Interdisciplinary Workshops Linking River Ecology and Hydrologic Modeling

摘要提案编号：0437961题目：河流生态学与水文模拟的跨学科研讨会PI：N。该提案旨在开发知识库和技术工具，以帮助确定河流对淡水的生态系统需求。 淡水生态系统的复原力和长期可持续性正受到全球迅速变化的严重挑战，包括由于人口增长和可能的气候变化而增加的人类需求。 河流科学家，包括生态学家和水文学家，迫切需要开发工具来确定这些全球重要生态系统的水文需求，以支持其生态系统功能和生物多样性，并提供对其可持续管理至关重要的信息。 该提案将支持举办两个讲习班，将河流生态学家和水文建模人员聚集在一起，通过综合水文生态文献和专家意见以及使用各种技术进行水文建模的过程，奠定这一重要基础。 这些讲习班的贡献将是在国际科学家之间就淡水的生态系统需求达成共识，通过在世界各地的生态学家和水文学家之间建立跨学科网络来加强研究和教育的基础设施，通过让高年级研究生和/或博士后参加讲习班来建设未来的能力，在网页上和作为主要文献出版物广泛传播讲习班的成果，并为一个更全面的、为期5-8年的跨学科、在全球范围内确定河流生态系统需求的国际研究努力（GRSP）。

ABSTRACTProposal Number: 0437961Title: Interdisciplinary Workshops Linking River Ecology and Hydrologic ModelingPI: N. LeRoy PoffThis proposal is aimed at developing the knowledge base and technical tools to help define the ecosystem needs of rivers for freshwater. The resilience and long-term sustainability of freshwater ecosystems are being severely challenged by rapid global change, including increasing human demands due to population growth and, potentially, climate change. River scientists, including ecologists and hydrologists, urgently need to develop tools to define the hydrological needs of these globally important ecosystems, both to support their ecosystem functions and biodiversity, and to provide information critical for their sustainable management. This proposal will support two workshops to bring together river ecologists and hydrologic modelers to lay this important foundation through the processes of synthesizing the hydro-ecological literature and expert opinion and of hydrologic modeling using a variety of techniques. The contributions of these workshops will be to seek consensus among international scientists for ecosystem needs for freshwater, to enhance infrastructure for research and education by building interdisciplinary networks among ecologists and hydrologists from around the world, to build future capacity by involving advanced graduate students and/or post-docs in the workshops, to broadly disseminate workshop results both on web pages and as primary literature publications, and to lay the foundation for a more comprehensive, 5-8 year long, interdisciplinary, international research effort to define river ecosystem needs on a global scale (GRSP).