International Workshop on Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems and Global Change

Oct 18, 2024

Coastal wetland ecosystems is known as one of the most productive ecosystems on the Earth, and they are vital to environmental health, sustaining economic development, and preserving biodiversity. They are also playing an increasingly important role in mitigating climate change and environmental degradation. However, coastal wetland ecosystems are facing unprecedented challenges in the context ...

Fisheries Application of eDNA Metabarcoding in Northwest Atlantic

Sep 27, 2024

Dr. Yuan Liu is a Fish Biologist and the Program Leader for environmental DNA (eDNA) at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) under NOAA Fisheries. She holds a Ph.D. in Marine and Atmospheric Sciences from Stony Brook University (2012), along with an M.S. in Environmental Science (2004) and a B.S. in Oceanography (2001), both from Xiamen University, China. Dr. Liu's research is at the ...

Chinese Engineers Forum & China Engineering Pavilion

Sep 18, 2024

ThemeSustainable Environmental & Ecological EngineeringDateSeptember 18-21, 2024VenueKuala Lumpur Convention Centre, MalaysiaTopicswater environment management and water ecological remediationair pollution managementsoil pollution preventiongreen development

Emergent responses to the antibiotic stress in a cross-feeding microbial community

Jun 28, 2024

Xianyi Xiong is a Post-Master’s Researcher and Lab Manager advised by Professor Will Harcombe at the University of Minnesota (USA), where he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. He is an incoming PhD student at MIT. His research lies in the intersection among bacterial systems biology, microbial ecology, and stress biology. His goal is to continue strengthening the link among these fi...

Making the most of blue carbon opportunities

Jan 23, 2024

The conservation and restoration of blue carbon ecosystems including mangroves, seagrass, tidal marshes, seaweed beds, and other ecosystems, offers the potential to mitigate climate change while providing a wide range of ecosystem services to coastal communities. The scientific concepts underlying the blue carbon concept have been established for over a decade with tangible outcomes, particular...

Biodiversity experiments: open questions and future tasks

Nov 13, 2023

Terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems contain a large number of species and provide a large number of ecosystem services, in particular transformation of solar energy and carbon dioxide into biomass, fueling element cycles, soil formation, climate control and more. The role of biodiversity–ecosystem functioning experiments is to test what would happen if the number of species within an ecosystem ...

Dirt-poor soils, pesky parasites and friendly fungi shape plant diversity in south-western Australia

Jun 2, 2023

AbstractSouthwest Australia is a biodiversity hotspot, with the greatest plant diversity on severely phosphorus-impoverished soils. Non-mycorrhizal plant families (e.g., Proteaceae) feature prominently on the poorest soils, and are uncommon on richer soils.The ecological success of Proteaceae on severely impoverished soils can be explained by two traits. Almost all Proteaceae produce cluster ro...

Global Environmental Changes and Green Development

Apr 7, 2023

Erik Solheim is a well-known global leader on environment and development.  He served as Norwegian minister of Environment and International Development from 2005-2012.  During that period, he initiated the global program for conservation of rainforests and brought through  game changing National legislation - among them the Biodiversity Act and legislation to protect Oslo city  forests. He bro...