GEOMORPHOLOGY AND ECOSYSTEMS - 36TH ANNUAL BINGHAMTON GEOMORPHOLOGY SYMPOSIUM (BGS 2005)

整合不同的学科，以及它们不同的优先级、固有问题、研究方法、方法和成功的衡量标准，是环境科学的一个基本挑战。尽管地貌学在生态系统过程中扮演着重要的角色，但在连接地貌学和生态系统生态学的学科方面，这一点也许是最正确的。许多地貌（即物理）过程与生态系统过程在相似的时空尺度上并行发生，从而使这两个系统相互依赖。因此，要预测地球生态系统的未来状态，并制定有效的管理和恢复措施，就必须对环境的这两个方面如何相互影响以及它们的过程如何相互反馈形成一种耦合的理解。宾厄姆顿地貌学研讨会（BGS 2005）将围绕“地貌学和生态系统”的主题，并将创造一个跨学科的环境，与会者将回顾、综合和讨论地貌学和生态系统生态学之间交叉的概念范式、实地证据和模拟模型。BGS 2005将强调景观过程/形态与生态系统/生态过程的耦合，以及地貌-生态系统在空间和时间上的相互作用对环境管理和恢复的影响。这次会议将产生三个主要影响。首先，它将从根本上提高对地球生态系统的普遍理解，以及如何有效地保护、管理和潜在地恢复这些生态系统。因此，这次会议的结果将对学科和整个社会具有根本性的重要性。第二，本次会议将提供一个展示来自不同学科背景的许多国际知名学者和实践者的研究的场所，特别是女性和青年地貌学家和生态学家的研究。最后，本次会议将展示地理学家在人类环境传统中对环境科学的贡献，特别是在地貌学领域。这次以“地貌与生态系统”为主题的跨学科会议使专家和青年科学家能够探讨景观开发与生态系统之间的联系。两者都是相互依赖的动态系统。因此，了解这些系统的基本概念和行为对于有效管理由地貌和生态系统相互关联的动力学引起的极端事件至关重要。社会需要知识和能力来处理诸如土壤侵蚀、藻类繁殖、洪水、入侵物种、野火或山体滑坡等问题。会议为交流思想和了解这一新兴跨学科领域的最新研究创造了一个平台。

Integrating disparate disciplines, with their different priorities, inherent questions, research methods, approaches, and metrics of success is a fundamental challenge in environmental science. No where is this perhaps more true than in bridging the disciplines of geomorphology and ecosystems ecology, despite the fundamental role that geomorphology plays in ecosystem processes. Many geomorphic (i.e., physical) processes occur parallel with ecosystem processes at similar spatial and temporal scales, thus making the two systems mutually dependent. Predicting future states of the Earth's ecosystems, and developing effective management and restoration practices, thus necessitates developing a coupled understanding of how these two aspects of the environment influence each other, and how their processes feedback into each other. The Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium (BGS 2005) will focus around the theme of "Geomorphology and Ecosystems" and will produce an interdisciplinary environment in which participants will review, synthesize and discuss the conceptual paradigms, field evidence and simulation models at the intersection between geomorphology and ecosystems ecology. BGS 2005 will emphasize the coupling of landscape processes/forms with ecosystem/ecological processes, as well as implications of geomorphology-ecosystem interactions in space and time for environmental management and restoration. There are three primary impacts that this conference will have. First, it will fundamentally improve general understanding of the Earth's ecosystems, and how these ecosystems can effectively protected, managed and potentially restored. Thus, the results from this conference will be of fundamental importance to the disciplines and society in general. Second, this conference will provide a venue for show-casing the research of many internationally acclaimed scholars and practitioners from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, particularly the research of female and junior geomorphologists and ecologists. Finally, this conference will show-case the contributions made by geographers working in the human-environment tradition to environmental science in general, particularly within the discipline of geomorphology. This interdisciplinary conference with focus on "Geomorphology and Ecosystems" allows experts and young scientists to explore the linkage between landscape development and ecosystems. Both are dynamic systems that are interdependent. Therefore the understanding of the fundamental concepts and behavior of such systems is crucial in effective managing the extreme events caused by the linked dynamics of geomorphic and ecological systems. Society needs the knowledge and ability to deal with, for example, soil erosion, algae blooms, floods, invasive species, wildfires, or landslides. The meeting creates a platform to exchange ideas and learn about the latest research in this emerging interdisciplinary field.