Extreme event ecology needs proactive funding

Patrick, Christopher J.; Hensel, Enie; Kominoski, John S.; Stauffer, Beth; McDowell, W. H.

doi:10.1002/fee.2569

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“…Typical or unusual antecedent conditions could also confound postdisturbance analyses, including misinterpretation of the resistance−resilience framework when applied to short-term analyses. All 3 of these reasons were used to justify a call for a network of sentinel sites to monitor and measure ecosystem responses to catastrophic events across the globe (Hogan et al 2020, Patrick et al 2022a. The current work supports this idea because it has demonstrated that short-term responses must be viewed in the context of long-term dynamics.…”

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Benthic infauna are resistant and resilient to hurricane disturbance

Montagna

2023

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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Hurricanes disturb marine ecosystems by abrupt changes in storm-surge, erosion, freshwater inflow, material loads, or water quality. Hurricane Harvey (25 August 2017) was a Category 4 storm that entered the south Texas, USA, coast and produced a large flood in San Antonio Bay. Benthic abundance, biomass, and diversity have been measured quarterly at 4 stations beginning in 2004. From July to October 2017, macrobenthos decreased to near zero, likely because salinity and dissolved oxygen approached zero. A bivalve mollusk recruitment event began within 8 mo after the storm and continued to July 2018. These short-term responses showed that benthic communities were initially devastated but recovered in less than 1 yr, indicating resilience. However, modeling based on a 13 yr time series yielded the same trend in community metrics, suggesting that benthos would have declined in fall and increased in spring with or without the storm. The long-term results indicate that seasonal dynamics in benthos provide some resistance as well as resilience to storm disturbance. Storms occur at stochastic geological time scales and shape evolutionary history such that they likely do not cause an enduring, devastating disturbance to benthic communities.

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Benthic infauna are resistant and resilient to hurricane disturbance

Montagna

2023

Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.

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A call for strategic water-quality monitoring to advance assessment and prediction of wildfire impacts on water supplies

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Alpers²,

Anderson³

et al. 2023

Front. Water

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Wildfires pose a risk to water supplies in the western U.S. and many other parts of the world, due to the potential for degradation of water quality. However, a lack of adequate data hinders prediction and assessment of post-wildfire impacts and recovery. The dearth of such data is related to lack of funding for monitoring extreme events and the challenge of measuring the outsized hydrologic and erosive response after wildfire. Assessment and prediction of post-wildfire surface water quality would be strengthened by the strategic monitoring of key parameters, and the selection of sampling locations based on the following criteria: (1) streamgage with pre-wildfire data; (2) ability to install equipment that can measure water quality at high temporal resolution, with a focus on storm sampling; (3) minimum of 10% drainage area burned at moderate to high severity; (4) lack of major water management; (5) high-frequency precipitation; and (6) availability of pre-wildfire water-quality data and (or) water-quality data from a comparable unburned basin. Water-quality data focused on parameters that are critical to human and (or) ecosystem health, relevant to water-treatment processes and drinking-water quality, and (or) inform the role of precipitation and discharge on flow paths and water quality are most useful. We discuss strategic post-wildfire water-quality monitoring and identify opportunities for advancing assessment and prediction. Improved estimates of the magnitude, timing, and duration of post-wildfire effects on water quality would aid the water resources community prepare for and mitigate against impacts to water supplies.

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Extreme event ecology needs proactive funding

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Benthic infauna are resistant and resilient to hurricane disturbance

Benthic infauna are resistant and resilient to hurricane disturbance

A call for strategic water-quality monitoring to advance assessment and prediction of wildfire impacts on water supplies

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