1) The document reviews evidence that the Earth's biosphere may be approaching a planetary-scale critical transition or "tipping point" due to human influences altering the global ecosystem in unprecedented ways.
2) Past examples of planetary-scale state shifts, like mass extinctions and the last ice age, coincided with dramatic global changes to climate and atmospheric chemistry. The current human-driven changes to the biosphere through activities like habitat loss, climate change, and pollution exceed the rates and magnitudes of past planetary changes.
3) Detecting early warning signs of critical transitions through monitoring things like recovery from perturbations could help forecast potential state shifts and minimize biological surprises, but assessing these signs on a global scale remains challenging. Address
The document summarizes evidence that the Earth's biosphere may be approaching a planetary-scale critical transition or "tipping point" due to human influence, similar to transitions seen in the past that changed the state of the biosphere abruptly and irreversibly. It reviews how localized ecological systems can experience abrupt shifts between alternative stable states when critical thresholds are crossed. It argues that improved forecasting is needed to detect early signs of such global-scale critical transitions, understand how global changes trigger local effects, and address the human-caused root drivers of environmental change in order to minimize unwanted biological surprises and prevent a global state shift.
Mumby consequences of ecological, evolutionary and biogeochemical uncertainty...Loretta Roberson
The document discusses the complexity in predicting coral reef responses to climate stressors like temperature and ocean acidification. It presents two models examining community interactions and biochemical feedbacks between corals and the environment. Scenarios altering the stress impacts on different species showed predictions are sensitive to uncertainties. Biogeochemical coupling between corals and water further complicates predictions. The conclusion is that simple projections of reef responses to climate change are dangerous, and more studies considering multiple stressors and species are needed.
Master's research proposal presentation to the department of Horticulture and Crop Science at The Ohio State University.
Abstract: Chile peppers (Capsicum annuum), which grow in southern Mexico on a environmental gradient from warm and humid coastal areas to the cool, dry highlands, present a unique opportunity to study the range of environmental tolerance and adaptation. Understanding how chile peppers have adapted to local conditions will provide insight into the importance of specific environmental factors in organizing diversity across the landscape, and highlight traits with potential for future crop improvement. Over recent years, our international research team has sampled more than 200 plants from wild, semi-wild and domesticated populations across southern Mexico. Seed from these original collections will undergo one generation of increase in the greenhouse to eliminate maternal environmental effects in seeds used for planned phenotyping experiments. Genome-wide genotyping (GBS) will be conducted on these parent plants. I will conduct two experiments aimed at assessing short-term and long-term resistance to abiotic stress. I will study short-term resistance to drought and heat stress in seedlings by overlaying factorial environmental treatments (simulating the interaction between cool highland/warm lowland temperatures and moist coastal/drier inland environments of Oaxaca, Mexico) onto chile pepper accessions from our collection. I will assess long-term (i.e. full life cycle) drought resistance by comparing the effect of a field capacity treatment with an empirically determined water stress treatment across accessions in factorial combination. Habitat drought stress indices based on the Thornthwaite potential evapotranspiration (PET) model and the Hamon estimator will be assessed as drought resistance predictors. Using a genome wide association study (GWAS) approach, I will identify significant associations between genetic markers and observed values of gas exchange, as well as plant morphology, growth characteristics and overall fitness. Information gathered through this study will provide evidence for the genetic basis of both adaptive variation and phenotypic plasticity, therefore furthering the understanding of genetic diversity in chile peppers.
This document discusses the problem of pattern and scale in ecology over the past 20 years. Some key points:
- Major advances have helped connect ecological patterns to theory and vice versa, and recognize the importance of scale in predictions.
- Technological revolutions in computing, molecular biology, sensing, and information sharing have driven radical changes in ecology.
- Research is increasingly focusing on coupling ecological and evolutionary timescales, the influence of evolution on ecosystems, integrating organism biology and ecology through networks, and understanding spatial patterns across scales.
- Studies on rotifers, algae, Darwin's finches and guppies show evolution can impact populations and ecosystems on ecological timescales. This challenges the traditional view that
This document discusses two systems that utilize plants and associated soil microbes to both produce food crops and clean air and water in tightly sealed environments like spacecraft.
The first system involves constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment. Constructed wetlands use wetland plants and microbes to purify wastewater of nutrients and pollutants. The treated water can then be used to irrigate food crops. Constructed wetlands were shown to effectively treat wastewater inside the sealed Biosphere 2 facility.
The second system involves using plants and their root zone microbes, or soil biofilters, to purify indoor air of pollutants. Research demonstrated that common houseplants and soil beds can remove volatile organic
1) The success of assisted colonization and gene flow conservation strategies depends on how plant species respond to changes in temperature and photoperiod across their life cycles.
2) A study exposed seeds from northern and southern populations of an annual plant, Chamaecrista fasciculata, to ambient and elevated temperatures in a potential future colonization site north of its current range to examine responses.
3) They found warming advanced development and compressed life cycles, with patterns of selection on traits changing. Performance depended on population of origin, with the northern population faring best under current conditions but the southern population potentially adapting best to future warming. However, photoperiod mismatches may limit long-term persistence, especially between
This document summarizes a symposium discussing how indigenous peoples are affected by and responding to climate change. It describes how indigenous peoples' livelihoods depend directly on natural resources impacted by climate change. While often viewed as helpless victims, indigenous peoples are actively adapting to changes through traditional knowledge and new technologies. The document then examines climate change impacts and challenges for indigenous peoples in different environments, such as rising temperatures threatening Arctic livelihoods and languages, alpine species migrating up mountains, expanding deserts reducing grazing land, droughts endangering rainforests, and rising seas threatening island communities.
This document provides an overview of the historical development of the theory of evolution. It discusses pre-Darwinian thinkers like Jean Baptiste Lamarck and his theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics. It also mentions the contributions of Charles Lyell and his theory of uniformitarianism. The bulk of the document focuses on Charles Darwin and the influence of his voyage on the Beagle, particularly his observations of the Galapagos finches. It outlines Darwin's subsequent development of the theory of natural selection and publication of On the Origin of Species. Finally, it briefly discusses other scientists like Alfred Russel Wallace, Ernst Haeckel, and their role in further developing evolutionary thought, culminating in the modern synthesis of evolution.
The document summarizes evidence that the Earth's biosphere may be approaching a planetary-scale critical transition or "tipping point" due to human influence, similar to transitions seen in the past that changed the state of the biosphere abruptly and irreversibly. It reviews how localized ecological systems can experience abrupt shifts between alternative stable states when critical thresholds are crossed. It argues that improved forecasting is needed to detect early signs of such global-scale critical transitions, understand how global changes trigger local effects, and address the human-caused root drivers of environmental change in order to minimize unwanted biological surprises and prevent a global state shift.
Mumby consequences of ecological, evolutionary and biogeochemical uncertainty...Loretta Roberson
The document discusses the complexity in predicting coral reef responses to climate stressors like temperature and ocean acidification. It presents two models examining community interactions and biochemical feedbacks between corals and the environment. Scenarios altering the stress impacts on different species showed predictions are sensitive to uncertainties. Biogeochemical coupling between corals and water further complicates predictions. The conclusion is that simple projections of reef responses to climate change are dangerous, and more studies considering multiple stressors and species are needed.
Master's research proposal presentation to the department of Horticulture and Crop Science at The Ohio State University.
Abstract: Chile peppers (Capsicum annuum), which grow in southern Mexico on a environmental gradient from warm and humid coastal areas to the cool, dry highlands, present a unique opportunity to study the range of environmental tolerance and adaptation. Understanding how chile peppers have adapted to local conditions will provide insight into the importance of specific environmental factors in organizing diversity across the landscape, and highlight traits with potential for future crop improvement. Over recent years, our international research team has sampled more than 200 plants from wild, semi-wild and domesticated populations across southern Mexico. Seed from these original collections will undergo one generation of increase in the greenhouse to eliminate maternal environmental effects in seeds used for planned phenotyping experiments. Genome-wide genotyping (GBS) will be conducted on these parent plants. I will conduct two experiments aimed at assessing short-term and long-term resistance to abiotic stress. I will study short-term resistance to drought and heat stress in seedlings by overlaying factorial environmental treatments (simulating the interaction between cool highland/warm lowland temperatures and moist coastal/drier inland environments of Oaxaca, Mexico) onto chile pepper accessions from our collection. I will assess long-term (i.e. full life cycle) drought resistance by comparing the effect of a field capacity treatment with an empirically determined water stress treatment across accessions in factorial combination. Habitat drought stress indices based on the Thornthwaite potential evapotranspiration (PET) model and the Hamon estimator will be assessed as drought resistance predictors. Using a genome wide association study (GWAS) approach, I will identify significant associations between genetic markers and observed values of gas exchange, as well as plant morphology, growth characteristics and overall fitness. Information gathered through this study will provide evidence for the genetic basis of both adaptive variation and phenotypic plasticity, therefore furthering the understanding of genetic diversity in chile peppers.
This document discusses the problem of pattern and scale in ecology over the past 20 years. Some key points:
- Major advances have helped connect ecological patterns to theory and vice versa, and recognize the importance of scale in predictions.
- Technological revolutions in computing, molecular biology, sensing, and information sharing have driven radical changes in ecology.
- Research is increasingly focusing on coupling ecological and evolutionary timescales, the influence of evolution on ecosystems, integrating organism biology and ecology through networks, and understanding spatial patterns across scales.
- Studies on rotifers, algae, Darwin's finches and guppies show evolution can impact populations and ecosystems on ecological timescales. This challenges the traditional view that
This document discusses two systems that utilize plants and associated soil microbes to both produce food crops and clean air and water in tightly sealed environments like spacecraft.
The first system involves constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment. Constructed wetlands use wetland plants and microbes to purify wastewater of nutrients and pollutants. The treated water can then be used to irrigate food crops. Constructed wetlands were shown to effectively treat wastewater inside the sealed Biosphere 2 facility.
The second system involves using plants and their root zone microbes, or soil biofilters, to purify indoor air of pollutants. Research demonstrated that common houseplants and soil beds can remove volatile organic
1) The success of assisted colonization and gene flow conservation strategies depends on how plant species respond to changes in temperature and photoperiod across their life cycles.
2) A study exposed seeds from northern and southern populations of an annual plant, Chamaecrista fasciculata, to ambient and elevated temperatures in a potential future colonization site north of its current range to examine responses.
3) They found warming advanced development and compressed life cycles, with patterns of selection on traits changing. Performance depended on population of origin, with the northern population faring best under current conditions but the southern population potentially adapting best to future warming. However, photoperiod mismatches may limit long-term persistence, especially between
This document summarizes a symposium discussing how indigenous peoples are affected by and responding to climate change. It describes how indigenous peoples' livelihoods depend directly on natural resources impacted by climate change. While often viewed as helpless victims, indigenous peoples are actively adapting to changes through traditional knowledge and new technologies. The document then examines climate change impacts and challenges for indigenous peoples in different environments, such as rising temperatures threatening Arctic livelihoods and languages, alpine species migrating up mountains, expanding deserts reducing grazing land, droughts endangering rainforests, and rising seas threatening island communities.
This document provides an overview of the historical development of the theory of evolution. It discusses pre-Darwinian thinkers like Jean Baptiste Lamarck and his theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics. It also mentions the contributions of Charles Lyell and his theory of uniformitarianism. The bulk of the document focuses on Charles Darwin and the influence of his voyage on the Beagle, particularly his observations of the Galapagos finches. It outlines Darwin's subsequent development of the theory of natural selection and publication of On the Origin of Species. Finally, it briefly discusses other scientists like Alfred Russel Wallace, Ernst Haeckel, and their role in further developing evolutionary thought, culminating in the modern synthesis of evolution.
This presentation by Jonathan Ali, a PhD student at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, was presented at the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute’s Research Forum on Thursday, May 11, 2017. Jonathan is a 2016-2017 student support grantee of the Institute.
Water: The Potential Consequences of Global Warming for Water Resources in USAEric832w
This document summarizes the key findings of a report on the potential impacts of climate change on U.S. water resources:
1) Climate change is expected to impact water resources through rising temperatures, changes in precipitation patterns, and more extreme events. This could affect water supplies, agriculture, ecosystems and increase flood and drought risks.
2) Evidence suggests some hydrologic systems are already being affected by a changing climate, through trends like rising temperatures, changes in precipitation, shrinking snowpacks and glaciers, and shifting streamflow patterns.
3) Climate change poses risks and challenges for managed water systems like infrastructure and agriculture. Adaptation will be needed to ensure resilient water management in the face of a non-station
impactos del cambio climatico en ecosistemas costerosXin San
Anthropogenically induced global climate change has profound implications for marine
ecosystems and the economic and social systems that depend upon them. The
relationship between temperature and individual performance is reasonably well
understood, and much climate-related research has focused on potential shifts in
distribution and abundance driven directly by temperature. However, recent work has
revealed that both abiotic changes and biological responses in the ocean will be
substantially more complex. For example, changes in ocean chemistry may be more
important than changes in temperature for the performance and survival of many
organisms. Ocean circulation, which drives larval transport, will also change, with
important consequences for population dynamics. Furthermore, climatic impacts on one
or a few leverage species may result in sweeping community-level changes. Finally,
synergistic effects between climate and other anthropogenic variables, particularly fishing
pressure, will likely exacerbate climate-induced changes. Efforts to manage and conserve
living marine systems in the face of climate change will require improvements to the
existing predictive framework. Key directions for future research include identifying key
demographic transitions that influence population dynamics, predicting changes in the
community-level impacts of ecologically dominant species, incorporating populations
ability to evolve (adapt), and understanding the scales over which climate will change and
living systems will respond.
- Marine phytoplankton play a key role in regulating Earth's climate by absorbing large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and oceans through photosynthesis.
- Using satellite data and improved models, scientists have learned that phytoplankton absorb nearly as much carbon globally as all land plants, and about 15% of the carbon absorbed by phytoplankton each year is transported deep into the ocean via the "biological pump."
- Some scientists have proposed artificially enhancing phytoplankton growth through ocean iron fertilization as a means to mitigate climate change, but the environmental impacts of such large-scale manipulation are still uncertain and debated.
The Strawberry Canyon Research Plot (SCRP) is a 0.16 hectare permanent plot established to study invasive and native plant populations in Strawberry Canyon, Berkeley, California. A census of the plot found 17,225 individual woody stems representing 16 genera and 17 species, of which 5,736 were identified as invasive non-native plants. The understory is dominated by invasive Rubus discolor and native Toxicodendron diversilobum, while the canopy is dominated by native Quercus agrifolia and Umbellularia californica. The plot aims to further understanding of factors promoting invasive species establishment such as light availability, distance from water, and basal area dominance. It will also serve
This document discusses various long-term climate change monitoring and research programs being conducted in Mount Rainier National Park and the surrounding area. It describes monitoring of temperature, precipitation, snow levels and other climate variables over time for understanding trends. Research includes studies of mercury levels in fish, impacts on wetlands and amphibians from changing conditions, modeling of climate change effects on hydrology, and inventories of butterfly populations to assess changes. The goal is to understand how the local ecosystem is being impacted by climate change and inform conservation efforts.
Local human perturbations increase lakes vulnerability to climate changes: A ...Lancaster University
This document outlines a PhD proposal on assessing how local human pressures influence lakes' vulnerability and responses to climate change across Europe. The proposal involves meta-analyzing paleoecological data from 15 lakes around the Alps to compare responses of pelagic biological communities to climate change and determine if variability depends on local human pressures. The student will analyze diatom and cladoceran remains and photosynthetic pigments in sediments to compare community responses over time between lakes and quantify the influence of geomorphology and local human impacts. The supervisors are from INRA CARRTEL in France and CNR ISE in Italy.
Tropical Mountain Mires and New Geographies of Water in the Santa River Water...InfoAndina CONDESAN
This document summarizes research on tropical mountain mires in the Santa River watershed in Peru. The mires are situated within a social-ecological system experiencing impacts from glacier recession due to climate change. Analysis of satellite imagery from 2000 to 2011 found that mire extent decreased by 17.2% or 33 hectares in one valley as hydrologic changes altered the landscape. The mires provide important ecosystem services like water storage and filtration and are linked to shifts occurring throughout the watershed from climate impacts on glaciers and human water usage. The research aims to better understand the coupled natural and human dynamics influencing the region's hydrology.
This document summarizes a study that used NDVI data to identify and map potential groundwater dependent ecosystems (GDEs) in south-central Texas. The researchers conducted seasonal and inter-annual NDVI analyses to determine pixels with different groundwater dependence potentials. K-means clustering classified pixels from the inter-annual NDVI difference images as high, low, or partial potential for GDEs. The results identified areas in the mid to lower part of the study site as having high potential to access groundwater. The study demonstrates the ability of remote sensing to identify GDEs and informs water resource management.
Climate change impact on ocean forests and their biodiversityAlexander Jueterbock
Rising ocean temperatures due to climate change are negatively impacting ocean forests and their biodiversity in three main ways:
1. Ocean forests are being damaged by increased heat waves and are shifting poleward to cooler waters. This is leading to loss of habitat and declines in species abundance.
2. Genetic diversity of ocean forest species is threatened as climate change endangers glacial refugia that harbor much of their genetic variation. This reduces forests' ability to adapt and recover from stress.
3. Changes in species distributions are altering the composition of ocean forests. Warming is allowing tropical species to move poleward while decreasing the diversity of temperate algal turfs and replacing kelp forests with seaweed
This study examined the impact of increased infiltration rates on the transport and degradation of the herbicide atrazine in agricultural soils. Column and microcosm experiments were conducted using soils from Nebraska. The results showed that at higher infiltration rates, atrazine transport increased but degradation also increased due to higher soil moisture levels. Overall, atrazine transport was not significantly influenced by the higher infiltration rates because the enhanced degradation limited its movement. The findings suggest that the direct impacts of climate change on contaminant transport in soils are complex and depend on competing degradation and transport processes.
1. The study examined the relative influence of local environmental conditions and regional spatial processes on the structure of aquatic plant communities in 98 lakes and ponds across Connecticut.
2. Using statistical analyses like partial canonical correspondence analysis and partial Mantel tests, the study found that aquatic plant community structure reflects both local environmental conditions like pH, water clarity, and depth, as well as regional spatial processes like dispersal.
3. While environmental conditions and spatial processes explained 27% of the variation in the plant community data, local environmental conditions accounted for 45% of the explained variation, and regional spatial processes like dispersal accounted for 40%, suggesting both play a role in structuring aquatic plant communities.
This study examined how local and regional processes structure dragonfly distributions across a habitat gradient with varying pond permanence and top predator types. Through experiments, the study found that habitat specialist dragonflies, which are restricted to permanent lakes, were more vulnerable to invertebrate predators and dispersed and colonized artificial ponds less frequently than generalist species. Additionally, habitat specialists traveled shorter distances than generalists. These results suggest that dispersal limitation plays a key role in restricting the distributions of habitat specialist species, and that predation may reinforce this pattern by excluding specialists from certain habitats. By examining both local predation and regional dispersal, the study provides evidence that species distributions can be shaped by processes operating at multiple spatial scales.
This document summarizes research on dust mitigation strategies for degraded grasslands on the Colorado Plateau. It finds that biological soil crusts stabilize soils but are easily damaged by trampling. Degraded lands exist in alternative stable states like invaded grassland or annualized states. Direct mitigation like seeding and soil raking needs to overcome processes maintaining degraded states. Pilot studies found that small barrier structures combined with seeding increased plant establishment at small scales. Larger experiments are testing interactions of barriers, seeding, grazing and climate. The document concludes that while most at-risk lands are federally managed, partnerships are needed for landscape-scale restoration given the mix of land ownerships.
This document summarizes a study examining the relative influence of local vs. regional factors in structuring zooplankton communities across 34 interconnected ponds. Data on zooplankton communities were collected from the ponds over three years. The study found evidence of a metacommunity structure each year. Variation in zooplankton community structure was related to both local environmental factors and the spatial configuration of ponds. However, local environmental variables had a strong influence on community structure each year despite high dispersal rates between ponds. This suggests that even in highly interconnected systems, local environmental conditions can structure local communities.
The document discusses patterns in nature at various scales from geological processes that form landscapes to ecological patterns like nutrient cycling and succession. It notes how patterns are constantly changing in response to disturbances from forces like climate change. While natural disturbances are usually temporary, human impacts are often permanent and disruptive to natural patterns. Maintaining biodiversity is important for ecosystem resilience against environmental changes.
Cassondra R. Thomas has over 17 years of experience in biogeochemistry and nutrient cycling in wetland environments. She holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences and has extensive experience modeling material and energy flows within estuarine systems. Her research has focused on phosphorus and nitrogen cycling in prescribed burns in the Everglades and carbon sequestration in scrub oak systems. She has also examined the effects of fiddler crab burrows on salt marsh biogeochemistry and created models of nitrogen cycling in Atlantic coast salt marshes and the Neuse River Estuary.
Observations by interested individuals help us better understand local impacts of climate change. Science researchers work with volunteers through citizen science projects to track changes in annual plant blooming, frog calling, bird ranges, and other natural phenomena. This version opens with an example from the Southwestern United States. A similar version is available highlighting the North East US .
Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noi...Energy for One World
The document discusses how multiple, faster-acting, and noisier drivers may cause ecosystems to collapse more quickly than expected based on single, gradual drivers of change alone. It presents the results of experiments on four ecosystem models - representing fisheries, human populations, forests, and freshwater quality - where collapse times were substantially reduced by adding secondary and tertiary stresses or noise to the primary stressors. The models showed that collapses could occur at lower primary stress levels in the presence of additional drivers or noise. This has implications for better understanding how interacting human and climate pressures could accelerate real-world ecosystem changes.
This planetary boundaries framework update finds that six of the nine boundaries are transgressed, suggesting that Earth is now well outside of the safe operating space for humanity. Ocean acidification is close to being breached, while aerosol loading regionally exceeds the boundary. Stratospheric ozone levels have slightly recovered. The transgression level has increased for all boundaries earlier identified as overstepped. As primary production drives Earth system biosphere functions, human appropriation of net primary production is proposed as a control variable for functional biosphere integrity. This boundary is also transgressed. Earth system modeling of different levels of the transgression of the climate and land system change boundaries illustrates that these anthropogenic impacts on Earth system must be considered in a systemic context.
Publication date: 13th September 2023
This presentation by Jonathan Ali, a PhD student at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, was presented at the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute’s Research Forum on Thursday, May 11, 2017. Jonathan is a 2016-2017 student support grantee of the Institute.
Water: The Potential Consequences of Global Warming for Water Resources in USAEric832w
This document summarizes the key findings of a report on the potential impacts of climate change on U.S. water resources:
1) Climate change is expected to impact water resources through rising temperatures, changes in precipitation patterns, and more extreme events. This could affect water supplies, agriculture, ecosystems and increase flood and drought risks.
2) Evidence suggests some hydrologic systems are already being affected by a changing climate, through trends like rising temperatures, changes in precipitation, shrinking snowpacks and glaciers, and shifting streamflow patterns.
3) Climate change poses risks and challenges for managed water systems like infrastructure and agriculture. Adaptation will be needed to ensure resilient water management in the face of a non-station
impactos del cambio climatico en ecosistemas costerosXin San
Anthropogenically induced global climate change has profound implications for marine
ecosystems and the economic and social systems that depend upon them. The
relationship between temperature and individual performance is reasonably well
understood, and much climate-related research has focused on potential shifts in
distribution and abundance driven directly by temperature. However, recent work has
revealed that both abiotic changes and biological responses in the ocean will be
substantially more complex. For example, changes in ocean chemistry may be more
important than changes in temperature for the performance and survival of many
organisms. Ocean circulation, which drives larval transport, will also change, with
important consequences for population dynamics. Furthermore, climatic impacts on one
or a few leverage species may result in sweeping community-level changes. Finally,
synergistic effects between climate and other anthropogenic variables, particularly fishing
pressure, will likely exacerbate climate-induced changes. Efforts to manage and conserve
living marine systems in the face of climate change will require improvements to the
existing predictive framework. Key directions for future research include identifying key
demographic transitions that influence population dynamics, predicting changes in the
community-level impacts of ecologically dominant species, incorporating populations
ability to evolve (adapt), and understanding the scales over which climate will change and
living systems will respond.
- Marine phytoplankton play a key role in regulating Earth's climate by absorbing large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and oceans through photosynthesis.
- Using satellite data and improved models, scientists have learned that phytoplankton absorb nearly as much carbon globally as all land plants, and about 15% of the carbon absorbed by phytoplankton each year is transported deep into the ocean via the "biological pump."
- Some scientists have proposed artificially enhancing phytoplankton growth through ocean iron fertilization as a means to mitigate climate change, but the environmental impacts of such large-scale manipulation are still uncertain and debated.
The Strawberry Canyon Research Plot (SCRP) is a 0.16 hectare permanent plot established to study invasive and native plant populations in Strawberry Canyon, Berkeley, California. A census of the plot found 17,225 individual woody stems representing 16 genera and 17 species, of which 5,736 were identified as invasive non-native plants. The understory is dominated by invasive Rubus discolor and native Toxicodendron diversilobum, while the canopy is dominated by native Quercus agrifolia and Umbellularia californica. The plot aims to further understanding of factors promoting invasive species establishment such as light availability, distance from water, and basal area dominance. It will also serve
This document discusses various long-term climate change monitoring and research programs being conducted in Mount Rainier National Park and the surrounding area. It describes monitoring of temperature, precipitation, snow levels and other climate variables over time for understanding trends. Research includes studies of mercury levels in fish, impacts on wetlands and amphibians from changing conditions, modeling of climate change effects on hydrology, and inventories of butterfly populations to assess changes. The goal is to understand how the local ecosystem is being impacted by climate change and inform conservation efforts.
Local human perturbations increase lakes vulnerability to climate changes: A ...Lancaster University
This document outlines a PhD proposal on assessing how local human pressures influence lakes' vulnerability and responses to climate change across Europe. The proposal involves meta-analyzing paleoecological data from 15 lakes around the Alps to compare responses of pelagic biological communities to climate change and determine if variability depends on local human pressures. The student will analyze diatom and cladoceran remains and photosynthetic pigments in sediments to compare community responses over time between lakes and quantify the influence of geomorphology and local human impacts. The supervisors are from INRA CARRTEL in France and CNR ISE in Italy.
Tropical Mountain Mires and New Geographies of Water in the Santa River Water...InfoAndina CONDESAN
This document summarizes research on tropical mountain mires in the Santa River watershed in Peru. The mires are situated within a social-ecological system experiencing impacts from glacier recession due to climate change. Analysis of satellite imagery from 2000 to 2011 found that mire extent decreased by 17.2% or 33 hectares in one valley as hydrologic changes altered the landscape. The mires provide important ecosystem services like water storage and filtration and are linked to shifts occurring throughout the watershed from climate impacts on glaciers and human water usage. The research aims to better understand the coupled natural and human dynamics influencing the region's hydrology.
This document summarizes a study that used NDVI data to identify and map potential groundwater dependent ecosystems (GDEs) in south-central Texas. The researchers conducted seasonal and inter-annual NDVI analyses to determine pixels with different groundwater dependence potentials. K-means clustering classified pixels from the inter-annual NDVI difference images as high, low, or partial potential for GDEs. The results identified areas in the mid to lower part of the study site as having high potential to access groundwater. The study demonstrates the ability of remote sensing to identify GDEs and informs water resource management.
Climate change impact on ocean forests and their biodiversityAlexander Jueterbock
Rising ocean temperatures due to climate change are negatively impacting ocean forests and their biodiversity in three main ways:
1. Ocean forests are being damaged by increased heat waves and are shifting poleward to cooler waters. This is leading to loss of habitat and declines in species abundance.
2. Genetic diversity of ocean forest species is threatened as climate change endangers glacial refugia that harbor much of their genetic variation. This reduces forests' ability to adapt and recover from stress.
3. Changes in species distributions are altering the composition of ocean forests. Warming is allowing tropical species to move poleward while decreasing the diversity of temperate algal turfs and replacing kelp forests with seaweed
This study examined the impact of increased infiltration rates on the transport and degradation of the herbicide atrazine in agricultural soils. Column and microcosm experiments were conducted using soils from Nebraska. The results showed that at higher infiltration rates, atrazine transport increased but degradation also increased due to higher soil moisture levels. Overall, atrazine transport was not significantly influenced by the higher infiltration rates because the enhanced degradation limited its movement. The findings suggest that the direct impacts of climate change on contaminant transport in soils are complex and depend on competing degradation and transport processes.
1. The study examined the relative influence of local environmental conditions and regional spatial processes on the structure of aquatic plant communities in 98 lakes and ponds across Connecticut.
2. Using statistical analyses like partial canonical correspondence analysis and partial Mantel tests, the study found that aquatic plant community structure reflects both local environmental conditions like pH, water clarity, and depth, as well as regional spatial processes like dispersal.
3. While environmental conditions and spatial processes explained 27% of the variation in the plant community data, local environmental conditions accounted for 45% of the explained variation, and regional spatial processes like dispersal accounted for 40%, suggesting both play a role in structuring aquatic plant communities.
This study examined how local and regional processes structure dragonfly distributions across a habitat gradient with varying pond permanence and top predator types. Through experiments, the study found that habitat specialist dragonflies, which are restricted to permanent lakes, were more vulnerable to invertebrate predators and dispersed and colonized artificial ponds less frequently than generalist species. Additionally, habitat specialists traveled shorter distances than generalists. These results suggest that dispersal limitation plays a key role in restricting the distributions of habitat specialist species, and that predation may reinforce this pattern by excluding specialists from certain habitats. By examining both local predation and regional dispersal, the study provides evidence that species distributions can be shaped by processes operating at multiple spatial scales.
This document summarizes research on dust mitigation strategies for degraded grasslands on the Colorado Plateau. It finds that biological soil crusts stabilize soils but are easily damaged by trampling. Degraded lands exist in alternative stable states like invaded grassland or annualized states. Direct mitigation like seeding and soil raking needs to overcome processes maintaining degraded states. Pilot studies found that small barrier structures combined with seeding increased plant establishment at small scales. Larger experiments are testing interactions of barriers, seeding, grazing and climate. The document concludes that while most at-risk lands are federally managed, partnerships are needed for landscape-scale restoration given the mix of land ownerships.
This document summarizes a study examining the relative influence of local vs. regional factors in structuring zooplankton communities across 34 interconnected ponds. Data on zooplankton communities were collected from the ponds over three years. The study found evidence of a metacommunity structure each year. Variation in zooplankton community structure was related to both local environmental factors and the spatial configuration of ponds. However, local environmental variables had a strong influence on community structure each year despite high dispersal rates between ponds. This suggests that even in highly interconnected systems, local environmental conditions can structure local communities.
The document discusses patterns in nature at various scales from geological processes that form landscapes to ecological patterns like nutrient cycling and succession. It notes how patterns are constantly changing in response to disturbances from forces like climate change. While natural disturbances are usually temporary, human impacts are often permanent and disruptive to natural patterns. Maintaining biodiversity is important for ecosystem resilience against environmental changes.
Cassondra R. Thomas has over 17 years of experience in biogeochemistry and nutrient cycling in wetland environments. She holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences and has extensive experience modeling material and energy flows within estuarine systems. Her research has focused on phosphorus and nitrogen cycling in prescribed burns in the Everglades and carbon sequestration in scrub oak systems. She has also examined the effects of fiddler crab burrows on salt marsh biogeochemistry and created models of nitrogen cycling in Atlantic coast salt marshes and the Neuse River Estuary.
Observations by interested individuals help us better understand local impacts of climate change. Science researchers work with volunteers through citizen science projects to track changes in annual plant blooming, frog calling, bird ranges, and other natural phenomena. This version opens with an example from the Southwestern United States. A similar version is available highlighting the North East US .
Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noi...Energy for One World
The document discusses how multiple, faster-acting, and noisier drivers may cause ecosystems to collapse more quickly than expected based on single, gradual drivers of change alone. It presents the results of experiments on four ecosystem models - representing fisheries, human populations, forests, and freshwater quality - where collapse times were substantially reduced by adding secondary and tertiary stresses or noise to the primary stressors. The models showed that collapses could occur at lower primary stress levels in the presence of additional drivers or noise. This has implications for better understanding how interacting human and climate pressures could accelerate real-world ecosystem changes.
This planetary boundaries framework update finds that six of the nine boundaries are transgressed, suggesting that Earth is now well outside of the safe operating space for humanity. Ocean acidification is close to being breached, while aerosol loading regionally exceeds the boundary. Stratospheric ozone levels have slightly recovered. The transgression level has increased for all boundaries earlier identified as overstepped. As primary production drives Earth system biosphere functions, human appropriation of net primary production is proposed as a control variable for functional biosphere integrity. This boundary is also transgressed. Earth system modeling of different levels of the transgression of the climate and land system change boundaries illustrates that these anthropogenic impacts on Earth system must be considered in a systemic context.
Publication date: 13th September 2023
The document summarizes research using a combination of food web and ecosystem modeling to show that impending catastrophic shifts in shallow lake ecosystems are preceded by a destabilization of the aquatic food web. Analysis of trophic interactions revealed that only a few key interactions involving zooplankton, diatoms, and detritus dictate the deterioration of food-web stability. This implies that changes in trophic organization may serve as an empirical indicator of ecosystem resilience and the risk of a regime shift.
This document discusses how founder effects can impact adaptation when populations are established in new environments. It presents a study that monitored the early evolutionary dynamics of six laboratory populations of Drosophila subobscura founded from the same natural population. Each of the six foundations was replicated three times, resulting in 18 total populations. During the first few generations, the populations showed increased genetic differentiation both within and between foundations. The populations also differed in their patterns of phenotypic adaptation depending on their ancestral founding sample. Differences in early genetic variability and effective population size predicted differences in the rates of adaptation over the first 21 generations of laboratory evolution. The study demonstrates that evolution in a novel environment is contingent on both the initial composition of the founding population and stochastic changes during early
Natural Selection - Crash Course Biology.htmlI hope you like thi.docxvannagoforth
Natural Selection - Crash Course Biology.htmlI hope you like this video. I think it does a good job of summarizing natural selection.
The Evolution of Life on the Earth
Author(s): Stephen Jay Gould
Source: Scientific American, Vol. 271, No. 4, SPECIAL ISSUE: LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE
(OCTOBER 1994), pp. 84-91
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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN October 1994 85
S
ome creators announce their in-
ventions with grand �clat. God
proclaimed, ÒFiat lux,Ó and then
ßooded his new universe with bright-
ness. Others bring forth great discov-
eries in a modest guise, as did Charles
Darwin in deÞning his new mechanism
of evolutionary causality in 1859: ÒI have
called this principle, by which each slight
variation, if useful, is preserved, by the
term Natural Selection.Ó
Natural selection is an immensely
powerful yet beautifully simple theory
that has held up remarkably well, un-
der intense and unrelenting scrutiny
and testing, for 135 years. In essence,
natural selection locates the mechanism
of evolutionary change in a ÒstruggleÓ
among organisms for reproductive suc-
cess, leading to improved Þt of popula-
tions to changing environments. (Strug-
gle is often a metaphorical description
and need not be viewed as overt com-
bat, guns blazing. Tactics for reproduc-
tive success include a variety of non-
martial activities such as earlier and
more frequent mating or better cooper-
ation with partners in raising oÝspring.)
Natural selection is therefore a princi-
ple of local adaptation, not of general
advance or progress.
Yet powerful though the principle
may be, natural selection is not the only
cause of evolutionary change (and may,
in many cases, be overshadowed by oth-
er forces). This point needs emphasis
because the standard misapplication of
evolutionary theory assumes that bio-
logical explanation may be equated with
devising accounts, often speculative and
conjectural in practice, about the ad ...
This summary provides the key points from the document in 3 sentences:
The document discusses a study that proposes a new hypothesis for the origin of intraplate volcanism. The study suggests that some intraplate volcanic activity, like the Steens-Columbia River flood basalt, can be explained by tearing of subducting tectonic plates as they slow down, which allows rapid mantle upwelling. While this model may explain some cases of intraplate magmatism, it does not fully account for all aspects of some systems like Yellowstone, so the relationship between plate tectonics and intraplate volcanism remains an area of ongoing research.
The planetary commons: A new paradigm for safeguarding Earth- regulating syst...Energy for One World
PNAS 2024 Vol. 121 No. 5 e2301531121https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.23015311211 of 10PERSPECTIVEThe planetary commons: A new paradigm for safeguarding Earth- regulating systems in the AnthropoceneJohan Rockströma,b,c, Louis Kotzéd,e,f, Svetlana Milutinovića, Frank Biermanng, Victor Brovkinh, Jonathan Dongesa,c, Jonas Ebbessoni, Duncan Frenchj, Joyeeta Guptak,l, Rakhyun Kimg, Timothy Lentonm, Dominic Lenzin, Nebojsa Nakicenovico,p, Barbara Neumannq, Fabian Schuppertr, Ricarda Winkelmanna,s, Klaus Bosselmannt, Carl Folkec,u,1, Wolfgang Luchta,v, David Schlosbergw, Katherine Richardsonx, and Will Steffen
The document discusses middle range theory in archaeology. Middle range theory aims to connect raw archaeological data to broader conclusions about human behavior in the past. It seeks to develop testable theories that are abstract enough for generalization but grounded in empirical evidence. While archaeologists initially applied middle range theory haphazardly, it has the potential to play an important role in the future by refocusing research on theoretical issues and human behavior rather than just interpretation. However, more work needs to be done to further define middle range theory in archaeology.
This thesis examines the impact of sediments and endocrine disrupting compounds on fathead minnows through two studies. The first is a field study that exposed fish in mesocosms to water from the Elkhorn River, Nebraska with varying sediment loads during periods of low and high river discharge. Gene expression analysis found reductions in estrogen-responsive genes in fish exposed to full sediment loads only during high discharge. The second study exposed fish to sediment spiked with the synthetic androgen 17-β-trenbolone for 5, 10, or 5-10 days. Fish exposed for the first 5 days experienced molecular defeminization, while longer exposures did not, indicating effects may be reversible at low levels. Overall,
Avaliação de alguns currículos interdisciplinarescasifufrgs
This document contains an agenda and summaries of proposed instructional sequences for four levels of integrated science courses. The levels progress from introductory material on matter, energy and earth/planetary systems in Level 1 to more advanced topics including human body systems, genetics and engineering in Levels 3 and 4. Each level is divided into two semesters, with the first semester focusing on universal laws/principles and the second on applying those principles to biological/living systems.
This document discusses how altering incentives, whether economic or social norms, can achieve positive outcomes for ocean sustainability. It provides examples of how well-designed rights-based fisheries and ecosystem service accounting have shifted economic incentives to align conservation and economic benefits. Modifying social norms can also incentivize sustainable practices by enhancing reputation or self-image. Recent successes in fishery reforms, marine spatial planning, and large marine reserves demonstrate that changing the feedbacks between individual actors and system properties can trigger transitions to more virtuous cycles. The key is to evaluate conservation tools by their ability to align incentives of different actors with broader sustainability goals.
2011 NSF CAREER_Steve Koch Full Project Description Steve Koch
This is the full Project Description for my 2011 NSF CAREER proposal. As I described on my blog, I am disappointed in the unfinished product, mostly because I still think the proposed research is important, exciting, and achievable by my lab. ( http://stevekochresearch.blogspot.com/2011/08/2011-nsf-career-proposal-ugh-failures.html )
Here are links to prior years' proposals, which were declined:
* 2009 http://www.scribd.com/doc/17548381/2009-ProposalCAREER-SingleMolecule-Analysis-of-Genomic-DNA-and-Chromatin-in-Eukaryotic-Transcription
* 2008 http://www.scribd.com/doc/10196076/2008-NSF-CAREERproposal-Only
The author learned a lot about their self concept, attitudes, and feelings by taking this psychology course. They discovered that they are a creative and compassionate person who enjoys activities that use their imagination. The author also realized they are a good listener, which helps them be understanding and supportive of others. Taking this course provided insight into social influence, relationships, and how the author views and describes themselves.
Limites planetarios planetary boundaries guiding human development on a cha...Paula Machado
This research article proposes revisions to the planetary boundary framework, which defines a safe operating space for humanity based on Earth's biophysical processes. The authors update several of the planetary boundaries based on new scientific evidence and input from experts. They introduce a two-tiered approach for some boundaries to account for regional heterogeneity. They also identify two "core" boundaries - climate change and biosphere integrity - that could drive the Earth system into an uninhabitable state if substantially transgressed. Currently, human impacts have exceeded proposed boundaries for climate change, biosphere integrity, biogeochemical flows, and land-system change.
This document discusses the importance of sustainability and science in achieving the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It argues that science, especially earth science, is essential to meeting the SDGs but that the scientific community must improve communication, partnerships, and application of knowledge to non-scientific decision-makers. Achieving the integrated SDGs requires understanding complex human-environment interactions and tackling goals simultaneously rather than sequentially to avoid delaying environmental protection. The earth science community is well-positioned to contribute greatly due to its insights across goals like water, energy, cities, climate change, oceans, and land, but must transform to engage more directly with users and society.
The last ice age ended around 11,700 years ago, and since then the Earth has been in an interglacial period with warmer temperatures. During ice ages, large ice sheets covered much of North America, Europe, and Asia, and sea levels were lower due to more water being locked up as ice on land. The natural cycles of glacial advance and retreat that have occurred over hundreds of thousands of years demonstrate that the Earth's climate is constantly changing.
Adaptive Responses of Escherichia Coli to Space Conditions and Analog Environ...IRJET Journal
This document summarizes recent research on the adaptive responses of Escherichia coli (E. coli) to space conditions and analogous environments. Some key findings include:
1) Studies have found that E. coli can rapidly adapt to microgravity environments in space, showing increased growth rates, resistance to antibiotics, and morphological changes.
2) Research on Earth in high-altitude locations and space mission analog facilities has also found adaptive responses in E. coli, though results do not perfectly mimic true space conditions.
3) E. coli demonstrates adaptability to a wide range of temperatures, radiation exposures, culture methods, and other environmental stresses both in space and on Earth.
The document discusses the precarious state of fresh water systems globally due to mismanagement, overuse, and climate change. It summarizes findings from the Global Water System Project that humans significantly impact water quantities through reservoirs, river and groundwater extraction, and pollution. Current increases in water use and impairment are unsustainable. The document calls for a strategic partnership between scientists, stakeholders, decision-makers, and the private sector to develop an evidence-based action plan around integrated and multidisciplinary water management that balances human and environmental needs through sustainable practices.
This document is a thesis submitted by Justin Singleton exploring the impacts of climate change from environmental, social, economic, and political perspectives. It begins by acknowledging the support of his committee members and others who helped him complete the project. The introduction outlines that climate change is caused primarily by human activities like burning fossil fuels and that its impacts will be far-reaching. The paper will examine the science of climate change, case studies of its effects, and perspectives on how to mitigate further impacts through a green economy.
WYSE onora il contributo importante che gli anziani possono dare al mondo e crede che la loro esperienza possa essere di sostegno alle generazioni più giovani. WYSE dà valore all'approccio intergenerazionale e incoraggia l'interazione fra gruppi di giovani e di anziani.
WYSE ELDERS lavora per ridefinire il ruolo degli anziani nella nuova civiltà planetaria attraverso riflessioni , sfide, scambi e confronti fra persone appartenenti a culture diverse , in contesti residenziali ed esperienziali di profonda bellezza, condivisione , collaborazione e creatività.
I programmi WYSE ELDERS si rivolgono a donne e uomini oltre i 50 anni che desiderano dare senso e valore al “terzo atto” della vita, scambiare aspirazioni ed esperienze con persone affini, esprimere meglio il loro potenziale e collegare le loro visioni con la saggezza che viene dall'età.
WYSE honours the important contribution that older people can make to the world and how their experience can be of service to the younger generations. WYSE values an intergenerational approach and aims to encourage interaction between older and younger groups and individuals.
WYSE ELDERS works to redefine the role of elders in the new planetary civilization through reflections, challenges, sharings and exchanges between people coming from different cultures and backgrounds, in residential and experiential contexts of deep beauty, heart communication, collaboration, and creativity.
WYSE ELDERS programmes address women and men over 50 who wish to give sense and value to the “third act” of their lives, to exchange experiences and aspirations with like minded people ; express more potential; connect their visions and find greater meaning and purpose with the wisdom of being elder.
Comunicato Stampa La Cocciutaggine a Terni - Centro di PalmettaAnnamaria Pompili
Al termine di 15 giorni di residenza presso il Centro di Palmetta a Terni vengono presentati i lavori sull’Atto Secondo de La Cocciutaggine, ultimo vizio capitale di Rafael Spregelburd (drammaturgo argentino di fama internazionale) ambientato durante la Guerra Civile spagnola del 1939. Lo scocco delle “cinco de la tarde” segna l’inizio di questo atto agito nella stanza di Alfonsa, la figlia malaticcia: un gruppo “di innocui fascisti” che non nominano mai violenza e sterminio, immersi in un’atmosfera tesa e paranoica, si muovono in uno spazio temporale ossessivamente ripetitivo, come fantasmi condannati. Una figlia nevrastenica, le cui visioni non del tutto oniriche svelano scheletri nascosti negli armadi della tenuta e il sogno di una lingua universale e democratica, che tradisce un pensiero livellatore e globalizzante, scandiscono il tempo di questa tragedia grottesca.
La Cocciutaggine recensita da Paolo Petroni, Corriere sella SeraAnnamaria Pompili
Antonelli sceglie così per gli interpreti una recitazione sul filo del grottesco, ma equilibrata, ritmica e incisiva che finisce per coinvolgere e coincidere col carattere del testo rivelandone il senso, fino al nero finale a sorpresa (Paolo Petroni, Corriere della sera, 19 luglio 2013)
l 16 luglio 2013 debutta al Teatro Studio “Eleonora Duse” La cocciutaggine di Rafael
Spregelburd, Saggio di Diploma all’Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica “Silvio
d’Amico” dell’allievo regista Dante Antonelli. Lo spettacolo è frutto di un percorso di studio di
quattro mesi sul testo di Spregelburd condiviso e sviluppato insieme ad un ensemble di attori
neodiplomati all’Accademia (Vittoria Faro, Michele Lisi, Carlotta Mangione, Alessandro
Marmorini) due drammaturghi per la scena (Matilde D’Accardi e Federico Perrone), un
musicista (Francesco Leineri), luci di (Luca Febbraro) scene (Giulio Bartolozzi) e costumi di (Carla Tagliaferri). La
traduzione è di Antonella Caron.
Dei tre atti di cui è formato il testo, verranno presentati il II e III a giorni alterni secondo il
seguente calendario:
martedì 16, giovedì 18, sabato 20 ore 20.45: II atto
mercoledì 17, venerdì 19 e domenica 21 ore 20.45: III atto
Ultima opera dell’Eptalogia di Hieronymus Bosch, La Cocciutaggine, scritta da Spregelburd
nel 2008 e mai rappresentata in Italia, è ambientata in Spagna nel 1939 durante la Guerra
Civile. La vicenda, dal Commissario di polizia alla serva francese, dalla figlia nevrastenica alla
ex moglie vendicativa, dallo scrittore decadente al traduttore russo convertitosi allo stalinisno,
dalla figlia in fuga verso l’avventura partigiana al piccolo possidente preoccupato solo di
preservare ciò che già possiede, dal soldato sciocco di provincia al miliziano di ventura, si
articola in tre atti che raccontano lo stesso lasso di tempo in tre spazi diversi della tenuta del
Commissario Jaume Planc: il salone, la camera della figlia ed il giardino. Ogni luogo della casa
è portatore di un’atmosfera, di un tempo, di una ritualità sua propria. La ripetizione ossessiva
dello stesso arco di tempo spinge il dramma oltre la sua frammentazione ritrovando lo spirito
più alto di una tragedia che invoca, al termine dello spettacolo, l’assenza di giudizio sui fatti
che si sono svolti sulla scena. Ogni atto ha inizio alle “cinco de la tarde”, ora magica che
affonda il suo senso nella poesia di Garcia Lorca che proprio durante la Guerra Civile perse la
sua giovane vita.
Del suo percorso di ricerca il giovane regista Antonelli ha detto: “Spregelburd ci ha ricordato
come è facile giocare al teatro, senza rinunciare alla profondità civile ed umana del messaggio
di cui ci facciamo portatori”.
Teatro Studio Eleonora Duse
via Vittoria n 6 Roma
tutte le sere ore 20.45
ingresso gratuito
Per info e prenotazioni 06-36000151
Accademia nazionale d’arte drammatica Silvio d’Amico
Via Vincenzo Bellini, 16 - 00198 ROMA Tel 06 854.36.80 Fax 06 854.25.05 C.F. 80218690586 www.silviodamico.it
Leadership e management a confronto con il cambiamento di Gianpiero Collu, Li...Annamaria Pompili
L’idea di realizzare un progetto di formazione di coaching e team coaching/ training di gruppo suddiviso in sette giornate tematiche nasce dal desiderio di unire e smembrare al tempo stesso il macro concetto del cambiamento, strutturandolo in sette interventi separati tra loro ma connessi, ben inseriti in questo vasto scenario.
I sette diversi argomenti vengono declinati attraverso il tema della Leadership e del Management, con metodologie simili tra loro ma con diversi tagli e approfondimenti.
Ogni singola giornata è un percorso d’esplorazione che approccia a un tema diverso, ma che al tempo stesso segue una sorta di fil-rouge non visibile ma consistente, tanto da poterle tenere unite dando una ad esse una singola identità e al tempo stesso facilitarle come se si trattasse di un unico workshop.
Qui metto a disposizione la possibilità di scaricare gratuitamente il mio Ebook di 27 pagine in cui descrivo questo progetto di formazione, dando la possibilità a tutti di confrontarsi su queste tematiche in forma aperta e in un’ottica di condivisione.
Troverete i miei contatti sul sito www.gianpierocollucoach.it