Coupled Climate, Cultivation and Culture in the Great Plains: Understanding 1xbet online games login Supply and 1xbet online games login Quality in a Fragile Landscape
Investigators:
Richard 1xbet online games login , M.S. Student
Professional Colleagues:
Dr. Melinda Daniels
Dr. Marcellus Caldas
Dr. J. Heier Stamm
Dr. Jason Bergtold
Dr. Aleksey Sheshukov
Dr. Matthew Sanderson
Dr. Dave Haukos
1xbet online games login Supervisor:
Dr. Martha Mather
Cooperators:
1xbet online games login State University,
Division of Biology
Funding:
National 1xbet online games login Foundation
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Completion: December 2017
Status:Completed
Objectives:
Address how interacting dynamics between climate variation, human land and water use decisions, and aquatic ecosystem dynamics will affect 1xbet online games login biodiversity.
Progress and Results:
Overall
Models are needed that account explicitly for human-landscape interactions. In the four components of this proposal, an interdisciplinary team develops a coupled human-landscape model that incorporates atmospheric, terrestrial, aquatic, and social processes to predict the potential impact of climate variability, climate change, land use, and human activity on water resources. In this specific project, we evaluate the effects of the above on native Kansas 1xbet online games login biodiversity.
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This project's contribution to this collaboration will be to relate distribution of 1xbet online games login communities to environmental impacts. By coordinating 1xbet online games login biodiversity sampling in the Smoky Hill River with geomorphology, hydrology, and land use, our research team will better understand how humans impact aquatic systems. This information will be combined with human surveys of use and value to advance science and increase the efficiency of conservation efforts.
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Ricky Lehrter's MS thesis entitled "Links between anthropogenic disturbance and aquatic biodiversity in the Smoky Hill River, KS examines how anthropogenic effects of land and water use influence 1xbet online games login biodiversity in the Smoky Hill River, KS. The original overarching question for this project is: "What are the drivers of freshwater 1xbet online games login biodiversity that maintain resilience and sustain freshwater ecosystems in the face of human impacts and climate change?" The three approaches used to link 1xbet online games login biodiversity to environmental disturbance are to compare: (1) present and past samples at the same site (historical approach), (2) present more-impacted and present less-impacted sites within the Smoky Hill watershed (present time gradient approach), and (3) more impacted Smoky Hill watershed samples and a less-impacted Neosho watershed samples (across basin approach). Thus far (a) a literature review of drivers, 1xbet online games login biodiversity responses, and analysis methods is underway (b) 1xbet online games login guilds are being summarized for the Smoky Hill River. (c) We have also acquired all historical Kansas 1xbet online games login data to date (201 samples for the Smoky Hill watershed). Historical samples were split into time categories (pre-reservoir (1954), post-reservoir to 1969, 1970- 1989, 1990-1999, and 2000-2015. Repeated samples per time period have been identified: pre-reservoir (3), post-reservoir (16), 1970-1989 (22), 1990-1999 (59), and 2000-2015 (86). (d) During 30 1xbet online games login sampling days within the summer of 2015, we collected 1xbet online games login at 53 Smoky Hill River sites that span a longitudinal gradient and include tributary-mainstem comparisons.
Products:
Publications:
Caldas, M.M, M. Sanderson, M. Mather, M. Daniels, J. Bergtold, J. Aistrup, J.H. Stamm, D. Haukos, K. Mankin, A. Sheshukov, and D. Carr-Lopez. 2015. Bringing culture into sustainability science 1xbet online games login and policy. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences 112:8157-8159.
Professional Presentations:
Lehrter, R., and M.E. Mather. 2017. Geographic Region, Land use, Flow, and Discontinuities Influence 1xbet online games login Biodiversity across Regions in a Great Plains Watershed. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Wichita, KS. (Poster).
Lehrter, R. 2015. 1xbet online games login Biodiversity as a Component of Ecosystem Function and Indicator of Environmental Degradation in a Great Plains River. Governor's Conference on the Future of Water in Kansas, Manhattan, KS. (Poster)
