resilienceSci on Twitter- resilienceSci: RT @sthlmresilience: Water in the #anthropocene: a global overview. New video via collaborative project Welcome to the Anthropocene: https:… May 21, 2013
- resilienceSci: Reading "Happiness is greater in natural environments" paper using phone app monitoring of subjective wellbeing http://t.co/2xb2nMikRs May 21, 2013
- resilienceSci: Future Earth research to enable "justice and equity for all peoples in a world of ecological resilience" O’Riordan in http://t.co/W5fO1S6uFR May 21, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @christofab: New Special Issue of Ecology&Society: complexity thinking in southern Africa http://t.co/SQQEsBA8Es May 21, 2013
- resilienceSci: Reading "Six attributes of social resilience" new paper by Maclean et al in Journal of Env. Planning & Management http://t.co/kpoUTKroZi May 21, 2013
- resilienceSci: @owengaffney @GenAnthropocene And here's my former McGill colleague Bernhard Lehner's 200 yrs of world dam data https://t.co/dO4721U8U4 May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: @owengaffney @GenAnthropocene Here's James Syvitski in 2011 of 200 yrs of USA dam construction http://t.co/qDj1nEpU9d May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @erleellis: Abstract time for the 2014 Global Land Project Open Science Meeting in Berlin http://t.co/dn7Wo8I5y8 May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Reading UNEP's: #City-Level DeCoupling-urban resource flows & the governance of infrastructure #transitions http://t.co/9B3IFBoJ5R May 20, 2013
- resilienceSci: Agricultural regime shift in Texas: long term aquifer depletion+drought= loss of vast areas of farm land http://t.co/fsYyuaJxD5 #resilience May 20, 2013
Tag Archives: eutrophication
Resilience Theory in Colombia
http://twitter.com/vgalaz Does resilience thinking have any impact at all on the ground? These two very interesting examples came in via Lorena Franco Vidal at the NGO Fundación Humedales de Colombia. In January of this year, the mentioned NGO decided to initiate … Continue reading
Nitrogen deposition making lakes more regulated by phosphorus
Nitrogen deposition is increased the extent to which lake algal populations are regulated by phosphorus, shifting lake food webs. Because, the patterns of human amplification of nitrogen and phosphorus trasport are different this should drive different patterns in lakes in … Continue reading
Dead Ahead: Similar Early Warning Signals of Change in Climate, Ecosystems, Financial Markets, Human Health
What do abrupt changes in ocean circulation and Earth’s climate, shifts in wildlife populations and ecosystems, the global finance market and its system-wide crashes, and asthma attacks and epileptic seizures have in common? According to a paper published this week in … Continue reading
Posted in Regime Shifts, Vulnerability
Tagged anthropocene, climate change, eutrophication, financial crisis, Martin Scheffer, resilience
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Algal Bloom along the Coast of China
There has been a lot of news coverage of the large coastal algal bloom at China’s Olympic sailing site in Qingdao. The Chinese government claims the bloom is now under control. NASA’s Earth Observatory has published some remote sensed images … Continue reading
Posted in Regime Shifts, Visualization
Tagged algal, China, eutrophication, hypoxia, MODIS, Qingdao
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Regime shifts in the Gulf of Mexico
Eugene Turner, Nancy Rabalais, and Dubravko Justic‘s recent article Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia: Alternate States and a Legacy (Env. Sci. Tech., 2008 42(7) 2323–2327) suggests that benthic carbon in the coastal benthic may be a critical slow variable regulating coastal … Continue reading
Posted in Regime Shifts
Tagged agriculture, dead zone, Dubravko Justic, Eugene Turner, eutrophication, Gulf of Mexico, hypoxia, Louisiana, Nancy Rabalais
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Climate change amplifies eutrophication
Hans Paerl and Jef Huisman have a perspective article in Science that reviews how climate change may promote blooms of cyanobacteria Blooms Like It Hot (320 (5872): 57 ): Nutrient overenrichment of waters by urban, agricultural, and industrial development has … Continue reading
Posted in Greenlash
Tagged agriculture, climate change, cyanobacteria, eutrophication, Hans Paerl, Jef Huisman, water
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Nitrogen transfer from sea to land via commercial fisheries
Roxanne Maranger an ecologist at the University of Montreal and other have a neat paper in Nature Geoscience Nitrogen transfer from sea to land via commercial fisheries that shows that commercial fishing removed substantial amounts of nitrogen from coastal oceans. … Continue reading
Posted in Ecosystem services, Greenlash
Tagged eutrophication, fisheries, nitrogen, Roxanne Maranger
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Mapping Coastal Eutrophication
Current industrial agricultural practices produce a tradeoff between agricultural production and the quality of coastal ecosystems, because agricultural fertilizers that increase crop yields lead to the creation of low oxygen hypoxic areas in areas which receive a lot of nutrient … Continue reading
Posted in Ecosystem services, Greenlash, Regime Shifts, Visualization
Tagged eutrophication, map, tradeoff, WRI
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Mapping anoxic zones – pt 2
Global International Waters Assessment is a systematic assessment of the environmental conditions and problems in large transboundary waters, comprising marine, coastal and freshwater areas, and surface waters as well as ground waters. Involving over 1,500 expert it has assessed 66 … Continue reading