October 01, 2021
The RIVEAL project hosted a Special Session entitled “River vegetation, the challenges of management and conservation and their values and ecosystem services” at the 63rd International Association of Vegetation Science Symposium, that took place from the 20th till the 23rd of September 2021. This is a worldwide union of scientists and others interested in theoretical and practical studies of vegetation, which main goals are to facilitate personal contacts among vegetation scientists all over the world and to promote research in all aspects of vegetation science and its applications.
This special session counted with on demand presentations and posters, and five live speakers that talked about different topics under the theme of the special session.
Live speakers:
Francisca Aguiar (Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Portugal) – How regulated flows affect the provision of riparian ecosystem services?
Rui Rivaes (Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Portugal) – Prioritizing the causality of environmental stressors on the quality of riparian vegetation and macro invertebrates.
Alejandro Baladrón (CERIS – Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal) – How can functional traits make plants tolerant to hydropeaking?
André Fonseca (Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Portugal) – Riparian forest connectivity for the provision of Ecosystem Services: the suitability of European Copernicus data for monitoring purposes in the Mediterranean and Central Baltic hydroregions.
Remigiusz Pielech (Department of Forest Biodiversity, Faculty of Forestry, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland) – Plant species richness in riparian forests: Comparison to other forest ecosystems, longitudinal patterns, role of rare species and topographic factors.
On demand presentations:
Rosário Fernandes (Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Portugal) – Effects of hydrological alterations in the riparian carbon stock capacity: understanding the past to predict the future
André Fonseca (Forest Research Centre, School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon, Portugal) – Riparian vegetation potential to support distinct functional faunistic groups and related Ecosystem Services in human-dominated landscape
Marina Makarova (Laboratory of Geography and Vegetation mapping, Komarov Botanical Institute RAS, Russia) – Floodplain vegetation mapping of Northern Dvina and Pinega rivers, Archangelsk region, Russia
Watch the Special Session here: