91st Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science: Proceedings

Proceedings of the 91st Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science, held at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, May 22-24, 2013

Abstracts of Papers, 89th Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science, May 25-27, 2011, University of Richmond, Richmond VA

Full abstracts of the 89th Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science, May 25-27, 2011, University of Richmond, Richmond V

Abstracts of Papers, 88th Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science

Full list of Abstracts from the 88th Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science, May 20 - 21, 2010, James Madison University Harrisonburg, V

Water, Fish, and Fire: Interdisciplinary Research on Ecosystem Services and Climate Adaptation

Ecosystem services, or benefits from the environment, are plentiful and vary from place to place. Human activities and climate change have impacted these services in every region of the world. This dissertation explores multiple ecosystem services, from water quality improvement to provisioning of fish and habitat, in multiple and international contexts. The first chapter synthesizes the literature on stormwater management and ecosystem services, finding that research at this intersection has provided many parcel-level studies and frameworks for implementing green infrastructure. The second chapter extends the stormwater management literature by quantifying the impacts of green infrastructure on water quantity and quality at the watershed scale, showing that various amounts of green stormwater infrastructure lead to reduction in peak flow and water quality improvements via reductions in total phosphorus loadings. The third chapter contributes to our understanding of fire trends in the Intermountain West, the economic impacts of fire, and how fire managers are adapting their actions and policies.The final chapter extends this dissertation to the Lower Mekong Basin, which is experiencing heavy fishing pressure that threatens the livelihoods and food security for millions in the Tonle Sap system of Cambodia. The results show that changes in timing, duration, and magnitude of flows from hydropower development pose risks for many migratory fish in this region. With interdisciplinary approaches, these chapters have led to a multi-faceted study of ecosystem services

Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Southeast Asia: Innovations and Policies for Mountainous Areas

Sustainable Development; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Agricultur

Advances in Sustainable River Management

The main objective of this Special Issue is to contribute in understanding and provide science-based knowledge, new ideas/approaches and solutions in sustainable river management, to improve water management policies and practices following different environmental requirements aspects

Impacts and effects of ocean warming on intertidal rocky habitats.

• Intertidal rocky habitats comprise over 50% of the shorelines of the world, supporting a diversity of marine life and providing extensive ecosystem services worth in the region of US$ 5-10 trillion per year. • They are valuable indicators of the impacts of climate change on the wider marine environment and ecosystems. • Changes in species distributions, abundance and phenology have already been observed around the world in response to recent rapid climate change. • Species-level responses will have considerable ramifications for the structure of communities and trophic interactions, leading to eventual changes in ecosystem functioning (e.g. less primary producing canopy-forming algae in the North-east Atlantic). • Whilst progress is made on the mitigation1 required to achieve goals of a lower-carbon world, much can be done to enhance resilience to climate change. Managing the multitude of other interactive impacts on the marine environment, over which society has greater potential control (e.g. overfishing, invasive non-native species, coastal development, and pollution), will enable adaptation1 in the short and medium term of the next 5-50 years