Session Announcement and Call for Abstracts
Monitoring and Assessing the Impacts of Disturbance on the Terrestrial
Carbon Budget
American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
15-19 December 2008
San Francisco, California
Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 September 2008
For further information, please go to:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=71
Or contact:
Eric Kasischke
Email: ekasisch [at] umd.edu
Papers are invited for Session B03: "Monitoring and Assessing the
Impacts of Disturbance on the Terrestrial Carbon Budget" being convened
at the AGU Fall Meeting on 15-19 December 2008 in San Francisco,
California.
Session Description:
Disturbance is a common characteristic for almost all terrestrial
ecosystems, occurring across a variety of spatial and temporal scales.
Variations in the disturbance regime affect a variety of ecosystem
processes and functions, and the legacies from previous disturbances can
last for decades to centuries. In particular, natural disturbances and
human activities can substantially alter the patterns and affect the
underlying processes that create and transform terrestrial sources and
sinks of carbon dioxide (CO2), thus having important feedbacks to
climate change. Recent evidence suggests that changes in climate are
increasing the frequency and severity of forest fires and insect
outbreaks, potentially creating a large source of carbonn dioxide (CO2)
to the atmosphere from terrestrial ecosystems. This special session
sponsored by Biogeosciences will focus on the impacts of disturbance on
the terrestrial carbon budget.
For this session we invite abstracts from researchers of a variety of
disciplines, including those who are: (a) using land-surface remote
sensing data to monitor and analyze characteristics of different
disturbance regimes and monitor how ecosystems recover from disturbance;
(b) using field-based data (including forest inventory data) to analyze
characteristics of different disturbance regimes and assess how
ecosystems recover from disturbance; (c) integrating information from
multiple sources to determine how disturbances are impacting the
terrestrial carbon budget across different spatial and temporal scales.
We encourage submissions focused on different research topics related to
these issues, and from a range of regions across the globe, including
arctic and boreal ecosystems.
For abstract submission procedures and instructions, please go to:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/?content=program
For session information, please go to:
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm08/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=71
Conveners:
Eric Kasischke
Email: ekasisch [at] umd.edu
A. David McGuire
Email: ffadm [at] uaf.edu
Scott Goetz
Email: sgoetz [at] whrc.org
Daniel Hayes
Email: ffdjh1 [at] uaf.edu