TY - JOUR
T1 - Navigating translational ecology
T2 - creating opportunities for scientist participation
AU - Hallett, Lauren M.
AU - Morelli, Toni Lyn
AU - Gerber, Leah
AU - Moritz, Max A.
AU - Schwartz, Mark W.
AU - Stephenson, Nathan L.
AU - Tank, Jennifer L.
AU - Williamson, Matthew A.
AU - Woodhouse, Connie A.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the USGS, the National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center, and the DOI Southwest Climate Science Center for workshop support and for funding this Special Issue. We are grateful to C Enquist, G Garfin, and S Jackson for bringing us together to discuss the field of translational ecology; JK Hiers, R Hobbs, C Millar, and K Nydick for their comments; K Flessa for sharing his experiences; K Flessa and F Zamora for providing the photographs shown in Figure 1 and M Trentman for a photograph in Figure 2.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Ecological Society of America
PY - 2017/12
Y1 - 2017/12
N2 - Interest in translational ecology (TE) – a research approach that yields useful scientific outcomes through ongoing collaboration between scientists and stakeholders – is growing among both of these groups. Translational ecology brings together participants from different cultures and with different professional incentives. We address ways to cultivate a culture of TE, such as investing time in understanding one another's decision context and incentives, and outline common entry points to translational research, such as working through boundary organizations, building place-based research programs, and being open to opportunities as they arise. We also highlight common institutional constraints on scientists and practitioners, and ways in which collaborative research can overcome these limitations, emphasizing considerations for navigating TE within current institutional frameworks, but also pointing out ways in which institutions are evolving to facilitate translational research approaches.
AB - Interest in translational ecology (TE) – a research approach that yields useful scientific outcomes through ongoing collaboration between scientists and stakeholders – is growing among both of these groups. Translational ecology brings together participants from different cultures and with different professional incentives. We address ways to cultivate a culture of TE, such as investing time in understanding one another's decision context and incentives, and outline common entry points to translational research, such as working through boundary organizations, building place-based research programs, and being open to opportunities as they arise. We also highlight common institutional constraints on scientists and practitioners, and ways in which collaborative research can overcome these limitations, emphasizing considerations for navigating TE within current institutional frameworks, but also pointing out ways in which institutions are evolving to facilitate translational research approaches.
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U2 - 10.1002/fee.1734
DO - 10.1002/fee.1734
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85036523211
SN - 1540-9295
VL - 15
SP - 578
EP - 586
JO - Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
JF - Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
IS - 10
ER -