Dear colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting.
We would like to invite your contributions to the session S2.3 (Theme 2) “Quantifying the functions in terrestrial ecosystems: from concepts to data driven methods” at the upcoming ICEI (International Conference on Ecological Informatics) conference, 24-28 September 2018 in Jena, Germany. The abstract submission deadline is 15 April 2018. For author guidelines and submission please follow this link: http://icei2018.uni-jena.de/calls/ Session description: One argument for nature conservation efforts is preserving e.g. ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration potential, water and nutrient retention, among many others. To quantify such processes, we not only need a clear conceptual understanding of ecosystem functioning but also novel ways to quantify them and understand controlling factors at various spatial & temporal scales. In this session we invite contributions on conceptual advances to define and identify “Ecosystem Functioning”. We also aim to discuss latest developments in observing ecosystem functions from in-situ data or with proximal or remote sensing from the site level to the global scale. Innovative advances on nonlinear statistical methods, model-data integration, or inversion studies that help us to constrain ecosystem functioning or to retrieve functional properties of the ecosystems (e.g. radiation use efficiency, nitrogen use efficiency, water use efficiency and so forth) – even if in early stages of development are also encouraged to participate as we strive for a broad session. The goal of our session is to provide a stage for those interested in understanding the ecosystem functioning combining diverse data streams or analytic frameworks. You could find more information on the program and keynote speakers here: http://icei2018.uni-jena.de/program/ The conference also provide a limited number of travel grants for students. For more information: http://icei2018.uni-jena.de/student-travel-grants/ Looking forward to meeting you in Jena. On behalf of the convening team (Talie Musavi, Miguel Mahecha, Xuanlong Ma and Mirco Migliavacca). -- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Department of Biogeochemical Integration Hans Knoll Strasse 10 Jena, 07745, Germany
