| Session Details | |
| Section | BG - Biogeosciences |
| Session Title | Land Use and Climate Impacts on Fluvial Systems (LUCIFS-ASIA) |
| Main Convener | Prof. David Higgitt (University of Nottingham Ningbo, China) |
| Co-convener(s) | Prof. Robert Wasson (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Prof. Alan D Ziegler (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Dr. Junjiro Negishi (Hokkaido University, Japan) |
| Session Description | Rivers act as conduits for transferring sediment, carbon and nutrients from terrestrial sources to the coastal shelf. This role has motivated geoscientists to explore a number of issues concerning quantification of sediment flux and denudation rates and the estimation of biogeochemical budgets. The functioning of river basins is impacted by both natural and human induced environmental change. In many parts of the world, but in Asia in particular, current and future changes in land use act upon catchments profoundly affected by past human activity. Unpicking the history of human-induced changes has implications for large scale geochemical cycles and, in turn, for the functioning of aquatic ecosystems. The aim of this session is to explore the impacts of environmental change on river basins, with particular attention to Asian rivers where the magnitude of human impact through land use change and water resource management has increased rapidly. Land Use and Climate Impacts on Fluvial Systems (LUCIFS) is an initiative under PAGES (Post Global Changes) Core Project of the IGBP. |