Speaker: Ms. Liat Portner
Abstract:
Hawaiʻi has a long history of recognizing the relationship between water and natural resource management. However, in the face of ongoing land cover changes, these connections are changing in unknown ways. The discipline of ecohydrology provides us with the tools to examine the interactions between hydrologic flow and provides frameworks for predicting how water resources may change under various land cover scenarios. In this seminar, I will review key ecohydrologic flows and the major agents of land cover change in Hawaiʻi, as well as present the results from my master’s thesis. That project focused on the impacts of plant invasion by strawberry guava in the leeward Koʻolau mountains on Oʻahu through measurements of transpiration. Understanding the ecohydrological impacts of land cover changes is a critical component of natural resource management and future work is needed to eludicate impacts of various land cover change scenarios.
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