Do you measure the responses of ecosystems under human management and influence (grazing lands, agriculture, forestry, urban forestry, facilitated restoration, etc) to changes in land use, changes in management, or global climate change? Please consider submitting your abstract to AGU session GC 032: Footprints: Biogeochemical and Biophysical Impacts of Managed Systems. This is a possible alternate format session which may incorporate short, focused, lighting-style oral presentations.
Session Title: GC032 – Footprints: Biogeochemical and Biophysical Impacts of Managed Systems Session ID#: 26652 Session Description: With increasing populations and higher demand for food, energy, and fiber, managed ecosystems such as croplands, grazing lands and forests play a crucial role in securing these resources, regulating the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and altering the water and energy cycles. This session welcomes submissions that examine the impact of changes in land use – land cover and/or changing management practices – on biogeochemistry (CO2, CH4, and N2O fluxes) and biophysics (water and energy fluxes) of managed systems in both disturbance and recovery phases, and feedbacks on the environment and climate. Submissions that investigate strategies to manage ecosystems sustainably and interactions between C, N, and water cycles are encouraged. We invite results on ground-based and remote sensing observations, as well as modeling studies at any spatial and temporal scale, to advance our understanding of future states of the Earth and to promote a sustainable future. Primary Convener: Ilsa B Kantola, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign Conveners: Nuria Gomez-Casanovas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Elena Blanc-Betes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Tara W Hudiburg, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID -- Ilsa Kantola, PhD Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
