A New Direction for Ecuador
Presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso waves t0 supporters during his presidential campaign on April 8 in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
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A New Direction for Ecuador
What the election of Guillermo Lasso as president could mean for the country
Ecuador’s presidential election concluded on April 11 with Guillermo Lasso winning. This was Lasso’s third run at the Ecuadorian presidency. His opponent, Andrés Arauz, is a 36-year-old socialist and protégé of former President Rafael Correa. Lasso will be sworn in on May 24.
Correa was president from 2007 to 2017. He’s been out of office for four years but still casts a long shadow over Ecuadorian politics. Many see Lasso’s election as an attempt to sever Ecuador from Correa’s influence and his socialist policies. Lasso has promised drastic economic change for Ecuador. A millionaire and former banker, he wants to make Ecuador more conservative. A “devotee”
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Oakland University Professor Scott Tiegs is a co-author on a new study that examines how glacier loss, driven by global warming, affects glacier-fed river ecosystems. The study was published March 15 in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Tiegs was part of an international team of researchers led by the University of Leeds (United Kingdom) that measured organic matter decomposition rates in mountain rivers in six countries and four continents. The study found that as glaciers melt, the rivers downstream support higher rates of organic matter decomposition, a major process in the global carbon cycle. This discovery could help researchers better predict how river ecosystems will change as mountains continue to lose ice due to global warming.
Melting glaciers could be triggering a ‘feedback process’ that causes further climate change, according to new research.
An international research team led by the University has for the first time linked glacier-fed mountain rivers with higher rates of plant material decomposition, a major process in the global carbon cycle.
As mountain glaciers melt, water is channelled into rivers downstream. But with global warming accelerating the loss of glaciers, rivers have warmer water temperatures and are less prone to variable water flow and sediment movement. These conditions are then much more favourable for fungi to establish and grow.
Fungi living in these rivers decompose organic matter such as plant leaves and wood, eventually leading to the release of carbon dioxide into the air. The process a key part of global river carbon cycling has now been measured in 57 rivers in six mountain ranges across the world, in Austria, Ecuador, France, New Zealand, Norway and the Unit
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The loss of glaciers worldwide enhances the breakdown of complex carbon molecules in rivers, potentially contributing further to climate change.
An international research team led by the University of Leeds has for the first time linked glacier-fed mountain rivers with higher rates of plant material decomposition, a major process in the global carbon cycle.
As mountain glaciers melt, water is channelled into rivers downstream. But with global warming accelerating the loss of glaciers, rivers have warmer water temperatures and are less prone to variable water flow and sediment movement. These conditions are then much more favourable for fungi to establish and grow.
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