TCD students co-authors paper in Science about tropical montane rivers

College or Unit Name UF PhD and TCD student Suman Jumani and her co-authors argue that tropical montane rivers serve as sentinels of regional and global change threatened by infrastructure development, pollution, biodiversity loss, conflict over water use, among other human disturbances. Suman is in UF’s Soil and Water Science Department and was part of the international team which published “A global perspective on tropical montane rivers” in the journal Science on 13 September 2019. This article, led by Universidad de San Francisco Quito (USFQ) Professor Andrea Encalada, brings attention to tropical montane rivers, which are understudied systems that provide critical ecosystem services and support high biodiversity throughout the world’s tropics. Elizabeth Anderson from the Tropical Rivers Lab at Florida International University is also a contributing author and member of the Amazon Dams Network (www.amazondamsnetwork.org) which brings together researchers and practitioners to build capacity for the advancement of inter- and transdisciplinary research on the social-ecological impacts of hydroelectric dam construction in the Amazon.   Congratulations to Suman and her co-authors for explaining the ecological importance of these systems and how they can serve as natural model systems to understand how biodiversity and ecosystem functions may respond to rapid changes.

Link to article: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6458/1124