Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to submit an abstract to our session, Resilience and recovery in lake systems across time and space at the 3rd Paleolimnology and Limnogeology International Symposium. The event will take place in Aix les Bains, France between 6th-10th October 2025. More information about the conference can be found here on their website: https://ialipa-2025.sciencesconf.org.
This session is being specially convened by an academic team that is currently researching lake recovery – namely, Dr. Roseanna Mayfield (University of Nottingham), Dr. Richard Walton (University of Southampton), Dr. Virginia Panizzo (University of Nottingham), Dr. Timothy Foster (University of Southampton), and Dr. Xu Chen (China University of Geosciences – Wuhan). The session aims to explore natural resilience and ‘recovery after management’ stories of lakes from any disturbance event, with research on anthropogenic disturbances especially welcome. Through this session, we hope to better understand lake management and conservation challenges by sharing the emerging evidence. The full description can be read below:
Resilience and recovery in lake systems across time and space
Lake ecosystems provide many key services, including food and water security, biodiversity, and carbon storage. These systems are highly susceptible to anthropogenic and natural drivers of stress, such as pollution, over-extraction, and climate change. A range of metrics and studies demonstrate lake ecosystems as one of the most vulnerable ecosystems globally. Recent studies have further indicated many lake ecosystems are approaching, or have passed, thresholds to unhealthy states, creating urgency for the development of well-informed management or restoration plans. Recovery from degraded states is often impeded by hysteresis and the influence of multiple stressors. Pathways to recovery remain largely unknown. Furthermore, there are limited systematic solutions for lake recovery reaching a structurally resilient state, hence, new research in this field could benefit freshwater health and ecosystem management. Here, we invite presentations analysing lake ecosystem resilience and recovery pathways.
Key Dates and Submission Details:
- Abstract submission is now open and will close on April 8th 2025.
- Instructions for submitting abstracts can be found here: https://ialipa-2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/43
- The session is within Topic III - Environmental issues and is numbered III-5.
- Please feel free to email the session conveners with any questions.
Do feel free to forward this invitation with students and colleagues who might be interested. We look forward to receiving your contributions and seeing you in France later in the year.
Best wishes,
Roseanna, Richard, Ginnie, Tim, and Xu.
