The Role of Evolutionary, Population and Community Responsesin Analysis of Global Environmental Change: A Workshop Proposal; Friday Harbor, Washington; September 1991

环境变化的生态学讨论强调单个生物体的生理反应，或整个营养水平和功能群的生态系统水平反应。这些讨论在很大程度上遗漏了来自经典种群、进化和群落生态学领域的重要投入。然而，这些领域应该在讨论环境变化的生态后果方面发挥关键作用。人口和社区的相互作用是将环境变化的生理后果纳入生态系统水平反应的纽带。此外，进化生态学和群落生态学最近发展了丰富的经验和理论基础，有望催化…甚至直接提供关于大规模气候和土地利用变化的长期后果的预测。举办这次研讨会是为了探讨进化、生理、种群和群落生态学对环境变化问题的潜在贡献。与会者将评估现有的贡献，并为新的研究提出方向。此外，研讨会将尝试将其研究结果与以前的生态合成所产生的生理和生态系统水平的贡献联系起来。为了与广大受众分享这些评估，组织者将迅速出版一本经过编辑的书(将由商业出版商出版)，详细介绍与环境变化相关的进化和群落生态学的现有见解，并突出显示并列出未来研究的方向。此外，该报告的简要摘要将发表在美国生态学会的新出版物&gt；生态应用&gt；上，因此将免费提供给广大读者。最后，与会者还将为研讨会准备一份面向普通非技术受众的简明总结；这份“外行”报告可由国家科学基金会分发给政府官员。

Ecological discussions of environmental change have emphasized either physiological responses of individual organisms or ecosystem.level responses of entire trophic levels and functional groups. Largely missing from these discussions has been significant input from the domain of classical population, evolutionary, and community ecology. Yet these fields should be playing a key role in discussions of the ecological consequences of environmental change. Population and community interactions serve as links by which the physiological consequences of environmental change are integrated into ecosystem.level responses. Moreover, evolutionary and community ecology have recently developed a rich empirical and theoretical foundation that has the promise of catalyzing..perhaps even directly offering..predictions about long.term consequences of massive climatic and land.use shifts. This workshop is being held to address the potential contributions of evolutionary, physiological, population, and community ecology to issues of environmental change. Participants will evaluate existing contributions as well as suggest directions for new research. In addition, the workshop will attempt to link its findings to the physiological and ecosystem.level contributions that have emerged from previous ecological syntheses. To share the evaluations with a large audience, the organizers will rapidly produce an edited book (to be published by a commercial publisher) that details the existing insights of evolutionary and community ecology pertinent to environmental change, and that highlights and sets out directions for future research. In addition, a brief summary of the report will be published in the Ecological Society of America's new publication, >Ecological Applications>, which will thus reach a wide readership free of charge. Finally, the participants will also prepare a concise summary of the workshop geared to a general nontechnical audience; this "layperson's" report could be distributed among government officials by NSF.