报告题目：Climate Change Impacts on Forest Ecohydrology
报告时间：2025年10月16日（周四）10:00-12:00
报告地点：天津大学地科院（第16教学楼）221报告厅
主讲嘉宾：Professor Keith Smettem is widely regarded as a world leader in Ecohydrology and has extensive experience in catchment hydrology, plant water use, irrigation management, water resource assessment and soil physics. He has held many prominent positions, including Research Director of the State Centre for Excellence in Ecohydrology; Head of Environmental Systems Engineering at the University of Western Australia; and Founding Editor in Chief of the leading international journal ‘Ecohydrology’. He is presently an active Research Fellow at Murdoch University Australia and Emeritus Professor at the University of Western Australia. Keith published over 160 books and refereed papers, with over 4000 citations and has recently been a distinguished visiting fellow at Stanford University and a visiting Distinguished Professor at both Oregon State University and The University of British Colombia. Keith was also recently funded by the National Research Foundation of Luxembourg as a visiting international expert, working on issues relating to water quality and development of new environmental sensor systems. He has supervised over 30 PhD and master’s students to completion, many of whom are now with leading international and national agencies.
报告简介：Worldwide, physiological stresses induced by climate change are becoming visible in forest ecosystems. Hydraulic failure in tree xylem vessels may become more common in regions where droughts are predicted to increase, regardless of annual rainfall. Increased maximum temperatures and increasingly strong vapour pressure deficits reinforce the water stress on forests, leading to increased tree mortality and greater fire frequency. Loss of resilience also exposes forests to increased damage from insect and fungal attacks, with widespread tree deaths already observed in many areas. In this seminar I review some key examples of forest ecohydrologic response to climate change and consider how adaptive conservation management can contribute to the protection of ecosystem diversity and water conservation by mitigating the severe negative impacts of climate change.
