SICB SYMPOSIUM: New Approaches to the Study of Marine Plant-Animal Interactions., to be held at the SICB meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, January 4-8, 2000

该提案为拟于2000年1月4日至8日在格鲁吉亚亚特兰大举行的整合和比较生物学学会会议上举行的海洋植物-动物相互作用专题讨论会寻求资金。 植物与动物的相互作用对生态学的各个领域和分支学科都具有重要意义。 它们一直是一个丰富的研究领域，是陆地系统许多创新研究领域的重点。 虽然陆地科学家使用的许多研究领域适用于海洋系统，但还有一些研究领域是海洋特有的，因为海洋环境在物理上不同于陆地环境，而且栖息在海洋环境中的生物种类也不同。因此，有些问题在海洋系统中比在陆地系统中更容易回答或更难回答，通常，适用于海洋系统的研究方法的类型与研究方法不同， 地球系统 PI的目标是利用这次研讨会提供一个平台，将注意力集中在新的，创新的海洋植物-动物研究领域，将携带PI进入下一个世纪。 研究所建议由从植物和动物两方面进行研究的人提出新的想法，并为未来的研究提出发展成熟的方向。 此外，PI将包括生态动力学领域，其中基于过程的问题是最经常研究的。 将为本次研讨会做出贡献的研究人员包括年龄较大的科学家，他们的作品被视为该领域的经典之作，以及已经证明有能力将该领域带入创新新方向的年轻科学家。 这次研讨会将有助于振兴海洋植物-动物相互作用领域，并为下一个世纪的新研究提供一条道路。

This proposal seeks funds for a symposium on Marine Plant-Animal Interactions to be held at the Society for Intregrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) meetings in Atlanta, Georgia from January 4-8, 2000. Plant-animal interactions are fundemental importance to all areas and subdisciplines in Ecology. They have been a rich area of study and the focus on many innovative areas of research in terrestrial systems. Although many areas of research that have been used by terrestrial scientists are appropriate for marine systems, there are other areas of research that are uniquely marine because the marine environment is physically different from the terrestrial environment and because differenttypes of organisms inhabit it. Therefore, some questions are more amenable or difficult to answer in marine systems than terrestrial systems, and often the types of research approaches appropriate to marine systems differ from research approaches in terrestrial systems. The PIs goals are to use this symposium to provide a platform that will focus attention on new, innovative areas of marine plant-animal research that will carry the PIs into the next century. The PIs propose to have researches who have worked from both the prespectives of the plants and the animals put forward new ideas and proposed directions for future study that are ripe for development. In addition, the PIs will include areas of ecological dynamics, where process based questions are most often studied. The researchers who will contribute to this symposium include a mix of older, established scientists whose works are viewed as classic in the field, and younger scientist who have already demonstrated the ability to take the field into innovative new directions. This symposium will help to a rejuvenation of the field of marine plant-animal interactions and provide a path for new research into the next century.