Biogeomorphology of wetlands in the drylands of southern Africa - Professor Michael Grenfell

Biota in the seasonal wetlands of southern Africa have developed adaptations to the cyclicity of constraint and opportunity. These include ecologically-ingenious functions and behaviour that shapes wetland habitat in ways that influence survival. Interacting with water, sediment and solute dispersal, wetland biota exert strong feedback controls on their physical environment, and in the process they create a variety of both random and reticulate landscape patterns.

In this talk, we’ll explore patterns of ‘bumpy’ relief moderated by these biota that are not only beautiful, but fundamentally important to understanding water and particulate distributions, biogeochemical cycling, and ecosystem structure and function at landscape scale.

This event has been organised by the West of England and South Wales committee.

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