RoL:FELS: Workshop: Reciprocal illumination between ecology and biomechanics: evolution, integration, and constraint, March 2019, Portland, Oregon

为了生存，动物必须在它们的环境条件下执行任务，而这些条件在整个地球上正在迅速变化。反过来，动物的功能是约束、可塑性、适应和其他过程的产物。制约因素可以是生态的、进化的、发展的或生物力学的。因此，理解与动物功能相关的复杂表型需要一种综合的方法。为了实现这一目标，研讨会将汇集多个领域，从专注于基因组学和进化生态学的生物学家，到生物机械学家。这个研讨会属于生命规则，因为它探索了复杂的表型如何对生态变化做出反应，从而导致塑料和进化反应。这是如何发生的，对于决定动物和植物在未来几年是否/如何生存至关重要。研讨会的成果将与广大受众(包括公众)分享。研讨会的主题将被强调为高年级(8-12)的主要讨论主题。总体来说，《事情是怎么运作的，为什么会这样》的主题对年轻人来说很有意思。研讨会旨在激发好奇心，以便涌现出未来的STEM学者和专业人士。对不同参与者小组的关注将确保科学界为该领域的未来赋权，选出现任和未来的领导人，作为科学界代表性不足群体的学生的榜样。有鉴于此，参与者是多样化的。探索了解复杂表型的起源和分支一直是进化生物学家相当长时间以来的目标。然而，在这一探索中的一个主要差距是纳入了生物力学相关的信息来理解复杂的特征。尽管功能调节的特征可能是生存的关键，但这一事实仍然存在。形态性状已被用作生物力学性状的替代，但这经常被证明是不充分的。此外，生态变量是了解生物体如何在其环境中发挥作用的关键。这反过来又是理解进化过程的关键。完全理解复杂的特征需要的是生态学、生物力学和进化论的整合。就动物功能而言，整合是持久的，对成功执行任务很重要。目前尚不清楚这与生态学之间的关系。这次研讨会将汇集生物机械学家、功能形态学家、进化生物学家和生态学家，以产生一个生态力学范式，这将成为未来揭示复杂表型关键信息的研究的基础。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

To survive, animals must perform tasks within the context of their environmental conditions, and these conditions are rapidly changing across earth. Animal function is, in turn, a product of constraint, plasticity, adaptation, and other processes. Constraints can be ecological, evolutionary, developmental, or biomechanical. Thus, understanding complex phenotypes related to animal function requires an integrative approach. To accomplish this, the workshop will bring together a number of fields, from biologists focused on genomics and evolutionary ecology, to biomechanists. This workshop falls under the Rules of Life as it explores how complex phenotypes respond to ecological shifts, resulting in plastic and evolutionary responses. How this occurs is critical for determining if/how animals and plants will survive over the coming years. The results of this workshop will be shared with a broad audience (including the general public). The topic of the workshop will be highlighted as a main discussion topic for upper grades (8-12). In general, the theme of "How Things Work and Why" is interesting to young people. The workshop seeks to stimulate curiosity so that future STEM scholars and professionals emerge. The focus on a diverse panel of participants will ensure that the scientific community is empowering the future of the field, selecting current and future leaders that will serve as role models for students from underrepresented groups in the sciences. In light of this, the participants are diverse. The quest to understand the origin and ramifications of complex phenotypes has been a goal of evolutionary biologists for a considerable amount of time. However, a major gap in this quest is the incorporation of biomechanically relevant information to understand complex traits. This is despite the fact that functionally-mediated traits are likely critical for survival. Morphological traits have been used as proxies for biomechanical traits, but this has frequently been shown to be inadequate. In addition, ecological variables are key for understanding how organisms function in their environment. This, in turn, is key for understanding evolutionary processes. What is needed to fully understand complex traits is the integration of ecology, biomechanics, and evolution. In terms of animal function, integration is persistent and important for the successful execution of tasks. How this relates to ecology is currently unknown. This workshop will bring together biomechanists, functional morphologists, evolutionary biologists, and ecologists to generate a paradigm for ecomechanics that will be the foundation for future research that will uncover key information regarding complex phenotypes.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.