Colleagues, For those interested in tropical urban streams, please take a look at our special session in the February ASLO meeting in Puerto Rico. Abstract deadline: October 11.
S65. Urbanization and Its Impacts on Tropical Aquatic Ecosystems With more than half of the world’s human population now living in urban areas, urbanization is now a dominant land use form. In recent years, ecologists have made major advances toward understanding the general impacts that urbanization has on aquatic ecosystems. Our understanding of stream ecosystem response to urbanization was summarized in the “Urban Stream Syndrome” and subsequent publications. However, there is still a major lack of information for certain geographic locations (e.g., tropical streams), types of ecosystem (e.g., estuaries), and on the mechanisms behind observed ecosystem responses to urbanization. This session highlights our current understanding of the effects of urbanization on tropical aquatic ecosystems, including streams and estuaries. Best, Alonso Ramírez Associate Professor / Director El Verde Field Station Institute for Tropical Ecosystem Studies University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus P.O. Box 70377, San Juan, PR 00936-8377 787-764-0000, ext. 7781 http://ites.upr.edu/ramirez/ [email protected]
