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SYMPOSIUM

Global Change and the Function and Distribution of Wetlands

     Organized by Beth Middleton (beth_middleton@usgs.gov),
National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, LA

Sponsored by the Global Change Ecology Section of SWS


Confirmed Speakers


Ellen Hartig, New York City Department of Parks, Natural Resources Group, New York, NY (ellen.hartig@parks.nyc.gov); Sea level rise vs. other stressor impacts on salt marsh submergence in New York City and vicinity

Till Kleinebecker, Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany; East/west gradients in peat chemistry and vegetatiobn patterns in pmbrotrophic bogs in the southernmost tip of South America

Hojeong Kang, Yonsei University (hj_kang@yonsei.ac.kr); Global patterns of biogeochemistry in wetlands

Andy Nyman, Louisiana State University (jnyman@lsu.edu); Four scenarios of the spatial extent of coastal marsh to global sea-level rise

Beth Middleton, National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, LA

Ben LePage, URS Corporation (ben_lepage@urscorp.com); Global warming and the return of forested wetlands to the polar landscape

Karen McKee, USGS National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, LA (karen_mckee@usgs.gov); Can elevated CO2 decrease vulnerability of coastal wetlands to sea-level rise?

 

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