Dear Colleagues, We invite you to submit an abstract for the Fall 2016 American Geophysical Union GLOBAL CHANGE Session 13826:
"Scale-dependent ecological dynamics in a rapidly changing Arctic" The abstract submission deadline is Wednesday, 3 August 2016. Abstracts can be submitted at https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13826 Session description: The Arctic is rapidly changing as the climate warms, yet how this change is altering ecological dynamics across scales is poorly understood. Decades of plot- and satellite-based studies underpin our understanding of change in Arctic systems, but linking patterns and processes across levels of ecological organization has traditionally been hampered by a lack of moderate-scale data. The application of emerging methods - including the integration of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), time-lapse photography, multi-platform satellite observations and cross site ecological data synthesis * are filling a long-standing gap in our understanding of how scale affects observed and predicted ecological change. This session will provide a forum for researchers from the fields of tundra remote sensing, phenology, population- and ecosystem- ecology to address concepts of scale-dependent ecological dynamics in high-latitude ecosystems. Each presentation will address how working across scales can improve our understanding of the ecological processes reshaping the rapidly changing Arctic. Conveners: Jeffrey Kerby, Isla Myers-Smith, Andrew Cunliffe, and Howard Epstein. For further session information, go to: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session13826 For additional questions/information please email: Jeff Kerby at jeffrey.ke...@dartmouth.edu (note: Jeff Kerby will be out of contact for fieldwork from July 15 until after the submission deadline. For questions that arise after July 15, please email Howie Epstein at he...@virginia.edu )
