Symposium "Aquatic ecosystems in a dynamic world: research across timescales"

Aquatic ecosystems in a dynamic world: research across timescales

Water bodies across the world are being increasingly influenced by multiple stressors including climate change, pollutants, damming and habitat modification. Together these impacts of the Anthropocene have enormously influenced the ecology, water quality and ecosystem functions of lakes, ponds and rivers. Much of this change happened before the onset of ecological research and, in such cases, palaeolimnology (the analysis of lake sediment cores to reconstruct past ecological and environmental conditions), can provide missing insights. In combination with other methodological approaches such as long-term monitoring, experiments and surveys, long-term investigation of aquatic ecological variability and trajectories of change are vital for informing the possibilities of ecosystem recovery and rehabilitation. This symposium explores how long-term research on aquatic ecosystems can be the key to sustainable future waters. This symposium is associated with the construction of a new Chair in Aquatic Ecosystem Dynamics between the University of Utrecht and Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) and features invited guests from around the world.  

Register here before 10 February to attend the symposium.

This symposium follows the inaugural lecture of Suzanne McGowan on 18 February.