(SCOPE workshop on Landscape boundaries: Consequences for biotic diversity and ecological flows): Foreign trip report, December 12--15, 1988
This report describes the foreign travel of R.H. Gardner of the Environmental Sciences Division (ESD), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), who attended the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) workshop, ''Landscape Boundaries: Consequences for Biotic Diversity and Ecological Flows,'' at the SCOPE headquarters in Paris, France. R.H. Gardner was invited by SCOPE, which paid expenses excluding salary, to participate in the presentation and discussion of the theoretical and empirical evidence of boundary effects on ecosystem dynamics. Ecotones, the transition zones between landscape elements, appear important in mediating the structure and functioning of ecological systems. The participants of the workshop represented a diverse array of scientists; they were invited to synthesize existing information, formulate theory, and develop management strategies. The Paris meeting concentrated on the theoretical and empirical means of measuring ecotone effects and the possible climate-mediated change in the structure and functioning of ecotones.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84OR21400
- OSTI ID:
- 5704101
- Report Number(s):
- ORNL/FTR-3153; ON: DE89017368
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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