IPA-IAL 2025 - Resilience and recovery in lake systems across time and space session

Dear Colleagues,

 

As the IAL/IPA 2025 abstract submission deadline draws near, May 30th 2025, we invite you to submit an abstract to our session: Resilience and recovery in lake systems across time and space. 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 event will take place in Aix les Bains, France between 6^th-10^th October 2025. More information about the conference can be found on their website.

 

We look forward to receiving your contributions and seeing you in France later in the year.

 

Best wishes,

Roseanna, Richard, Ginnie, Tim, and Xu.

 

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 30^th May 2025.
• Instructions for submitting abstracts.
• The session is within Topic III - Environmental issues and is numbered III-5.
• Please feel free to email the session conveners with any questions.

 

 

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