Dear Colleagues, We invite you to submit abstracts to the AGU 2015 Fall Meeting session # 8197 What the heck is ecohydrologic resistance and resilience? Abstract must be submitted not later than August 5th, 2015.
We are also exited to announce the following confirmed presenters, whose backgrounds cover an array of approaches on the topic. Irena Creed, University of Western Ontario, Canada http://www.uwo.ca/biology/faculty/creed/ Tim Peterson, University of Melbourne, Australia http://www.ie.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff.php?person_ID=141135 Larry Band, University of North Caroline at Chapel Hill, USA http://ecohydrology.web.unc.edu/people/ Session ID#: 8197 Session Description: The physical structure of the landscape can increase the capacity to withstand (resistance) and the ability to recover from (resilience) environmental change in the form of altered climate or land cover. Identifying systems that are resistant and resilient to altered ecohydrological function is critical to focusing management efforts and engineering sustainable systems. The key challenges in this effort are 1) develop theories and tools to quantify ecohydrological resistance and resilience and 2) identify processes and attributes that enhance ecohydrological resistance and resilience. In this session, we invite contributions that use theoretical, observational, or modeling approaches to address these key research challenges. We also welcome case studies demonstrating the effects of varying ecohydrological resistance at the watershed to continental scales. Conveners: Adrian Harpold, University of Nevada, Reno Pamela Sullivan, University of Kansas
