Hi All,
Sorry for cross posting. I would like to bring your attention to a
special issue that we are organizing on impacts of disturbances and
extreme climate events in Biogeosciences. Guest editors are Drs.
Jingfeng Xiao, Shuguang Liu, and Paul Stoy. The URL of the issue is
http://www.biogeosciences.net/submission/scheduled_special_issues.html#22.
A brief description on the special issue is as follows:
Extreme climate events (e.g., drought, heat and cold waves) and
disturbances (e.g., fire, hurricane, and insect outbreaks) substantially
affect carbon cycle processes. However, their impacts on terrestrial
carbon dynamics over landscapes, regions, and continents are not well
understood. We invite submissions that investigate and quantify the
impacts of extreme climate events and disturbances on the terrestrial
carbon dynamics over various spatial and temporal scales using
observations (e.g., eddy covariance flux measurements, and national
inventories), remote sensing, state-of-the-art modeling approaches
(e.g., ecosystem models, upscaling methods), and model-data fusion
techniques. A special issue focusing on this topic will be timely and
valuable to the research communities of carbon and global change.
Collectively, we believe that this special issue will play a critical
role in our understanding of how extreme climate events and disturbances
influence the terrestrial carbon cycle and increase the visibility and
influences of Biogeosciences in carbon cycle and climate change.
Some specific advantages of having the special issue in Biogeosciences are:
1) Publication date is not limited by the latest paper/slowest
peer-review process: every individual contribution to the special issue
is published as soon as available.
2) Efficient interactive discussion of the common theme on the BGD website.
3) Pre-publication of discussion papers in BGD allows efficient
cross-referencing between the final revised papers in BG.
You are welcomed to submit your high-quality manuscript on impacts of
disturbances and/or extreme climate events to our special
issue.**Submission will close by September 30, 2013. Just let me know if
you have any questions.
Best wishes,
Jingfeng
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Jingfeng Xiao, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Earth Systems Research Center (formerly Complex Systems Research Center)
Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space
University of New Hampshire
449 Morse Hall, 8 College Road
Durham, NH 03824
Email: [email protected]
http://globalecology.unh.edu
Tel: (603) 862-1873; Fax: (603) 862-0188
