Support of the Fourth Cary Conference: Human versus NaturalInfluences on Ecosystems: Implications for Theory and Practice; May 4-7, 1991, Millbrook, NY

生态系统研究所将于1991年5月4日至5月7日主办一次关于“人类作为生态系统组成部分”的国际会议。这次会议的目的是提供一个论坛，探讨如何将人类对生态系统的影响更好地纳入基础生态学研究。尽管过去一直有将人类及其影响纳入生态学研究的定期呼吁，但生态学家通常没有回应。然而，由于广泛接受了一种适应系统的补丁性和开放性的自然观点，以及同种异体和偶发过程的作用，该领域现在正在接受。加里会议旨在推动将人类作为生态因素及时纳入其中。会议的具体目标是：1 .调查人类和非人类对生态系统影响的异同。2. 通过将生态学家、人类生态学家、历史学家、地理学家、经济学家和社会学家聚集在一起，交流思想，提出研究问题，将生态学的信息与其他学科的信息整合起来，分享研究人类对生态系统影响的数据和方法。3. 编写一本编辑过的书，包含与人类对生态系统影响的研究有关的各种学科的思想、数据、研究方法和结论。与以往的卡里会议一样，这次会议的重点将放在知识交流、讨论和对生态学基本思想的批判性审查上。演讲者和其他参与者将面临挑战，将他们的思维扩展到自己研究领域的日常限制之外。这样一个开放和批判性的评估将有助于刺激生态社区，鼓励来自不同学科的思想整合，并将为新的研究方向提供基础。

The Institute of Ecosystem Studies will host an international conference on "Human as Components of Ecosystems" on 4 May through 7 May 1991. The conference is designed to provide a forum to explore how human influences on ecosystems can be incorporated better into basic ecological studies. Although there have been in the past periodic calls for the inclusion of humans and their effects in ecological studies, ecologists have not often responded. However, the field is now receptive due to the widespread acceptance of a view of nature accommodating the patchiness and openness of systems, and the role of allogenic and episodic processes. The Cary Conference seeks to stimulate the timely inclusion of humans as ecological factors. The specific goals of the conference are to: 1 Investigate the similarities and differences between human and non-human influences on ecosystems. 2. Integrate information from ecology with that from a variety of other disciplines by bringing together ecologists, human ecologists, historians, geographers, economists, and sociologists to exchange ideas, pose research questions, and share data and methodologies for studying human influences on ecosystems. 3. Produce an edited book containing ideas, data, research methodologies and conclusions from a diversity of disciplines relevant to the study of human influences on ecosystems. As in previous Cary Conferences, the emphasis of this meeting will be on the exchange of knowledge, discussion and the critical examination of the fundamental ideas in ecology. Speakers and other participants will be challenged to extend their thinking beyond the day-to-day limits of their own research fields. Such an open and critical evaluation will help to stimulate the ecological community, and encourage the integration of ideas from a diversity of disciplines, and will provide the foundation for new research directions.