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

2:00pm - 2:15pm    Effects of Drought Changes on Vegetation in Temperate and Cloud Forest Ecosystems [Invited]    
Presenter(s): Mauro Brum

2:15pm - 2:30pm    Quantifying active season interception and evaporation dynamics of lichen and moss understories in a southern boreal jack pine forest    
Presenter(s): Nathan Riis

2:30pm - 2:45pm    The transpiration – streamflow nexus: early season source evolution and the role of tree water storage    
Presenter(s): Magali Nehemy

2:45pm - 3:00pm    Cryogenic vacuum distillation vs Cavitron methods in ecohydrology: Extraction protocol effects on plant water isotopic values    
Presenter(s): Hongxiu Wang

3:00pm - 3:15pm    Using Ecohydrological Characteristics to Assess the Spatial Variability of Mercury Accumulation in Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) Populations in Ponds across Western Newfoundland    
Presenter(s): Lanthika Dhanapala

3:30pm - 3:45pm    Characterizing pathways of groundwater recharge and discharge in a geologically and topographically complex watershed    
Presenter(s): Reid Dauphinee