Woodstoich III -- A Workshop to Advance Integration Across Biology

生态化学计量学为更低层次的生态系统和生物系统的功能提供了新的见解。WoodStoich III将于2014年8月举行，将遵循之前两次WoodStoich研讨会的模式。将提前接受学生和博士后的开放申请，并选择一个国际小组，然后分成4-5个工作组，每个工作组由一名博士后级别的科学家领导。这些小组中的每一个都将致力于确定交叉概念以及生态化学计量学与其他迅速发展的生态学专业(如新陈代谢生态学、空间生态学、景观生态学、营养几何或其他)之间的潜在矛盾。每个小组将准备一份关于其主题的回顾/概念文件。研讨会的前两天将用来完成手稿的定稿。然后，这些文章将被提交给加速审查程序，审查将在24小时内退还给作者。研讨会的其余时间将用于修改重新提交的论文。学术价值将主要来自于即将出现的一系列论文，这些论文将推动化学计量学理论和其他生态学理论的发展。WoodStoich III将提供不同寻常的培训和职业发展机会。参与者将获得在不同小组工作的经验，并接受高级调查人员的指导，其中包括两名研讨会组织者(美国的R.Sterner和澳大利亚的D.Raubenheimer)以及至少另外两名资深科学家，他们将参与并提供一些必要的论文审查。WoodStoich III将为年轻科学家提供机会，让他们在同行评议的所有阶段获得经验。一名资深博士后科学家将获得支持，并将在帮助选择和指导团队以及组织会议方面获得领导经验。

Ecological stoichiometry has provided new insights into the functioning of ecosystems as well as biological systems at lower levels of organization. WoodStoich III will be held during August, 2014 and will follow the formula of two previous WoodStoich workshops. Open applications from students and Postdocs will be taken in advance, and an international group will be chosen and then divided into 4-5 working groups, each led by a Postdoctoral-level scientist. Each of these groups will work to identify crosscutting concepts as well as potential contradictions between ecological stoichiometry and one other quickly developing speciality in ecology (e.g. Metabolic Ecology, Spatial Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Nutritional Geometry, or others). Each group will prepare a review/concept paper on their topic. The first two days of the workshop will be used to finalize the manuscripts. These will then be submitted to an accelerated review process, with reviews returned to the authors within 24 hours. The rest of the workshop will be spent revising the papers for resubmission. The intellectual merit will come mainly from the set of papers to emerge, which will advance stoichiometric theory as well as other theories in ecology. WoodStoich III will provide unusual training and career advancement opportunities. Participants will receive experience working in diverse groups and receive mentoring from senior investigators, including the two workshop organizers (R. Sterner, USA and D. Raubenheimer, Australia) as well as at least two other senior scientists, who will participate and provide some of the needed reviews of the papers. WoodStoich III will provide opportunities for young scientists to gain experience with all phases of peer review. A senior Postdoctoral scientist will receive support and will gain leadership experience in helping to choose and mentor teams as well as organize the conference.