COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Interdisciplinary workshop on assisted migration - August 2008, Milwaukee, WI.

辅助迁移是一种研究不足、但可能存在争议的策略，旨在通过有目的地将生物运送到它们预计在气候变化下占据的地区，来保护受全球变暖威胁的物种。辅助迁移旨在克服与栖息地丧失、快速气候变化和定居生活史特征相关的扩散障碍。将举行一次讲习班，根据目前关于影响物种分布的生物和非生物力量的生态知识，评估这一新生的保护战略。目标是综合科学信息和不确定性，为辅助迁移提供初步评价和研究计划。这次会议将对协助移徙的潜在利益和危险以及实施的潜在挑战进行批判性评价。该项目将有助于促进参与者强大的智力、专业和网络进步，这将导致未来的合作，并有助于建立智力基础设施。它还将支持研究生的积极参与，并为K-12科学课程提供开发课程模块（关于全球变化和物种灭绝）的机会。本次研讨会的成果将有助于促进这一对话，清楚地阐明当前对相关生态和进化过程的科学理解的优势和局限性。

Assisted Migration is an understudied, but potentially controversial, strategy that aims to preserve species threatened by global warming by purposefully transporting organisms to regions they are projected to occupy under climate change. Assisted migration aims to overcome dispersal barriers associated with habitat loss, rapid climatic change, and sedentary life history traits. A workshop will be held to evaluate this nascent conservation strategy in the light of current ecological knowledge about the biotic and abiotic forces influencing species distributions. The goal is to integrate scientific information and uncertainty, so as to provide the first evaluation and plan-of-study for assisted migration. This meeting will result in a critical evaluation of the potential benefits and dangers of assisted migration, as well as the potential challenges of its implementation. This project will help to facilitate strong intellectual, professional and networking advances for participants, which will lead to future collaborations and help to build intellectual infrastructure. It will also support the active participation of graduate students, and provide an opportunity to develop a curriculum module (on global change and species extinction) for K-12 science classes. The products emerging from this workshop will help facilitate this dialogue by clearly articulating the strengths and limitations of current scientific understanding of relevant ecological and evolutionary processes.