2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
5/20/2019 | 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | THE EPITOME OF TRANSLATIONAL ECOLOGY – FEEDBACKS BETWEEN BIOASSESSMENT PROGRAMS, SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY, AND ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT | 250 CF
THE EPITOME OF TRANSLATIONAL ECOLOGY – FEEDBACKS BETWEEN BIOASSESSMENT PROGRAMS, SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY, AND ECOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
Sound science is needed to support effective bioassessment programs, but the data collected by these programs can also be used to advance ecological understanding of local and regional patterns in freshwater ecosystems. Historically, research on the macroecology of freshwater invertebrates was hindered by the paucity of spatially extensive observations describing both the distribution of biota and environmental conditions. However, the archiving of data collected in support of bioassessment programs has resulted in millions of records that can be mined both to advance basic ecological discovery and improve inferences about the relative importance of different threats to freshwater ecosystems. In this talk, I describe how data archived by the Utah State University/Bureau of Land Management Bug Lab, the USEPA’s National Aquatic Resources Survey, the USGS’s NAWQA program, and many States have contributed to our understanding of environmental constraints on species distributions, metacommunity processes in streams, the likely effects of climate change on freshwater invertebrates, and the local and regional importance of different historical and emerging threats to freshwater biodiversity. In short, bioassessment programs have been supporting and encouraging translational ecology for over 50 years.
- Multi-stressors
- Biodiversity
- Invertebrate
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Charles Hawkins
(), Utah State University, chuck.hawkins@usu.edu;
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