Please consider submitting an abstract to our AGU Fall 2018 session on forest management, observations, and modeling
Conveners: Ankur R Desai (UW-Madison), Christy Rollinson (Morton Arboretum), Paul Duffy (Neptune Co.), Mike Dietze (Boston U.) Invited presenters: Christina Staudhammer (U Alabama), Chandra Shekhar Deshmukh (APRIL Asia) B029: Forests in the macrosystem: Advancing observations and models of land management at regional to global scales Management of forests for products, wildlife, and recreation has profound impacts on the terrestrial biosphere’s provisioning of ecosystem services such as carbon uptake, water retention, and habitat diversity. Further, the impact from these management actions on ecosystem response may be scale dependent. However, global Earth system models typically use crude approximations of forest management, while stand-scale models in silviculture or hydrology are site specific. We seek abstracts that advance theory, observations, or models of management practices at regional to global scales, including presentations that demonstrate progress in mapping of management by remote sensing, socio-ecological theories of macrosystem processes influenced by management, novel model-data fusion approaches for inclusion of land use practices in Earth system models and dynamic global vegetation models, and quantifying impacts from these advances on forecasts of global carbon and nutrient cycling, biodiversity, watershed hydrologic regulation, biophysical eco-climate feedbacks and teleconnections, and climate change mitigation and adaptation policies. ------------------------------------------------- Ankur R Desai, Professor Dept of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences University of Wisconsin - Madison http://flux.aos.wisc.edu <http://flux.aos.wisc.edu/> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> @profdesai <https://twitter.com/profdesai>
