U.S.-Hungary: Workshop to Plan a Carpathian Basin ILTER Network

INT-9901106 Lajtha这一美国-匈牙利研讨会将研究在欧洲喀尔巴底盆地内建立国际长期生态研究(LTER)地点网络的潜力。它于1999年6月在布达佩斯举行。俄勒冈州立大学的凯特·拉伊塔和匈牙利科学院生态与植物研究所的编辑科瓦奇-朗是联合组织者，他们希望促进地区性科学家之间更高水平的交流，这些科学家传统上把研究重点放在国家问题上，而不是跨境主题。认识到喀尔巴底盆地生态区是一个相当一致的自然地理单元，具有相对较高的生物多样性，研讨会计划的特点是讨论如何改进来自波兰、乌克兰、捷克共和国、斯洛伐克共和国、匈牙利和罗马尼亚的邻近科学界的研究人员之间的网络联系。NSF支持的国家LTER将作为工作模型，美国科学家将为研讨会议程做出贡献。美国LTER网络认识到，跨站点研究为科学家提供了概括生态现象和检验当地发现有效性的机会。在借鉴美国LTER经验的基础上，这次国际研讨会将汇集来自该地区国家和美国的科学家：1)相互介绍参与国的科学家和LTER概念；2)分享研究想法、数据管理技术和联网计划；3)计划相互联系的实验和测量。如果成功，研讨会可能导致在以下主题上进行新的合作研究努力：测试和扩展将土地利用历史与生物地球化学循环和养分使用、空气污染与生态系统结构和功能、以及潜在的空气污染和土地利用对生物多样性的人为影响联系起来的模型。该研讨会以喀尔巴西亚盆地的长期生态研究为特色，通过使美国和中欧的专家能够在相互感兴趣和能力很强的领域结合互补的人才和共享研究资源，实现了促进科学知识的计划目标。

INT-9901106LajthaThis U.S.-Hungary workshop will examine the potential for a network of international long-term ecological research (LTER) sites within the Carpathian Basin of Europe. It takes place in Budapest during June 1999. Co-organizers Kate Lajtha of Oregon State University and Edit Kovacs-Lang with the Institute of Ecology and Botany of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences hope to promote a heightened level of exchange among regional scientists who traditionally focus their research on national questions rather than trans-boundary topics. Recognizing that the Carpathian Basin eco-region is a fairly consistent physico-geographical unit, with relatively high biodiversity, the workshop program features discussions directed toward finding ways to improve networking among researchers in the neighboring scientific communities from Poland, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Hungary, and Romania. The NSF-supported national LTER will serve as a working model and U.S. scientists will contribute to the workshop agenda.The U.S. LTER network recognizes that cross-site research offers scientists the opportunity to generalize about ecological phenomena and test the validity of local findings. Drawing upon the U.S. LTER experience, this international workshop will bring together scientists from the regional countries and from the United States to: 1) introduce scientists from participant countries to each other and LTER concepts, 2) share research ideas, data management techniques and networking programs, and 3) plan linked experiments and measurements. If successful, the workshop could lead to new collaborative research efforts in topics that test and expand models linking land use history to biogeochemical cycling and nutrient use, air pollution to ecosystem structure and function, and potentially, anthropogenic effects of air pollution and land use to biodiversity. This workshop featuring long-term ecological research in the Carpathian Basin fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling experts in the United States and Central Europe to combine complementary talents and share research resources in areas of strong mutual interest and competence.***