Symposium: The Crisis in Invertebrate Conservation; to be held in Vancouver, B.C., December 1992

资金将支持一个为期一天的研讨会，题为“无脊椎动物保护的危机”，由美国动物学家协会（ASZ）赞助，并于1992年12月在不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华举行的1992年年会上举行。在温哥华会议上，ASZ将与加拿大动物学家协会聚集在一起，提供一个国际论坛。研讨会讨论了保护生物学中一个日益严重的问题：对无脊椎动物保护的主要问题的关注相对较少，这些问题涉及大约28个门和所有主要的地球栖息地类型。届时将有11位演讲者，每位演讲者都将讨论一个紧迫的话题。他们将讨论环境变化、污染、引进物种和过度捕捞对许多无脊椎动物的影响，这些无脊椎动物来自珊瑚礁、温带岩石海岸、淡水溪流和湖泊、温带和热带森林等多种栖息地。这次研讨会将向广大观众讲述这场危机，促进在处理无脊椎动物保护方面的思想、问题和方法的交流，并在无脊椎动物保护生物学领域激发急需的行动。

Funding will support a one-day symposium entitled, "The Crisis in Invertebrate Conservation," to be sponsored by the American Society of Zoologists (ASZ) and held during its 1992 annual meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia in December 1992. At the Vancouver meeting, ASZ will assemble together with the Canadian Society of Zoologists, providing an international forum. The symposium addresses a growing problem in conservation biology: the relatively small attention given to major problems in invertebrate conservation across some 28 phyla and all major earth habitat types. There will be eleven speakers, each addressing an urgent topic. They will discuss the effects of environmental alteration, pollution, introduced species and over harvesting on many invertebrate phyla from habitats as diverse as coral reefs, temperate rocky coasts, fresh water streams and lakes, and temperate and tropical forests. The symposium will dramatize the crisis to a broad audience, facilitate exchange of ideas, concerns and approaches to dealing with invertebrate conservation, and stimulate much needed action in the area of invertebrate conservation biology.