B33D:
The Resilience of Wetland Ecosystems to Multiscale Environmental Changes I


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Session ID#: 59957

Session Description:
Wetlands connect terrestrial landscapes and aquatic ecosystems, and provide important ecosystem services such as flood attenuation, water and carbon storage, shoreline stabilization, and wildlife habitats. However, wetland benefits to people and nature are threatened by rapid environmental change and disturbances. The concept of wetland resilience, which is the ability of wetlands in absorbing and recovering from disturbances to retain their hydrologic, biogeochemical and morphological functions, is useful to quantify the threshold response of wetland processes to human-induced or climatic disturbances. We welcome submissions that highlight the advances in concepts, methods, and applications of wetland hydrologic, biogeochemical, and geomorphologic resilience to rapid environmental change. The studies on quantifying wetland resilience with multiscale models or remote sensing products are particularly encouraged, but studies based on in-situ observations are also equally welcome.
Primary Convener:  Yu Zhang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Pei Xin, Hohai University, Nanjing, China and Abinash Bhattachan, Texas Tech University, Geosciences, Lubbock, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yu Zhang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Chairs:  Yu Zhang, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, United States and Abinash Bhattachan, Texas Tech University, Geosciences, Lubbock, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Pei Xin, Hohai University, Nanjing, China
Co-Organized with:
Biogeosciences, and Hydrology

Cross-Listed:
  • H - Hydrology

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0497 Wetlands [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1030 Geochemical cycles [GEOCHEMISTRY]
1830 Groundwater/surface water interaction [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Assessing salt marsh resilience with sediment fluxes: the critical role of marine sediment inputs (Invited) (352710)
Sergio Fagherazzi1, William Sheppard Kearney1, Alfonso M Jiménez-Robles2, Charles Hopkinson3, Katherine A Castagno4 and Neil K Ganju5, (1)Boston University, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (2)University of Granada, Andalusian Institute for Earth System Research, Granada, Spain, (3)University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, (4)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, United States, (5)U.S. Geological Survey, Woods Hole, United States
Connecting Watershed Factors to Plant Invasion within the Coastal Wetlands of the Great Lakes Basin (446616)
Bailey Ann Hannah1, Anthony D Kendall1, Sherry L Martin2 and David W Hyndman3, (1)Michigan State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States, (2)Michigan State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, United States, (3)University of Texas at Dallas, Department of Geosciences, School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Richardson, United States
Impact of Drought Conditions on Nutrient Removal, Sediment Organic Matter, and Flow Hydraulics in a Treatment Wetland (381218)
Mahsa Izadmehr, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States and Karl J. Rockne, Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
Drivers of Bistability in a Rapidly Submerging Marsh (Invited) (434588)
Matthew L Kirwan, William & Mary's VIMS & Batten School, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States, Orencio Duran Vinent, Texas A&M University College Station, Ocean Engineering, College Station, TX, United States, Glenn R Guntenspergen, USGS, Laurel, MD, United States, Joshua D. Himmelstein, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, United States, Lennert Schepers, Flanders Marine Institute, Ostend, Belgium and Stijn Temmerman, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Impacts of Elevated CO2 and Whole Ecosystem Warming on Photosynthesis and Respiration of Two Ericaceous Shrubs in a Northern Peatland (448218)
Eric J Ward1,2, Jeff Warren3, Mirindi Eric Dusenge4, Danielle Way5, Stan Wullschleger6, Anthony W King1 and Paul J Hanson7, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Lafayette, LA, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (4)Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, (5)University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, (6)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, United States, (7)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Hydro-geomechanical feedback on tidal marsh resilience (439021)
Claudia Zoccarato1, Pietro Teatini2, Luigi Tosi3 and Cristina Da Lio3, (1)Università degli Studi di Padova, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Padova, Italy, (2)University of Padova, Department of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Padova, Italy, (3)CNR Institute for Marine Science, Venice, Italy
Resilience to hydrologic extremes in distinct wetland systems (448039)
James B. Heffernan, Duke University, Nicholas School of Environment, Durham, NC, United States

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