that a concerted effort be made to develop new syntheses and define important research objectives needed to interface predictions, results, and data from different spatial or temporal scales.