The opening plenary session at ESA’s Centennial celebration in Baltimore was titled “From LearningLife is Connected to Learning to Live in a Connected—and Crowded—World: Ecology Across theCenturies.” It raised provocative questions about whether we could rise to the environmental challengesthat face us in our increasingly crowded world. The session was organized by James P. Collins and CarolBrewer and combined ideas suggested by Collins, Steward Pickett, and Alan Berkowitz. A runningtheme of the session was the role that ecologists might assume as leaders in meeting the challengesbefore us: could we get ahead of these challenges and grapple with the complexity and rapidity of thechanges already occurring, or will we find ourselves simply chronicling those changes as they unfold?
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机译：在巴尔的摩举行的ESA百年庆典上的开幕全体会议的标题为“从学习生活到学习如何生活在一个互联且拥挤的世界：整个世纪的生态”。它引发了关于我们能否应对日益拥挤的世界中面临的环境挑战的挑衅性问题。本次会议由James P. Collins和CarolBrewer组织，并结合了Collins，Steward Pickett和Alan Berkowitz提出的想法。会议的一个运行主题是生态学家在应对我们面前的挑战中扮演领导者的角色：我们可以应对这些挑战并应对已经发生的变化的复杂性和快速性，还是只是发现自己在记录这些变化时就将它们编入历史展开？
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