Workshop on Systematics, Society and Public Policy

系统生物学是对生物进行描述和分类，并重建物种和高等类群之间进化关系的学科。在进化的背景下识别、分类和比较生物的能力对生物学的许多其他领域至关重要，如功能形态学、生态学、生物地理学、行为研究和种群生物学。系统收集协会执行主任K.Elaine Hoagland博士组织了一次题为“系统学、社会和公共政策”的研讨会，在会上，系统学家可以与受系统生物学影响的政府政策制定者和广泛的生物学家互动。拟议的专题讨论会将为讨论系统学在解决国际生物多样性危机中发挥的关键作用提供一个及时的论坛。会议将产生重要的立场文件，并将启动系统主义者和政策制定者之间正在进行的互动。

Systematic biology is the discipline that describes and classifies living organisms, and reconstructs the evolutionary relationships among species and higher taxa. The ability to identify, classify, and compare organisms in an evolutionary context is critical to many other areas of biology, such as functional morphology, ecology, biogeography, behavioral studies, and population biology. Dr. K. Elaine Hoagland, Executive Director of the Association of Systematic Collections, has organized a symposium entitled "Systematics, Society, and Public Policy", at which systematists can interact with governmental policy-makers and a broad range of biologists impacted by systematic biology. The proposed symposium will provide a timely forum for a discussion of the critical role played by systematics in resolving the international crisis in biological diversity. The meeting will generate important position papers and will set in motion ongoing interactions between systematists and policy- makers.