Symposium: Crossroads of Plant, Animal, and Microbial Ecology, to be held August 10, 2001, Madison, WI

虽然植物生态生理学和动物生态生理学在过去几十年都取得了长足的发展，但两个领域的发展有所不同，植物生态生理学和动物生态生理学之间的差距越来越大。植物生理生态学通过放大生理过程与生态系统科学的联系日益紧密，而动物生态生理学在进化生理学领域的发展更为强劲。尽管如此，两个群落研究的生态生理过程基本相似。美国生态学会（植物生态生理学的主要学会之一）和综合与比较生物学学会（动物生态生理学的主要学会）的研究人员和专业学会成员认识到了这个问题。它们还认识到，增加两种方法和重点的分享将给这两个领域带来好处。本次研讨会的重点是植物、动物和微生物生态生理学的共性和差异，探讨不同研究群体之间增加交流的好处。它将于2001年8月在威斯康辛州麦迪逊市举行的美国生态学会年会上举行。除了让这个大型的、广泛参加的会议的参与者知道之外，研讨会的结果还将发表在《生物科学》杂志上。

While both plant ecophysiology and animal ecophysiology have enjoyed strong growth over the past decades, the fields have developed differently, accompanied by an increasing gap between plant and animal ecophysiology. Plant physiological ecology has increasingly developed links to ecosystem science by scaling up physiological process, whereas animal ecophysiologists have developed more strongly in the realm of evolutionary physiology. Despite this, both communities study fundamentally similar ecophysiological processes. Researchers and professional society members in the Ecological Society of America (one of the principal societies for plant ecophysiology) and in Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (the principal society for animal ecophysiology), recognize the problem. They also recognize the gains to both fields that will accrue from increased sharing of both methods and foci.This symposium focuses on commonalities and differences in plant, animal, and microbial ecophysiology, exploring the benefits of increased cross-talk among different communities of researchers. It will be held at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Madison, WI, in August 2001. In addition to reaching participants at this large, widely attended meeting, results from the symposium will be published in the journal, BioScience.