| NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Species’ Range Shifts in a Warming World | |
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United States - TN - Knoxville |
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| Hosted by: | National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis |
| Venue: | National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) |
| Dates: | May 03, 2017 through May 07, 2017 |
| Early Registration Deadline: | 2017-02-01 |
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Description |
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| The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) is now accepting applications for its Investigative Workshop, "Species’ Range Shifts in a Warming World," to be held May 3-5, 2017, at NIMBioS. Objectives: Climate change is dramatically altering species’ ranges and community composition, which will impact forest productivity, carbon cycling, and global biodiversity. Understanding how species and communities responded to past climatic changes, especially to dramatic warming following Ice Ages, can help us predict and mitigate future outcomes. However, our current understanding of historic ranges and species’ dynamics, based on single data types and outdated methods, is deficient (and sometimes misleading). Moreover, we lack a framework for explicit hypothesis testing of post-Ice Age biogeographical inference. This workshop aims to improve our ability to understand species’ and community response to climate change by identifying new modeling and analytical tools for integrating currently isolated datasets and fields of research on large-scale ecosystem shifts. Specifically, this workshop will focus on integrating paleoclimatic niche modeling, fossil pollen data, simulations of forest stand processes, and genetic marker data. These approaches vary in spatial and temporal resolution. At this workshop, researchers from diverse fields will: explicate the advantages and assumptions of each data type; discuss ways to analyze disparate data in a statistically coherent manner, while quantifying uncertainty across scales; and define a framework to examine species jointly at the community level rather than individually, leveraging power from many datasets. Synthesis findings from the workshop will be published, and a funding application will be organized to test this framework. Accomplishing these goals requires combining mathematical and computational approaches from very different fields – an exciting prospect. This workshop will help link and utilize large but underused datasets developed over decades, and lay foundations for genuinely interdisciplinary, collaborative paleoecological science. Location: NIMBioS at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Co-Organizers: Sean Hoban (Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL); Allan Strand (Biology, College of Charleston, SC); Andria Dawson (Statistics, Univ. of California, Berkeley, and Geosciences, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson); and Michelle Lawing (Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M Univ., College Station) For more information about the workshop and a link to the online application form, go to http://www.nimbios.org/workshops/WS_rangeshifts Participation in NIMBioS workshops is by application only. Individuals with a strong interest in the topic are encouraged to apply, and successful applicants will be notified within two weeks after the application deadline. If needed, financial support for travel, meals, and lodging is available for workshop attendees. Application deadline: February 1, 2017 The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) (http://www.nimbios.org) brings together researchers from around the world to collaborate across disciplinary boundaries to investigate solutions to basic and applied problems in the life sciences. NIMBioS is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, with additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. |
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| Additional Information | |
| Event URL: | http://www.nimbios.org/workshops/WS_rangeshifts |
| ISCB Member Discount: | None |
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