WORKSHOP: Convening the first symposium-workshop on landslide Ecology - A perspective from tropical mountainscapes

拟举办一次专题讨论会--讲习班，主题是“滑坡生态学--从热带山脉的视角”，其主要目标有三：第一，使生态学家接触到一个概念模型，该模型强调生态系统和地貌过程之间的深层联系，以及由此产生的由滑坡引起的热带山脉的大规模动态。将不同背景的专家聚集在一起，在更广泛的背景下思考他们自己的滑坡工作，是打破学科内部和学科之间障碍的第一步。第二，与来自与滑坡相关的国家的听众分享关于滑坡生态学的有限而多样的工作。参加这个研讨会-研讨会的生态学家使用不同的技术(野外和实验室工作、树木年轮分析、遥感、地理信息系统和建模)来研究世界范围内山地系统中的各种问题。最后，概述一个战略计划，这将有助于滑坡生态学领域的持续增长，以及更广泛地说，将生物学与地学联系起来的新兴领域。广泛的影响--拟议的研讨会--研讨会将首次将研究滑坡对热带和亚热带山地生态系统的影响的学生和教职员工聚集在一起，同时促进建立一个合作者网络。此外，研讨会-讲习班旨在挑战生态学家思考生态系统如何通过使他们接触到滑坡形成的物理方面来影响这一地貌过程。本次研讨会是中国昆明热带生物与保护学会年会的一部分，预计将产生事半功倍的效果。事实上，这次会议吸引了一群观众，对他们来说，山脉和山体滑坡是重要的.本次研讨会的成果将被公布，此外，摘要将发布在一个网页(http://ursula.cnnet.upr.edu/landslides/))上，该网页将重点关注滑坡生态。总体而言，本次研讨会-工作坊将突出生态学家对理解具有进化、生态、环境和社会影响的大规模地貌过程所能做出的贡献。

A symposium-workshop is proposed onLandslide Ecology - A perspective from Tropical Mountainscapes that has three main goals:First, to expose ecologists to a conceptual model that emphasizes deep connections betweenecosystem and geomorphic processes, and the resulting large-scale dynamics of tropicalmountains mediated by landslides. Bringing together experts with diverse backgrounds to thinkabout their own landslide work in a broader context is a first step towards breaking down barrierswithin and among disciplines. Second, to share the limited, yet diverse work on landslide ecologywith an audience coming from nations in which landsliding is a relevant process. The ecologistsparticipating in this symposium-workshop use diverse techniques (field and lab work, tree ringanalysis, remote sensing, GIS, and modeling) to examine a diverse array of questions inmountain systems world-wide. Lastly, to outline a strategic program that will contribute to asustained growth of the field of landslide ecology, and more broadly speaking of emerging fieldslinking biology with geosciences.Broader impacts - The proposed symposium-workshop will bring together for the first timestudents and faculty investigating the influence of landslides on tropical and subtropical montaneecosystems, catalyzing at the same time the establishment of a network of collaborators. Inaddition, the symposium-workshop is meant to challenge ecologists to think of ways in whichecosystems influence this geomorphic process by exposing them to the physical aspectsunderlying the formation of landslides. This symposium-workshop has been programmed as partof the annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Kunming,China, and therefore it is expected to have a multiplicative effect. In fact, this meeting attracts anaudience for which mountains and landslides are important. The results of this symposiumworkshopwill be published, and in addition, the summaries will be posted on a web page(http://ursula.cnnet.upr.edu/landslides/) that will focus on landslide ecology. Overall, thissymposium-workshop will highlight the contribution that ecologists can make to understand alarge-scale geomorphic process with evolutionary, ecological, environmental, and societalimplications.