Forests dominate much of Canada's landscape and are a critical source of freshwater resources, provide natural infrastructure for flood protection and drinking water supply, and support habitat for culturally and economically important aquatic species. Forest ecosystems are undergoing unprecedented change due to climate variability and disturbances such as wildfire, resource extraction, and urbanization. Novel insights on forest-water relationships from plot to watershed scales are needed to inform effective management approaches. We invite both empirical and modelling studies and contributions that provide new understanding and perspectives on ecohydrological and biogeochemical processes within forested ecosystems, such as evapotranspiration, streamflow generation, and water quality.

Conveners: Audrey Maheu, Institut des sciences de la forêt tempérée, Université du Québec en Outaouais; Magali Nehemy, School of the Environment, Trent University; Sheena Spencer, Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, BC Government; Jason Leach, Canadian Forest Service -- Natural Resources Canada, Great Lakes Forestry Centre

10:30am - 10:45am Seeing the peat for the trees: Ecohydrological controls on peatland-wildfire interactions [Invited]
Presenter(s): Sophie Wilkinson

10:45am - 11:00am Comparison of different remote sensing methods in estimating evapotranspiration at an alpine juvenile forest in the Canadian Rockies
Presenter(s): Rulan Xiao

11:00am - 11:15am Environmental controls on evapotranspiration in the reclaimed boreal forest ecosystem: a multi-year perspective
Presenter(s): Daniel Amaro Medina

11:15am - 11:30am Does species diversity increase tree transpiration? A case study in a common garden experiment, Quebec, Canada
Presenter(s): Arielle Rasoanaivo

11:30am - 11:45am  How do changes in forest structure and composition influence water fluxes? Development of a dense understory layer of American beech in sugar maple dominated stands and its influence on rainfall interception
Presenter(s): Pierrick Arnault

11:45am - 12:00pm Variations in transition season evapotranspiration from a subalpine forest in the Canadian Rockies through wet and dry years
Presenter(s): Lindsey Langs