U.S.-Australia Joint Workshop: Recruitment and Population Dynamics of Coral Reef Fishes/Townsville, Australia/July 1995

小行星9418018 该奖项将支持10名美国海军陆战队员参加 1995年7月10日至14日在澳大利亚昆士兰州汤斯维尔附近举行的题为“珊瑚礁鱼类的补充和种群动态”的研讨会上，生态学家们。 美国的组织者是马克·A博士。来自俄勒冈州州立大学动物学系的Hixon说。 澳大利亚的主要组织者是北昆士兰州詹姆斯库克大学海洋生物系的杰弗里·P·琼斯博士。 美国和澳大利亚都越来越关注其珊瑚礁资源的健康。 珊瑚礁鱼类已成为公认的理想模式系统，进一步深入了解海洋鱼类种群的动态。 珊瑚礁鱼类的数量 受幼虫供应限制的补充已经变得既受欢迎又越来越有争议。 两国的研究人员在对招募限制的思考上出现了两极分化，导致了一种似乎阻碍科学进步的概念僵局。 讲习班将召集两国的高级调查人员，包括加拿大、日本、法国和联合王国的一些选定人员，力求开始解决这一争议。要考虑的议题包括珊瑚礁的适当空间尺度 鱼类研究、竞争对生存的影响、捕食和密度依赖、补充限制以及珊瑚礁渔业的管理和养护。 澳大利亚工业、科学和技术部为该讲习班提供了支助。

9418018 Hixon This award will support the participation of ten American marine ecologists at a workshop entitled "The Recruitment and Population Dynamics of Coral Reef Fishes" to be held near Townsville, Queensland, Australia, July 10 through 14, 1995. The American organizer is Dr. Mark A. Hixon from the Department of Zoology at Oregon State University. The Australian principal organizer is Dr. Geoffrey P. Jones from the Department of Marine Biology at the James Cook University of North Queensland. Both the United States and Australia have become increasingly concerned about the health of their coral-reef resources. Coral-reef fishes have become recognized as ideal model systems for furthering insight into the dynamics of marine fish populations. The idea that populations of coral-reef fishes are recruitment limited by larval supply has become both popular and increasingly controversial. Researchers from both countries have become polarized in their thinking about recruitment limitation, resulting in a conceptual stalemate that seems to be inhibiting scientific progress. By bringing together top investigators from both countries, including a selected few from Canada, Japan, France and the United Kingdom, the workshop will seek to begin the resolution of this controversy. Among the topics to be considered are appropriate spatial scales for reef fish studies, competition effects on survivorship, predation and density-dependence, recruitment limitation, and the management and conservation of reef fisheries. Australian support for this workshop is provided by the Australian Department of Industry, Science and Technology (DIST).