6. Water and biosphere: preconditions of survival
Freshwater comprises a very small fraction of the global water pool yet it is the foundation of life in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. It is predicted that climate change together with a growing imbalance among freshwater availability and supply and consumption will alter water resources dramatically. The increasing demands on freshwater resources require an urgent need to link research with sustainable management strategies. This session invites contributions which increase our understanding by studying freshwaters and related ecosystems through monitoring and modelling at different spatio-temporal scales. We also welcome examples of linking research with policies and management of ecosystems.
- convenors: Doerthe Tetzlaff & Tobias Krüger
Program
| Session 6 | Water and biosphere: preconditions of survival (part 1): Water scarcity & water security | |
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Thursday 11.00 - 12.30 room 1.501 |
Convenors: Doerthe Tetzlaff, IGB Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries & Tobias Krüger, Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | |
| Session Chair: Doerthe Tetzlaff, IGB Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries | ||
| Paired event analyses to support sustainable risk management of floods and droughts | ||
| Heidi Kreibich, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences | ||
| Working towards household water security as a cornerstone of sustainable development: A case study in rural Umvoti, South Africa | ||
| Karen Lebek, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin | ||
| “Sky and land merged”: Aerial river management for future water | ||
| Wei Weng, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin | ||
| Session 6 | Water and biosphere: preconditions of survival (part 2): Larger-scale modelling | |
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Thursday 15.30 - 17.00 room 1.501 |
Convenors: Doerthe Tetzlaff, IGB Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries & Tobias Krüger, Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | |
| Session Chair: Tobias Krüger, Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | ||
| Exit Here: Dealing with Aging Dams and Reservoirs | ||
| Henry Hansen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln | ||
| Monitoring and modelling Germany’s largest drinking water reservoir | ||
| Tom Shatwell, Helmhotz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) | ||
| Linking hydrologic and land use change models for more consistent predictions of global change impacts on water resources in India | ||
| Paul Wagner, Kiel University | ||
| Freshwater and biosphere in the Anthropocene: vital links | ||
| Dieter Gerten, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) |
| Session 6 | Water and biosphere: preconditions of survival (part 3): Smaller-scale case studies | |
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Friday 13.30 - 15.00 room 1.501 |
Convenors: Doerthe Tetzlaff, IGB Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries & Tobias Krüger, Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | |
| Session Chair: Tobias Krüger, Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | ||
| Methane and CO2 in Lake Kivu – an Interdisciplinary Investigation in Respect of the Sustainable Development Goals | ||
| Maximilian Schmidt, Universität Heidelberg | ||
| Novel Lake Ecosystems – Biodiversity of Small Lowland Gravel-Pit Lakes and its Relation to Recreational-Fisheries Management | ||
| Robert Nikolaus, IGB Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries | ||
| Preconditions of survival: Removal of trace organics from closed urban water cycles | ||
| Jörg Lewandowski, IGB Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | ||
| Water and nutrient dynamics in East African montane headwater catchments | ||
| Suzanne Jacobs, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen |
| Session 6 | Water and biosphere: preconditions of survival (part 4): Water-biosphere linkages | |
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Friday 15.30 - 16.30 room 1.501 |
Convenors: Doerthe Tetzlaff, IGB Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries & Tobias Krüger, Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | |
| Session Chair: Dieter Gerten, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) | ||
| Identifying multifunctional and sustainable land use scenarios with an ecosystem service index | ||
| Martin Pusch, IGB Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries | ||
| Freshwater biodiversity research from local to global scales | ||
| Sonja Jähnig, IGB Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries |
| Session 6 | Posters | |
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Thursday 17.00 - 18.30 Foyer |
The Drying Up of Lake Poopó in the Bolivian Altiplano as a Result of Multiple Interactions of Different Stressors | |
| Dirk Hoffmann, Bolivian Mountain Institute (BMI) | ||
| Challenges to fisheries advice and management due to stock recovery | ||
| van Gemert, Rob (IGB Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries) | ||
| Growing the Future: the potential of phototrophic microorganisms | ||
| Ralf Steuer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | ||
| Should changes in natural cycles induced by damming impose environmental restrictions to future hydropower optimization? | ||
| Suzana Blesic, Center for Participatory Science, Belgrade & Ca’Foscari University of Venice |