Dear Colleagues: We are pleased to announce an Integrative Session for the Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, 18 - 23 May 2014, Portland, OR (http://www.sgmeet.com/jasm2014/). Sponsored by the International Society for River Science, the session invites submissions from all participants in the conference who are studying how modification of rivers has influence physical, chemical, or biological form and function. A description of the session is included below. Contact any of the organizers for additional information. Abstract deadline is 7 February 2014. Abstracts are to be submitted via http://www.sgmeet.com/jasm2014/.
Integrative Session #053 - International Society for River Science: Physical, Chemical, and Biological Changes in Modified Rivers This special session would consist of presentations addressing the impacts of river modification on the physical, chemical, and biological character of within riverine landscapes. A critical element of this session would be presentations that work across the disciplines of ecology, hydrology, and geomorphology. An interdisciplinary approach is essential to the advancement of river science given the growing recognition that changes across the hierarchy of one of these fields has implications to the processes occurring in one or both of the other disciplines. Topic examples would include, but not be limited to impacts of: hydrological changes on river or floodplain geomorphology; loss of lateral connectivity on wetland and floodplain processes; loss of nutrient retention or increased nutrient loading on system processes; hydrological or geomorphological modification on population, community, or ecosystem ecology; and invasive species, including increased success through river modification. Organizers Martin Thoms , University of New England [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Thomas Hein , BOKU Vienna & WasserCluster Lunz [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Michael Delong , Winona State University [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
