TY - JOUR
T1 - Linking molecular insight and ecological research
AU - Jackson, Robert B.
AU - Linder, C. Randal
AU - Lynch, Michael
AU - Purugganan, Michael
AU - Somerville, Shauna
AU - Thayer, Susan S.
N1 - Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge support from NSF (IBN-0129616 to R.B.J. and C.R.L.) and from USDA, the National Institute of Global Environmental Change/DOE, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. We especially thank participants of the NSF-sponsored workshop Linking Molecular Insights and Ecological Research (August 2001) who co-authored the report on which some of this paper is based, including D. Ackerly, F. Assaad, C. Field, L. Jackson, T. Juenger, R. Mauricio, H. Mooney, A. Schmitt, C. Somerville, V. Walbot, and J. Verbeke (NSF observer). We also thank participants of an earlier symposium Physiological ecology: linking the organism to scales above and below (J.S. Coleman, T.E. Dawson and R.B. Jackson, organizers, Ecological Society of America 2000). D. Robinson, T. Mitchell-Olds and two anonymous reviewers provided helpful suggestions.
PY - 2002/9/1
Y1 - 2002/9/1
N2 - Significant environmental challenges, including the genetic and physiological effects of environmental pollutants, the rapid spread of diseases and invasive species, the release of transgenic organisms and global climate change, affect our daily lives and the sustainability of ecosystems. Managing these environmental problems will require new approaches that span the biology of genes, organisms, populations, communities and ecosystems. In parallel with these practical concerns is the basic need to study gene functions in their natural context. The Arabidopsis 2010 project, for example, seeks to understand the functions of all 25 000 Arabidopsis genes within a decade but, to do so, we must also understand the role of the environment in determining gene function. A new priority is evident - understanding the interplay of molecular mechanisms with organismal and ecosystem biology. Combining genomic and ecological research perspectives will answer crucial unresolved questions, but will require significant new multidisciplinary resources, infrastructure and training.
AB - Significant environmental challenges, including the genetic and physiological effects of environmental pollutants, the rapid spread of diseases and invasive species, the release of transgenic organisms and global climate change, affect our daily lives and the sustainability of ecosystems. Managing these environmental problems will require new approaches that span the biology of genes, organisms, populations, communities and ecosystems. In parallel with these practical concerns is the basic need to study gene functions in their natural context. The Arabidopsis 2010 project, for example, seeks to understand the functions of all 25 000 Arabidopsis genes within a decade but, to do so, we must also understand the role of the environment in determining gene function. A new priority is evident - understanding the interplay of molecular mechanisms with organismal and ecosystem biology. Combining genomic and ecological research perspectives will answer crucial unresolved questions, but will require significant new multidisciplinary resources, infrastructure and training.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0169-5347(02)02571-5
DO - 10.1016/S0169-5347(02)02571-5
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:0036718503
SN - 0169-5347
VL - 17
SP - 409
EP - 414
JO - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
JF - Trends in Ecology and Evolution
IS - 9
ER -