Hydroecological Responses to Climate Change in Northern Catchments
29th Aug - 1st September 2010, Aviemore, Scotland, UK.
The goal of this North-watch workshop III in Aviemore was to expose each other to the different ways of looking at linkages between hydrology and structural-functional relationships of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems in northern catchments in the context of a changing climate. Our aim is to try and better understand the complex feedback between catchment hydrological response to climatic forcing and the complex feedbacks between landscape and ecosystem response.
Specific Objectives
- What are the structural-functional relationships of different eco-hydrological units within landscapes? How sensitive are these different units to climate and/or land-use changes?
- How do we characterise complex feedbacks between climate, hydrological processes and the response of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
- How can we capture variability and eco-hydrological change in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems? Are there ecologically meaningful indices to link change to hydro-climatic forcing?
- How can we improve the prediction of nonlinearities, thresholds and the likely response of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems?
Programme
Introduction
- Doerthe Tetzlaff: Introduction to the Northwatch International Network
- Chris Soulsby: Introduction to Workshop III
Invited Speaker Presentations
- Klement Tockner (Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, IGB, Berlin): Structure-function relationship in coupled aquatic-terrestrial ecosystems
- Iain Malcolm (Marine Scotland, Freshwater Lab, Pitlochry): In-stream perspective: Influence of hydroclimatic forcing on stream temperatures - role of riparian management on ecosystem response
- Philip Wookey (University of Stirling): Landscape perspective: Dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems in the face of climate and environmental change (importance of ecosystem feedbacks)
- Angela Gurnell (Queen Mary, University of London): Observation of instream ecology: linking hydrology, ecology and fluvial morphology
- Phil Bacon (Marine Scotland, Freshwater Lab, Pitlochry): Modelling the response of aquatic ecosystems to climate change: a Scottish example of Atlantic Salmon
Synthesis
- Jim Buttle: Workshop III Synthesis
Workshop Attendees
Canadian colleagues in deep discussion!
The workshop participants (back, from left to right: Angela Gurnell, Phil Wookey, Hjalmar Laudon,
Chris Soulsby, Jan Seibert, Kevin McGuire, Iain Malcolm, Jeff McDonnell, Laura Kruitbos.
Front row, from left to right: Phil Bacon, Jim Buttle, Sean Carey, Doerthe Tetzlaff, Klement Tockner).
Field Trip Photos
The Allt a' Mharcaidh catchment
The Feshie catchment
The Feshie catchment