BEMP: Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Report

The phenology of the Bosque indicates an increase or decrease in global warming because it shows exactly when changes in the Bosque start and end. The ground water shows this because by looking at all months for years it can be seen when the water levels were high each year and find a trend. By just looking at the same month for many years it will show what has happened. If global warming were to get worse the water levels would have gone lower (the number from the surface to the water would be bigger). This trend could be tracked long term by measuring the ground water from years. This has been done by a program called BEMP: Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program. This program measured the ground water of the Rio Grande for many years. One site was measured from 2012-2018. The water trends are shown for March in the graph above. This shows how global warming has affected the Bosque because you can see that for most of the years the water levels have gotten lower (higher numbers on the graph). This means that Global warming has gotten worse because it shows that there has been less water in the ground because as the world gets warmer water evaporates faster, this would cause there to be less water. It can be assumed …show more content…
What they can do is make sure that it is not influenced by any outside or human actions. The role that they should play is to protect the ecosystem of and around the Rio Grande. They should make sure that programs that monitor the Bosque and other ecosystems stay so that trends and predictions can be made. This can help the ecosystem be much healthier. It can make sure that actions be taken when a problem is realized. This is much easier to see when there is an organization that is meant for monitoring these ecosystems is there all the time measuring the different parts of every ecosystem. The federal governments' role is to monitor and protect ecosystems and keep the ecosystems