INVESTIGADORES
PICCOLO Maria Cintia
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Understand and adapt to altered energy and mass inputs to freshwater ecosystems: a PanAmerican study of ecosystem service risk assessment and mitigation.
Autor/es:
HARMON, T.; CONDE, D.; RUSAK, J.; PERILLO, G. M. E.; VELEZ CAICEDO, M.I.; ESCOBAR JARAMILLO, J.H.; PICCOLO M. C.; REID, B. ; LONDON, S.
Lugar:
Portland
Reunión:
Encuentro; Joint Aquatic Science Meeting; 2014
Institución organizadora:
Society for Freshwater Science (SFS), Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)
Resumen:
Climate variability and human activity impose a range of regional hydro‐meteorologic changes on water flux and storage throughout a watershed and, therefore, on freshwater ecosystems and the services they provide to humanity. Because lakes are integrators of all processes occurring in the watershed and the lake itself, they reflect these changes in the watershed. and how they have altered natural cycles and loads in the ecosystem via modifications to energy and mass (Em) inputs and outputs. Considering the wide range of climatic, anthropogenic and socioeconomic conditions that span the Americas, our objective is to apply the unifying concepts of ecosystem services (ES) and Em fluxes to summarize current ecosystem state in candidate watersheds distributed from Canada to Chile and Argentina. This framework will enable the integration of paleolimnological and historical conditions as well as recent monitoring data into assessments of the stressors and risks across the Americas. The marriage of ES and Em will also enable us incorporate community perceptions and local socio‐economic conditions into place‐based strategies for management and mitigation.