Workshop: Phosphorus Cycling in Terrestrial Ecosystems: Advancing our fundamental understanding through an improved model-data connection; Spring, 2016; Moab, Utah

磷（P）已被证明限制了许多生态系统中的基本生态系统过程。尽管它的重要性，然而，大多数地球系统模型目前不包括任何方面的P循环。这就妨碍了这些模型用于产生和检验假设以及预测全球变化的影响。重要的是，P建模工作的一个关键挑战也是整个科学界面临的一个关键挑战;即，确定一条前进的道路，以提高我们对P周期的关键驱动因素、过程和全球变化响应的理解。汇集P专家将通过更综合的理解和概念化的P循环动力学，整合不同的P相关数据，改进的过程为基础的建模的P循环，和P数据模型集成，以满足这一需求。另一个潜在的进步源于研究P循环的物理学家和考虑将P纳入一系列不同模型的建模者之间明确合作的力量。研讨会将包括所有职业阶段的科学家，包括学生和博士后，以及来自代表性不足群体的参与者。研讨会的参与者将代表不同的理论，经验和数值模拟的观点，这是至关重要的，以提高我们的理解地球的P循环在全球变化的背景下。会议将包括来自不同研究视角和方法的专家，预计将产生五项成果：1）从各种评估中加深对陆地磷循环的理解; 2）将公开提供用于分析和建模的综合数据集; 3）将提交一份会议报告，供在同行评审期刊上发表，以及一套补充的基于数据的论文; 4）一套计划的合作研究项目和赠款，以确定方法，以获得必要的知识，提高对关键领域的理解;和5）一个网络的个人致力于促进跨学科的方法，P研究。

Phosphorus (P) has been shown to limit a number of fundamental ecosystem processes in a wide range of ecosystems. Despite its importance, however, most Earth system models do not currently include any aspect of the P cycle. This hinders the utility of these models for generating and testing hypotheses and for forecasting the effects of global change. Importantly, a critical challenge for P modeling efforts is also a critical challenge for the scientific community as a whole; namely, determining a way forward for improving our understanding of the key drivers, processes, and global change responses of the P cycle. Bringing together P experts will address this need through a more synthetic understanding and conceptualization of P cycle dynamics, integration of varied P-related data, improved process-based modeling of the P cycle, and P data-model integration. Another potential advance stems from the power of explicit collaborations between empiricists who study P cycling and modelers considering the inclusion of P in a range of different models. The workshop will include scientists at all career stages including students and postdocs, as well as participants from underrepresented groups. Workshop participants will represent diverse theoretical, empirical, and numerical modeling perspectives that are critical for improving our understanding of the terrestrial P cycle in the context of global change. The meeting will include experts that span a variety of research perspectives and methods and is expected to have five outcomes: 1) an improved understanding of terrestrial P cycling from varied assessments; 2) synthesized datasets that will be publicly available for analysis and modeling; 3) a meeting report that will be submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal and a complementary set of data-based papers; 4) a set of plans for collaborative research projects and grants to identify approaches to obtain the knowledge necessary for improved understanding in critical areas; and 5) a network of individuals dedicated to fostering cross-disciplinary approaches to P research.