Environmental Regulation of Biodiversity: An Integrated Multilevel Training Program

当今环境生物学的一个紧迫危机是，全球和国家生物多样性的加速丧失已经超出了我们对其原因和后果的基本知识。 我们几乎无法预测或管理大多数生态系统和种群的未来，主要是因为我们对产生和管理生物多样性的复杂环境过程的理解非常不完整，并且取决于一些相互作用的分类，时间和空间尺度。 我们的建议集中在生物多样性的三个主要组成部分：遗传多样性，物种多样性和栖息地多样性的生物多样性的环境监管的研究生培训。 芝加哥大学的CEB提供综合的、跨学科的博士培训课程，参与者来自大学的每个部门和三个主要的非学术芝加哥研究和教育机构，菲尔德博物馆、布鲁克菲尔德动物园和阿贡国家实验室。 环境生物多样性培训计划将利用我们在生态学，地理学，系统学，遗传学，古生物学，行为和功能方面的定量，经验和理论优势。 它将产生下一代领导人谁可以解决这一优先领域的复杂性和本质上的跨学科问题。 行政首长协调会对增加征聘和维持代表性不足的人口参与环境生物学的坚定承诺体现在一系列创新举措上，这些举措利用我们独特的结构，并以个人的个性化努力为基础。

A pressing crisis in environmental biology today is that the accelerating loss of biodiversity, globally and nationally, has outrun our fundamental knowledge of its causes and consequences. We are little able to predict or manage the future of most ecosystems and populations largely because our understanding of the complex environmental processes that generate and govern biodiversity is grossly incomplete and depends on a number of interacting taxonomic, temporal, and spatial scales. We focus our proposal for graduate training in environmental regulation of biodiversity on three major components of biodiversity: genetic diversity, species diversity, and habitat diversity. The University of Chicago's CEB provides and integrated, interdisciplinary PhD training program with participation arising from every Division of the University and three major non- academic Chicago research and educational institutions, the Field Museum, Brookfield Zoo, and Argonne National Laboratories. The environmental biodiversity training program will capitalize on our quantitative, empirical and theoretical strengths in ecology, biogeography, systematics, genetics, paleontology, behavior, and function. It will produce the next generation of leaders who can address the complexity and intrinsically interdisciplinary problems in this priority area. The CEB's deep-seated commitment to increasing recruitment and maintaining participation of underrepresented populations into environmental biology is represented by a range of innovative initiatives that utilize our unique structure and are based on personal, individualized efforts.