3月14日（周二）上午10:00 Prof. Nocolas Kettridge2017年學術報告之五“Ecosystem resilience in a changing world & Physical Geography at Birmingham”

報告題目 一：Ecosystem resilience in a changing world & Physical Geography at Birmingham

報告題目 二：Wetland Ecohydrology

報告   人：Nocolas Kettridge教授

        英國伯明翰大學

時    間：2017年3月14日（周二）上午10:00

地    點：太阳集团app首页廣州校區東校園環境大樓A206

主     持：王詩忠 副教授

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報告一内容簡介：

Water is a major research theme at Birmingham. We are developing a supradisciplinary science base that utilises cutting-edge field, laboratory and modelling approaches. By building on core strengths in ecohydrology and blending these with skills across engineering and the social sciences, we address key water-related challenges for a changing environment. Dr Kettridge’s research explores the resilience of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem services to both natural and anthropogenic disturbance. This resilience is controlled by a complex array of interconnected feedback mechanisms that transcend the traditional disciplines of ecology, hydrology, terrestrial and aquatic biogeochemistry and micro-meteorology and propagate across both spatial and temporal scales.

報告二内容簡介：

Wetlands are an essential global carbon store and water resource, storing five times more carbon than the Amazonia rainforest and providing an important source of drinking water. This module studies the hydrological processes that control these critical ecosystems. The module examines how wetland hydrology is characterised, investigating evapotranspiration, ground water and unsaturated moisture dynamics within these environments. It showshow these processes impact wetland carbon dynamics and the wider catchment hydrology. Further, interactions between wetlands ecological and hydrological processes are explored and the vulnerability of these environments to increasing wildfire activity under a changing climate is assessed.