Dear colleagues, We invite abstracts to be submitted to the following special AGU session: B16: Biological Disturbances and Biogeochemical Cycling
Description: Biological disturbances such as herbivory and pathogenicity can result in large changes to vegetation dynamics and biogeochemical fluxes. Biological events may have different ecosystem consequences than other disturbances; for example, insect infestations typically are not stand replacing and the understory and soil may be left relatively undisturbed, unlike most fire and harvesting events. Climate change is expected to increase the frequency, intensity and scale of biological disturbances in the future. We encourage measurements or modeling submissions that focus on process-level understanding on the consequences of and recovery from biological disturbance at different scales of biological organization from organism to ecosystem to region. Submission Deadline: August 4, 2011 AGU Meeting website: sites.agu.org/fallmeeting/ sites.agu.org/fallmeeting/scientific-program/session-search/102 Conveners: David Reed ([email protected]) Paul Stoy ([email protected]) Please feel free to distribute this message to colleagues and collaborators that may be interested in this AGU session. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions about the session and please remember that the abstract deadline is earlier this year. Thank you, Paul Stoy & David Reed
