INVESTIGADORES
PERILLO Gerardo Miguel E.
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Understand and adapt to altered energy and mass inputs to freshwater ecosystems: a Pan-American 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:
Congreso; Joint Aquatic Science Meeting, Society for Freshwater Science; 2014
Institución organizadora:
ASLO-PSA=SWS
Resumen:
Climate variability and human activity impose a range of regional hydro‐meteorologic changes on waterflux and storage throughout a watershed and, therefore, on freshwater ecosystems and the servicesthey provide to humanity. Because lakes are integrators of all processes occurring in the watershed andthe lake itself, they reflect these changes in the watershed. and how they have altered natural cyclesand loads in the ecosystem via modifications to energy and mass (Em) inputs and outputs. Consideringthe wide range of climatic, anthropogenic and socioeconomic conditions that span the Americas, ourobjective is to apply the unifying concepts of ecosystem services (ES) and Em fluxes to summarizecurrent ecosystem state in candidate watersheds distributed from Canada to Chile and Argentina. Thisframework will enable the integration of paleolimnological and historical conditions as well as recentmonitoring data into assessments of the stressors and risks across the Americas. The marriage of ES andEm will also enable us incorporate community perceptions and local socio‐economic conditions intoplace‐based strategies for management and mitigation.