RCN: Biodiversity Mechanisms of Ecosystem Regulation in the Global Environment (BioMERGE)

生物多样性代表了生态系统的一个复杂和快速变化的特征，目前正在由两组不同的科学家进行深入研究;一组研究其分布，另一组研究其在生态过程中的功能。 然而，了解生物多样性广泛变化的环境后果需要将这些群体聚集在一起。 BioMERGE（全球环境中生态系统调节的生物机制）将是一个研究协调网络，将促进这两个小组的合并。 它将建立电子网络，以协调参与科学家之间科学成果的分享和传播。 生物多样性研究所还主办一系列讲习班，定期召集核心参与者解决新出现的理论和经验问题，开发分析工具，评估和推荐科学方案，并确定生物多样性研究的未来优先事项。 BioMERGE还将作为科学家和非科学家的信息门户，提供非技术共识论文、参考书目、词汇表和重要发现的摘要。

Biodiversity represents a complex and rapidly changing feature ofecosystems that is currently under intensive investigation by two distinctgroups of scientists; those that study its distribution and those thatstudy its function in ecological processes. Understanding theenvironmental consequences of widespread changes in biodiversity, however,requires bringing these groups together. BioMERGE (Biotic Mechanisms ofEcosystem Regulation in the Global Environment) will be aresearch-coordinating network that will foster the merger of these twogroups. It will develop electronic networks to coordinate the sharing anddissemination of scientific findings among participating scientists. Itwill also sponsor a series of workshops that will periodically assemblecore participants to resolve emerging theoretical and empirical issues,develop analytical tools, evaluate and recommend scientific protocol, andidentify future priorities in biodiversity research. BioMERGE will alsoserve as an information gateway for both scientists and non-scientistsalike by providing non-technical consensus papers, bibliographies,glossaries, and summaries of important findings.