RCN: Integrating the Ecology and Evolution of Invasions: A Predictive Framework and Collaborative Approach

RCN：整合入侵的生态学和进化：一种预测框架和协作方法，确定使引入物种繁殖并成为入侵的因素，这是世界各地生态学家和进化生物学家面临的根本挑战。该奖项将创建一个研究协调网络(RCN)，目的是提高我们对生物入侵的综合理解，特别是关于生物抗性、敌人释放、适应性进化和杂交机制之间的相互作用。这个RCN将寻求一个预测框架，以更好地整合这些入侵假设，并澄清他们的预测。该网络将赞助年度圆桌会议，协调各种研究项目，并为高中开发教学模块。它还将在科学会议和研究交流中主办研讨会，以促进学生和博士后培训，并将致力于类似问题的小组联系起来。对学生的培训将寻求通过特别努力让土著美国人和非裔美国人本科生参与研究、教学和管理，从而增加多样性。该网络还将开发一个地理参考网站，并培养媒体联系，将公众与科学联系起来。

RCN: Integrating the ecology and evolution of invasions: a predictive framework and collaborative approach Determining the factors that enable introduced species to proliferate and become invasive is a fundamental challenge to ecologists and evolutionary biologists worldwide. This award will create a research coordination network (RCN) with the goal of improving our synthetic understanding of biological invasions, particularly with respect to the interplay among mechanisms of biotic resistance, enemy release, adaptive evolution, and hybridization. This RCN will seek a predictive framework to better integrate these hypotheses for invasions, and to clarify their predictions. The network will sponsor annual round tables, coordinate diverse research projects, and develop teaching modules for high schools. It will also sponsor symposia at scientific meetings and research exchanges to promote student and postdoc training and link groups working on similar issues. Training of students will seek to increase diversity through special efforts to engage Native American and African American undergraduates in research, teaching and management. The network will also develop a geo-referenced website, and cultivate media liaisons to connect the public with science.