H12D:
Ecological and Hydrological Resistance and Resilience: Emerging Understanding from Interactions at Multiple Scales I


Session ID#: 10641

Session Description:
The physical structure of the landscape can increase the capacity to withstand (resistance) and the ability to recover from (resilience) environmental change in the form of altered climate or land cover.  Identifying systems that are resistant and resilient to altered ecohydrological function is critical to focusing management efforts and engineering sustainable systems.  The key challenges in this effort are 1) develop theories and tools to quantify ecohydrological resistance and resilience and 2) identify processes and attributes that enhance ecohydrological resistance and resilience.  In this session, we invite contributions that use theoretical, observational, or modeling approaches to address these key research challenges.  We also welcome case studies demonstrating the effects of varying ecohydrological resistance at the watershed to continental scales.
Primary Convener:  Charles R. Lane, Environmental Protection Agency Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States
Convener:  Claire Ruffing, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Chairs:  Adrian Adam Harpold, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States and Pamela L Sullivan, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Corvallis, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Charles R. Lane, Environmental Protection Agency Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0429 Climate dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0495 Water/energy interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1836 Hydrological cycles and budgets [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Ecosystem Processes at the Watershed Scale: Stability and Resilience of Catchment Spatial Structure and Function to Disturbance (Invited) (59875)
Lawrence E Band, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Progress in the identification of catchments with co-existent multiple steady states and finite resilience (Invited) (60617)
Timothy J Peterson, Monash University, Department of Civil Engineering, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Andrew William Western, University of Melbourne, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, Parkville, VIC, Australia, Mark Andrew Thyer, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia and Andrew James Frost, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia
Patterns of Hydrologic Sensitivity to Climate in the Western US: Implications for Future Predictions (Invited) (60458)
Safeeq Khan, University of California Merced, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Merced, CA, United States and Gordon E. Grant, Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States
Exploring Resilience of Canadian Rivers to Climate Change (Invited) (60834)
Irena F Creed1, Aleksey Paltsev2, Francesco Accatino3, David A. Aldred4, Junting Guo3, Bernhard Lehner5 and Camille Ouellet Dallaire6, (1)University of Western Ontario, Department of Biology, London, ON, Canada, (2)University of Saskatchewan, School of Environment and Sustainability, Saskatoon, ON, Canada, (3)University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, (4)University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (5)McGill University, Department of Geography, Montreal, QC, Canada, (6)McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Biodiveristy and Stability of Aboriginal Salmon Fisheries in the Fraser River Watershed (Invited) (66441)
Holly K. Nesbitt and Jonathan Moore, Simon Fraser University, Resource and Environmental Management, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Systemic and intensifying drought induces collapse and replacement of native fishes: a time-series approach (Invited) (70336)
Albert Ruhi, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Julian D Olden, University of Washington, School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States and John L Sabo, Arizona State University, Future H2O, Knowledge Enterprise Development, Tempe, United States; Arizona State University, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Tempe, AZ, United States
The contribution of reserves and anthropogenic habitat for functional connectivity and resilience of ephemeral wetland networks (Invited) (80076)
Craig R Allen1, Daniel Uden1, David Angeler2 and Michelle Hellman1, (1)Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, School of Natural Resources, Lincoln, NE, United States, (2)Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Biogeochemical responses of arctic hillslopes to storms and seasonal thaw (Invited) (76124)
Tamara Harms, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States

See more of: Hydrology