List or Research Questions developed as part of The Future of Synthesis in Ecology and Environmental Science Virtual workshop (February 17th & 18th, 2021)

Here is the list of research questions and themes that we, as members of the research community, developed to begin to prioritize the future synthesis needs in ecology and environmental science. To develop these priorities, we convened a virtual workshop at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) on Feb 17-18, 2021, with 127 participants across career stages, institutions, backgrounds, and geographies which were selected through an application process (see Halpern et al. 2022, Appendix S1). Participants were drawn from ecology and environmental sciences and largely identified as natural scientists. We asked workshop participants to anonymously identify key synthesis questions in ecology and environmental science, and the challenges and innovations needed to answer those questions. Participants proposed ideas or questions in pre-workshop brainstorming sessions; added and upvoted questions online; and worked in breakout teams during the workshop to refine upvoted questions into lists of top three questions. These final lists were then grouped into themes by the 12-person steering committee and discussed at length by the workshop participants.

本列表收录了研究共同体成员为梳理生态学与环境科学领域未来综合研究需求优先级而拟定的一系列研究问题与主题。为确立上述优先级，我们于2021年2月17日至18日在国家生态分析与合成中心（National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, NCEAS）举办了一场线上研讨会，参会者共127名，涵盖不同职业阶段、机构、学术背景与地域，所有参会者均通过申请流程遴选产生（详见Halpern等人2022年发表的附录S1）。参会者均来自生态学与环境科学领域，且绝大多数为自然科学研究者。本次研讨会要求参会者匿名提出生态学与环境科学领域的关键综合研究问题，以及解答这些问题所需攻克的挑战与创新方向。参会者首先在会前头脑风暴环节提出相关构想与问题，随后在线上平台对已有问题进行补充与点赞；研讨会期间则以分组小组形式开展工作，将获点赞的问题优化梳理为各小组的三大核心问题清单。随后，由12人组成的指导委员会将各小组提交的最终问题清单归类整合为若干主题，并由全体参会者进行充分讨论。