HydroEco 2017 Ecohydrology on the Edge: ecology-hydrology-human interactions in a changing world 6th International Multidisciplinary Conference on Hydrology and Ecology University of Birmingham 18-23 June 2017 1 About HydroEco2017 Ecohydrology as a scientific discipline has been emerging from the need to address the interactions and feedbacks between ecological, hydrological, geomorphological and atmospheric processes, and aims to understand and predict fast changing aquatic-terrestrial environments. Over the last decade, the scientific discipline of Ecohydrology has seen rapid technological and conceptual developments. The highly dynamic and often non-linear behaviour of ecohydrological processes pose unique challenges in understanding, monitoring and conserving freshwater ecosystems. Complex process interactions often cause ecohydrological processes to show pronounced temporal dynamics and exhibit marked non-linear behaviour in response to environmental change. Such behaviour manifests itself by the occurrence of distinct thresholds, tipping points or hot moments, periods of enhanced (re)activity and rapid regime shifts; but may also be associated with pronounced spatial heterogeneity, producing locations of enhanced activity or hot spots. The 6th International Multidisciplinary Conference on: Hydrology and Ecology will focus on “Ecohydrology on the edge: ecology-hydrology-human interactions in a changing world” 2 Contents Contents Local Organisers ........................................................................................................................................ 5 International Advisory Board .............................................................................................................. 8 Sessions ......................................................................................................................................................... 9 Conference Programme ........................................................................................................................ 11 Posters .......................................................................................................................................................... 21 Abstracts ..................................................................................................................................................... 27 Keynote Speakers ............................................................................................................................... 27 Oral presentations .............................................................................................................................. 36 S1. Threshold and Tipping Points: Non-linear dynamics (thresholds and tipping points) of ecosystem responses, resilience and adaptation ........................................ 36 S2. Dynamic process interactions at ecohydrological interfaces across spatial and temporal scales (Special session: INTERFACES) .................................................... 45 S3 Multi-stressor interactions and impacts on ecohydrological process dynamics ............................................................................................................................................ 55 S4 Aquatic Ecology - Quantitative analysis of interactions between hydrological and biological processes ............................................................................................................. 64 S5 Linking hydroecology and ecohydraulics: towards a better understanding of interactions between ecosystems, hydraulics and hydrological processes ......... 76 S6 Novel approaches in plant, soil, water atmosphere interactions ....................... 82 S7 Ecohydrology in restoration practice - ecosystem management, engineering and society ........................................................................................................................................ 88 S8. New experimental and modelling methods for investigating groundwater - surface water interactions ......................................................................................................... 99 S9 Ecohydrology interactions with emerging pollutants (incl. microplastics, engineered nanoparticles, pharmaceuticals) ................................................................. 109 S10 Novel sensing and monitoring techniques in hydroecology - from ‘omics’ to distributed sensor networks and real-time ecohydrology ....................................... 114 S11 Forest Ecohydrology ........................................................................................................ 125 S12 Hydroecological process dynamics and nutrient flows in wetlands and riparian zones .............................................................................................................................. 130 3 S13 Cold region Ecohydrology, including alpine ecosystems and cold zones .. 136 S14 Ecohydrology of urban landscapes under change ............................................... 142 S15 Dryland ecohydrology ..................................................................................................... 146 Posters .................................................................................................................................................. 150 Travelling to the venue ...................................................................................................................... 199 1. Conference venue and important places .......................................................................... 199 2. Directions from Birmingham City Centre ......................................................................... 201 3. Directions from Birmingham International Airport .................................................... 201 4. Directions from London Heathrow Airport .................................................................... 202 4 Local Organisers Professor Stefan Krause Prof Stefan Krause is a Professor of Ecohydrology & Biogeochemistry. His research investigates the impacts of global environmental change on hydrological fluxes, biogeochemical cycling and ecohydrological feedback functions in complex landscapes with coupled groundwater-surface water systems. Professor David Hannah Prof David Hannah is a physical geographer with interdisciplinary research interests focusing on complementary themes within hydroclimatology (interface between hydrology-climatology). He is the Director of Research for the College of Life and Environmental Sciences at University of Birmingham. Professor Jonathan Sadler Professor Sadler is a biogeographer and ecologist who focuses on species population and assemblage dynamics in urban and riparian environments. His research involves interdisciplinary science using a combination of detailed field studies and field experimentation. His work emphasizes the links between environmental variability and species responses, with particular emphasis on urbanisation and hydrological disturbance. Professor Alexander Milner Professor Alexander Milner is responsible for the Masters degree in River Environmental Management at University of Birmingham. His research involves river ecosystems in alpine and Arctic environments and he has long term studies in Glacier Bay National Park and Denali National Park in Alaska. Other studies have included how water sources are changing in glacially influenced river systems with climate change and how these changes alter ecological structure and function. Dr Nicholas Kettridge Dr Nick Kettridge specializes in characterizing the ecohydrological resilience of ecosystems to both natural and anthropogenic disturbance. Much of his research focuses on peatlands; understanding the processes that control the provision of key ecosystem services within these environments, and quantifying their response to changing climatic conditions and extreme events such as fire and drought. 5 Professor Greg SambrooK Smith Over the last 20 years Dr Sambrook Smith has been investigating the linkages between river processes and sedimentology at scales ranging from individual pores within a river bed up to km-long bars in some of the World’s largest rivers. Research aims to generate new, generic and quantitative understanding of how rivers function across these scales. Dr MarK Ledger Mark is an ecologist researching environmental change in freshwaters. His research group is focused on understanding how environmental stressors and climate change, especially extreme climatic events such as floods, droughts and heat waves, affect the structure and functioning of aquatic ecosystems. Mark currently leads several NERC-funded research projects and supports a number of doctoral researchers and postdoctoral fellows. He also works actively with a growing network of colleagues in the UK and overseas. Dr Chris Bradley Chris has been a lecturer in Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Birmingham from 1994 and became Senior Lecturer from 2007. Dr Anne Van Loon Dr Anne Van Loon is a Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography at University of Birmingham. Dr Van Loon is a catchment hydrologist and hydrogeologist working on drought. She studies the relationship between climate, landscape/ geology, and hydrological extremes and its variation around the world. She is especially interested in the influence of storage in groundwater, human activities, and cold conditions (snow and glaciers) on the development of drought. Dr Sally Rangecroft Dr Sally Rangecroft