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Integrative Ecology of Green Architecture and Blue-Green Infrastructure for the Recovery of Ecosystem Services in Urban Environments

March 18, 2021 @ 11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Integrative Ecology of Green Architecture and Blue-Green Infrastructure for the Recovery of Ecosystem Services in Urban Environments

Dr. Victor Carmona-Galindo, Director of Sustainability and Associate Professor, Biology, University of Detroit-Mercy

Ecosystem services are an integral part of the functional diversity of an ecosystem and by definition improve human health as well as represent a benefit extending from the biodiversity in natural systems. While ecosystem functions serve to cycle biomass and transfer energy in natural systems, urban environments are anthropogenic constructs that inherently contribute to the human footprint and gardenification of nature, ultimately ignoring the sustainability of ecosystem processes and services in favor of the aesthetics of urban greening. The result is a management-intensive model for urban sustainability that is economically limited in its capacity to substitute anthropogenically-interrupted ecosystem functions like biomass and nutrient cycles (e.g. manual removal of invasive species, E. coli blooms, etc.) as well as energy transfers (e.g. mechanically replenishing dunes, daylighting urban rivers, etc.). This presentation will outline methodologies, findings, and recommendations stemming from environmental sustainability initiatives that use integrative ecology to identify ecosystem services that improve plant water-stress in urban gardens, dynamics of fecal indicator bacteria in stormwater-raingardens, pollinator-deserts in urban landscapes, mosquito control in urban aquatic habitats, as well as the survivorship, succession, and nutrient cycling in urban forest habitats.

 

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Date:
March 18, 2021
Time:
11:30 am - 12:30 pm