Paleontological Powers of Ten: Issues of Scale in Paleoecology Workshop; Washington, D.C.; September 13-16, 2007

PIS提议举办一次为期4天的研讨会，研究联合和划分不断增长的古生态领域的中心问题，特别是与时空尺度有关的问题。研讨会将评估时间和空间，当从不同的尺度考虑时，如何塑造对过去生态社区的理解，以及通过地球历史导致生态变化的因素。这一讲习班对于整合数据和改善古生态学几个不同领域之间的交流至关重要，每个领域都涉及不同种类的化石保存，面对不同的时空分辨率谱，并使用略有不同的数据收集和分析方法。这些古生态研究领域大致可分为海洋无脊椎动物、陆生植物和陆生脊椎动物。长期目标是建立一个有效的框架，在不同的时间和空间尺度上向生态学家传递古生态知识，并最终加强古生态学在进化生态学中的作用。工作坊将于2007年9月13日至16日在史密森学会举行，包括32名学生、博士后、国际科学家和科学记者。

The PIs propose hosting a 4-day workshop to investigate the central issues uniting and dividing the growing field of paleoecology, particularly as they are related to spatio-temporal scale. The workshop will assess how time and space, when considered at diverse scales, shape understanding of past ecological communities and the factors that have caused ecological change through earth history. This workshop is critical for integrating data and improving communication among several distinct areas of paleoecology, each addressing different kinds of fossil preservation, facing different spectra of time-space resolution, and using somewhat different approaches to data collection and analysis. These areas of paleoecological investigation can be circumscribed broadly as marine invertebrate, terrestrial plant and terrestrial vertebrate. The long range goal is to build an effective framework for transmitting paleoecological knowledge at different temporal and spatial scales to ecologists, and ultimately to strengthen the role of paleoecology in evolutionary ecology. The workshopwill occur at the Smithsonian Institution September 13th - 16th, 2007 and include 32 including students, postdocs, international scientists and science reporters.