Workshop: Climate change and species interactions: ways forward

该奖项将支持一个为期两天的气候变化和物种相互作用会议。不断变化的气候条件威胁到一些物种的减少和灭绝，可能导致害虫和病原体的传播，并可能破坏相互作用物种的当地群落。这些变化对生态学家提出了重大挑战，包括：(1)预测单个物种的特征、丰度和分布将如何变化；(2)了解相互作用物种群落的结构和功能将如何变化；(3)预测这些物种和群落的预期变化将如何影响它们提供空气和水过滤、碳固存、侵蚀预防和疾病保护等生态系统服务的能力。科学家们需要新的模型、实验方法和统计工具来应对这些挑战，特别是预测单个物种将向何处移动，物种将如何进化，整个生态群落将如何变化，以及这些物种和群落将如何改变其执行生态系统服务的能力。会议将包括：超越传统的气候变化和物种反应模型；气候变化/物种相互作用研究中被忽视的问题前进方向：概念；和前进的道路：方法。报告和讨论将在一本编辑过的书和白皮书中进行总结。减轻气候变化对生态群落及其提供的生态系统服务的负面影响，需要在基础科学和战略方面取得进展，以指导未来的努力。除了促进研究气候变化影响的各种生态学家和进化生物学家之间的关键网络之外，会议和书籍将为成熟的和学生生态学家，政策专家和自然资源管理者提供材料，以提出创造性和有效的解决方案，以解决气候变化引起的环境和社会问题。

This award will support a two-day conference on climate change and species interactions. Changing climatic conditions threaten some species with declines and extinctions, can induce pests and pathogens to spread, and can disrupt local communities of interacting species. These changes present major challenges for ecologists, including: (1) predicting how individual species will change in their traits, abundance, and distribution; (2) understanding how communities of interacting species will change in their structure and function; and (3) forecasting how the anticipated changes in these species and communities will influence their abilities to provide ecosystem services such as air and water filtration, carbon sequestration, erosion prevention, and protection against disease. Scientists need new models, experimental approaches, and statistical tools to address these challenges, and specifically to project where individual species will move, how species will evolve, how entire ecological communities will change, and how those species and communities will change in their abilities to perform ecosystem services. Conference sessions will include: Beyond traditional models of climate change and species responses; Neglected issues in climate change/species interactions research; Ways forward: Concepts; and Ways forward: Approaches. Presentations and discussions will be summarized in an edited book and white paper.Mitigating the negative effects of climate change on ecological communities and the ecosystem services they provide requires advances in basic science and strategies to guide future efforts. In addition to fostering critical networking of a diverse set of ecologists and evolutionary biologists working on impacts of climate change, the conference and book will provide the materials for both established and student ecologists, policy experts, and natural resource managers to pose creative and effective solutions to the environmental and societal problems caused by climate change.