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Following the presentation, we organized three panel discussions - one for each
Following the panel discussion, there was a facilitated group discussion among
participants inspired by the presentations and panel. As ideas developed, they
were recorded by the coordinators and distilled into categories for working
groups.
Working groups met for half a day and discussed the specific objectives below.
address the effect of climate-driven phenology shifts on seed dispersal effectiveness and plant
fitness.
* What opportunities for training and professional development has the project
provided?
The workshop brought together 30 researchers who work across biomes worldwide and
represent various subdisciplines, including mathematical biology, physics, theoretical
ecology, genetics, statistical ecology, and empirical ecology. Workshop participants
came from 6 countries and conducted research in North and South America, Europe,
Africa, Asia, and Oceania.
Manette.Sandor
Jim.Powell
Jeremy.Johnson
Sebastian.Schreiber
Evan.Fricke
Bette.Loiselle
Sebastian.Schreiber
Haldre.Rogers
Janneke.HilleRisLambers
Mike.Neubert
Geno.Schupp
Katriona.Shea
Onja.Razafindratsima
Florian.Hartig
Rebecca.Snell
Edu.Effiom
Gesine.Pufal
Christopher.Strickland
Katie.Gurski
Christopher.Strickland
Clare.Aslan
Jim.Powell
Jenny.Zambrano
Geno.Schupp
Jedediah.Brodie
Liba.Pejchar
Joy.Zhou
Damaris.Zurell
Mike.Neubert
Gesine.Pufal
Damaris.Zurell
a.Miriti
Alan.Hastings
Liba.Pejchar
Maria.Miriti
Clare.Aslan
Loiselle
Onja.Razafindratsima
Noelle.Beckman
Rebecca.Snell
Oleg.Kogan
Jedediah.Brodie
Katriona.Shea
Jeremy.Johnson
Judie.Bronstein
Haldre.Rogers
Janneke.HilleRisLambers
Judie.Bronstein
Emilio.Bruna
Alan.Hastings
Manette.Sandor
James.Bullock
Robin.Decker
Florian.Hartig
Joy.Zhou
Stephen.Cantrell
James.Bullock
Katie.Gurski
Stephen.Cantrell
Noelle.Beckman
Emilio.Bruna
Oleg.Kogan
Evan.Fricke
Jenny.Zambrano
Impacts
What is the impact on the development of the principal discipline(s) of the project?
Dispersal is a key process in the spread of populations, biodiversity patterns from local to global
scales, gene flow and potential adaptation in novel environments, and species responses to
global change. Global change processes, such as climate change and fragmentation, alter local
habitat conditions of species, and also the ecology and evolution of dispersal, affecting the ability
of species to move or adapt in response to global change events. For plants, which are largely
stationary, dispersal of seeds is critical. Our ability to predict population responses to global
change to inform conservation strategies is hampered by our incomplete understanding of the
role of seed dispersal in the long-term and inherently spatial dynamics of plant populations across
ecosystems. Building predictive models remains a major challenge. It requires a systematic
examination of dispersal mechanisms and high-resolution data across scales to reduce
uncertainty, as well as efficient computational methods and novel analytical approaches to
translate between scales in process-based models. An international collaboration among
empiricists, theoreticians, and mathematicians will allow seed dispersal ecology to advance
beyond case studies and overcome obstacles in theory and mathematics.
Edu.Effiom
Robin.Decker
Participants of the workshop agreed there are lots of existing data in the literature. The
organizers have applied for funding to collate this information and develop a data
repository for dispersal in collaboration with CyVerse.
Details of models developed through working groups will be provided in
publications. Source code created through the workshop will be assigned a DOI
and made freely and publicly available using GitHub once results are published.
All other products will be archived at USUs official institutional repository
(DigitalCommons@USU).
Public Affairs at NAU; Fred Love at ISU) to contribute to a multimedia (e.g. print, video, social
media) campaign focused around attracting media attention for the publications emerging
from the workshop. To make summaries available in Spanish, we are disseminating through
Verde Elemental, a digital publication dedicated to promoting and disseminating knowledge in
ecology and conservation in Latin America, of which Beckman is an editor. Teaching
resources are being developed, and Verde Elemental will translate and disseminate in
Spanish.