Ecological Determinants of Oceanic Carbon Cycling (EDOCC)

9908649最近在不同领域的研究结果定性地证实了上层海洋生物过程在确定海洋在全球碳通量中的作用方面的重要性。 此外，海洋微生物区系已成为海洋碳循环和海洋对近期（十年尺度）气候波动的响应中不可或缺的组成部分。 生物控制的令人信服的证据和强大的新方法（如分子生态学，遥感）的可用性为我们提供了前所未有的机会。 明确界定海洋微生物群与关键碳库之间相互作用的多样性，以及在相关时间和空间尺度上对这些相互作用的控制，以便将这些过程置于全球范围内，这是我们力所能及的。 因此，我们建议举办一个重点研讨会，汇集海洋微生物生态学和海洋地球化学领域的领导者，1）审查最近进展的突出方面，2）明确确定和阐明未来十年的关键研究目标，这将极大地促进我们对海洋生物群在碳循环中的理解。 我们的最终目标是开发这些系统的足够的机械知识，以预测海洋微生物群对碳循环环境扰动的响应。 讲习班的一项明确成果将是就下一个十年最能促进这一目标的关键研究领域提出建议。

9908649 Recent research results in diverse areas qualitatively confirm the importance of upper ocean biological processes in determining the role of the oceans in global carbon flux. Furthermore, the oceanic microbiota have emerged as an intergral component in oceanic carbon cycling and in the ocean response to near term (decadal scale) climate fluctuations. The compelling evidence of biological controls and the availability of powerful new methodologies(e.g. molecular ecology, remote sensing) provide us with an unprecedented opportunity. It is within our reach to define explicitly the diversity of interactions of the oceanic microbiota with key carbon pools and, moreover, the controls on these interactions over the relevant time and space scales needed to place these processes in a global context. We therefore propose to undertake a focused workshop to bring together leaders in the field of marine microbial ecology and biogeochemistry 1) to review the salient aspects of recent advances and 2) to clearly identify and articulate the key research objectives for the next decade which will most greatly promote our understanding of the marine biota in carbon cycling. Our ultimate goal is to develop a sufficient mechanistic knowledge of these systems to allow prediction of the response of the oceanic microbiota to environmental perturbations with respect to carbon cycling. An explicit outcome of the workshop will be recommendations for the critical research areas for the next decade that will best foster this objective.