Dear colleagues, we would like to invite you to submit abstracts to our AGU session, "Toward Better Understanding of the Impacts of Climate Variability: From Ecosystem Processes to Agricultural Adaptation and Decision Making." Invited speakers for this session include Drs. Christine Rollinson (Boston University) and Tom Evans (Indiana University). We welcome submissions across multiple areas that consider effects of climate variability. See abstract and session info below.
AGU abstract submissions site: https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/abstract-submissions/ Session ID#: 13898 Session Description: Climate variability (CV) is a critical driver of climate change impacts to both managed and unmanaged ecosystems. To properly understand its ecological impacts, it’s necessary to quantify how ecosystems have historically responded to climate variability, and to characterize the uncertainty in projected impacts. In agricultural systems, assessing impacts of climate variability also requires understanding dynamics of farmer adaptation and decision-making. Here we seek new efforts to quantify both historical and future impacts of climate variability on unmanaged ecosystems and in agriculture, the most extensive managed ecosystem: e.g., i) empirical/process-based methods for estimating CV impacts to ecosystems across multiple spatio-temporal scales; ii) identifying key sources of CV and methodological factors lead to uncertainty; iii) new CV forecasting methods at relevant scales for understanding ecosystem response; iv) translating forecasts into useful decision support for natural resource managers and farmers; v) attributing farmer decisions to CV viz a viz socioeconomic and ecological circumstances. Primary Convener: Amor V M Ines, Michigan State University, Department of plant, soil and microbial sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States Conveners: Lyndon D Estes1, Jeffrey W Atkins2 and Erin Swails2, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States(2)University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States Cross-Listed: A - Atmospheric Sciences H - Hydrology IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences Index Terms: 1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE] 1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE] 1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE] 1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]
