Workshop: Microscale Approaches to Macroscale Issues in Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology

为了预测全球变化对陆地生态系统的影响，越来越清楚的是，必须包括对土壤微生物群落的具体研究。然而，这很难实现，因为：1)研究肉眼无法看到的东西的技术挑战；2)生态系统生态学家与微生物生态学家研究方法的差异。方法上的最新进展使详细研究土壤微生物成为可能，但是如何最好地利用这些信息来保护和管理生态系统仍然不清楚。本次研讨会将汇集来自不同学科的科学家，以确定需要微生物学来回答的有关生态系统威胁的最重要问题，并确定哪些策略和可能的未来技术将允许科学家回答这些问题。该研讨会将在聚集来自几个科学领域的年轻和有经验的有远见的专家方面具有重要意义。除了具体的研究议程之外，其中一个成果将是建立一个跨学科的研究共同体，并增加科学学科之间的交流。由于生态系统生态学的问题很少局限于一个学科，这种跨学科的合作和交流对未来全球变化研究的努力至关重要。

In order to predict the impact of global changes onterrestrial ecosystems, it is becoming clear that specific study of the soil microbialcommunity must be included. However, this has been difficult to achievedue to: 1) technical challenges in studying what cannot beseen with the naked eye; and 2) differences in research approach of ecosystemversus microbial ecologists. Recent advances in methodsare making it possible to study soil microorganisms indetail, but how to best use the information to protectand manage ecosystems remains unclear. This workshop will bring together scientists from a range ofdisciplines to identify the most importantquestions about threats to ecosystems that requiremicrobiology to answer, and determine what strategiesand possible future techniques will allow scientists toanswer these questions? The workshop will be significant in gathering bothyoung and experienced visionary experts fromseveral scientific areas. One of the outcomes, inaddition to a concrete research agenda, will be thecreation of an interdisciplinary research communityand increased communication among science disciplines.Because issues in ecosystem ecology are rarelyconfined within a discipline, this type ofinterdisciplinary collaboration and communication iscritical for future efforts in global change research.