Luke Ramsey-Wiegmann, PhD student at the School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, will present “A Portrait of Changing Community Composition in Urban Wetlands of the Salt River”.
The Salt River has sustained urban life in the Phoenix area for 1500 years, but following its complete diversion for urban and agricultural uses, the historic riverbed has been mostly dry. Yet in a few reaches of the river, human activity has returned water to the riverbed—both intentionally and accidentally. The Central Arizona–Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research program has monitored plant and animal communities in several of these urban wetlands since 2012 to understand how urbanization, climate change and land management choices shape ecological communities. Luke Ramsey-Wiegmann combines ecological analysis with art (print and papermaking) to explore how different approaches to riparian stewardship shape ecosystems. Join Luke to look four of these case studies—remnant, accidental, restored and rehabilitated wetlands—to examine how their biodiversity has changed over the past decade and what this means for urban riparian stewardship.
Please RSVP to [email protected]. Zoom address provided upon registration, if requested.
Thursday, October 10, 2024
5:30-6:30 p.m.
Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center
734 W. Alameda Dr
Tempe, AZ 85282
The Speaker Series is co-sponsored by the Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center, Arizona State University
