Dear Colleagues, Please consider submitting an abstract to our session *Past, present and future of dryland ecosystems: local trends to global impacts* <https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session24251> (Session B055) at AGU this Fall.
*Confirmed invited speakers:* Joel Biederman (USDA Agricultural Research Service, Tucson, Arizona) Sasha Reed (USGS Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, Utah) *Session Description:* Dryland ecosystems cover 35% of the world’s surface, host major centers of global plant diversity, support over third of the global human population mainly in the developing countries, and play an important role in land CO2 sink. Yet, drylands are in zones of transition that will be affected by future global change, including drought and land degradation, with unclear consequences on global carbon and hydrological budgets, ecosystem services and sustainable livelihoods. In this session we seek to i) highlight advances in our collective understanding of carbon, water and vegetation-related processes in dryland ecosystems under changing climate and management across temporal and spatial scales, and ii) provide perspectives on needs and directions for future research. Contributions from both modeling and experimental studies across a wide range of fields are welcome. *You can submit your abstract here: * https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session24251 Submission Deadline: 2nd August. Please forward to interested colleagues. We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans! Natasha MacBean (University of Arizona) Istem Fer (Boston University) -- Dr Natasha MacBean | Associate Research Scientist School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona Email: [email protected] Web: www.nmacbean.wordpress.com
