H43A:
Advances in Wetland Ecohydrology

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Session ID#: 6376

Session Description:
Ecohydrology is concerned with the interactions and feedbacks within the plant-soil-water-atmosphere continuum. Wetlands have proven to exhibit tremendous ecohydrological regulation of key processes, including peat control of soil hydrology and water table fluctuation, feedbacks between vascular vegetation and evapotranspiration, hydraulic engineering by beaver, and stream water quality buffering. This session aims to highlight recent developments in ecohydrology research of peatlands, marshes, swamps, and riparian and estuarine ecosystems. Presentations focussing on empirical field monitoring, field and laboratory experimentation, remote sensing, modelling, and paleo-studies of plant-water interactions in wetland environments are welcome. The diversity and complexity of wetland ecohydrology requires treatment of relevant processes at the spatial scales from the microcosm to global and temporal scales of instantaneous to millennia. Increased understanding of plant-water dynamics in wetlands is required for preservation and improvement of the valuable services these key ecosystems provide to society, especially under increasing climate and land use change pressures.
OSPA Liaison:  Tim P Duval, University of Toronto Mississauga, Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment, Mississauga, ON, Canada
Chairs:  Tim P Duval, University of Toronto Mississauga, Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment, Mississauga, ON, Canada and Jonathan S Price, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Primary Convener:  Tim P Duval, University of Toronto Mississauga, Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment, Mississauga, ON, Canada
Convener:  Jonathan S Price, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Index Terms:

1803 Anthropogenic effects [HYDROLOGY]
1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1890 Wetlands [HYDROLOGY]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • ES - Earth Surface Processes

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

H43A-01
Quantifying the Impacts of 23-years of Warming and Drying Trends on Peatland/Upland Succession in Central Alberta (33530)
Laura Chasmer, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada, Chris Hopkinson, University of Lethbridge, Geography and Environment, Lethbridge, AB, Canada and Richard M Petrone, University of Waterloo, Geography and Environmental Management, Waterloo, ON, Canada
H43A-02
Hydroclimatic Controls on Peatland CO2 Exchange Following Adjacent Forest Harvesting on the Western Boreal Plain (34170)
Janina Plach, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, Kevin Devito, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Richard M Petrone, University of Waterloo, Geography and Environmental Management, Waterloo, ON, Canada
H43A-03
Trembling Aspen (Populus tremuloides) Transpiration and Recovery Post-fire Disturbance in the Western Boreal Plains of Alberta (34219)
Midori Depante, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, Richard M Petrone, University of Waterloo, Geography and Environmental Management, Waterloo, ON, Canada, Kevin Devito, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Nicholas Kettridge, University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth & Environ. Sciences,, Birmingham, United Kingdom and James Michael Waddington, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
H43A-05
Assessment of the evaporation rates of pools, strings and lawns of a boreal patterned fen (36041)
Alain N Rousseau, Professeur-chercheur titulaire, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Eau Terre Environnement INRS-ETE, Eau Terre Environnement, Quebec City, QC, Canada, Gwenael Carrer, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Eau Terre Environnement INRS-ETE, Quebec City, QC, Canada, Daniel Nadeau, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, Silvio Gumiere, Professor, Université Laval, Soils and Agri-Food Engineering, Québec, QC, Canada, Sylvain Jutras, Université Laval, Québec, QC, Canada and André St-Hilaire, INRS-ETE, Quebec, QC, Canada
H43A-06
The Transport and Hydrological Response of Simulated Wastewater from a Continuous Point Source in a Northern Ribbed Fen (36601)
Colin Patrick Ross McCarter, University of Toronto, Physical and Environmental Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada and Jonathan S Price, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
H43A-07
Analyzing the Impacts of Road Construction on the Successional Trajectory of a Poor Fen in Northern Alberta. (35455)
Emma Bocking, University of Waterloo, Geography and Environmental Management, Waterloo, ON, Canada, Jonathan S Price, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada and David J Cooper, Colorado State University, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Fort Collins, CO, United States
H43A-08
Effective hydraulic properties of unsaturated sphagnum moss and peat (34946)
Tobias Weber1, Sascha Iden1, Benedikt Scharnagl2 and Wolfgang Durner1, (1)Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, (2)UFZ Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle, Soil Physics, Halle, Germany
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