Fwd: Monday: June Neighborhood Naturalists seminar
Friends Of Soundview Park
From: ecoflora <ecof...@nybg.org>
Date: Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 11:02 AM
Subject: Monday: June Neighborhood Naturalists seminar
To:
Wetlands and the City
Dr. Monica Palta, Assistant Professor, Dept of Environmental Studies and Science, Pace University
Dense human settlements are typically situated in areas with wetland ecosystems, due to the types of benefits, or ecosystem services, wetlands and aquatic systems provide to people. The explosion in urban growth in the 20th century has, however, driven tremendous wetland loss, as we have drained, filled, and buried wetland areas to makes them suitable for human occupation and use. Despite over 90% loss of wetlands in some US cities, urban wetland environments persist, and are in some cases gaining acreage due to either deliberate creation and restoration, or inadvertently (accidentally) due to various water management practices. These remnant, restored, created, and “accidental” wetlands have varying potential for many ecosystem services but also disservices, or harms. In her talk, Dr. Palta will examine the nature, extent, and balance of tradeoffs among these services and disservices in wetlands found in cities of the northeastern and southwestern US.
REGISTER HERE (Zoom)
