报告题目 一：Ecosystem resilience in a changing world & Physical Geography at Birmingham

报告题目 二：Wetland Ecohydrology

报告   人：Nocolas Kettridge教授

        英国伯明翰大学

时    间：2017年3月14日（周二）上午10:00

地    点：中山大学广州校区东校园环境大楼A206

主     持：王诗忠 副教授

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报告一内容简介：

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.

报告二内容简介：

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.