@AGU22: SSS8.6 Coevolution and Interactions of Soils, Landforms and Vegetation
Dee Kay
The EGU has extended the deadline for abstract submission until Friday, 14 January 2022 (13:00 CET). Please, consider summitting an abstract to the EGU 2022 session SSS8.6/BG3/GM4 “Coevolution and Interactions of Soils, Landforms and Vegetation”. This session looks back on an exciting series of sessions on landform-soil-vegetation patterns, coevolution feedbacks and ecosystem stability thresholds that has been running annually at EGU since 2013, always providing a great success and an important source of many interesting scientific discussions. Please, find the session description below.
To access the abstract submission site for this session, please, click on the “Abstract submission” link in:
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/session/42332
The submission guidelines are at: https://egu22.eu/abstracts_and_programme/how_to_submit_an_abstract.html
With apologies for crossposting,
The conveners
M. Moreno de las Heras (UB, Spain), P. M. Saco (UoN, Australia), O. Yetemen (ITU-EIES, Turkey) and J. Rodriguez (UoN, Australia),
Best wishes,
Mariano
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Session Description:
The present context of accelerated changes in both climate and land use imposes an unprecedent pressure on a number of vulnerable ecosystems including wetlands, forests and rangelands, in which vegetation closely interacts and coevolves with soils and landforms. Complex interactions between climate, soils and biotic factors are involved in the development of landform-soil-vegetation feedbacks and play an important role in making ecosystems resilient to disturbances. In addition, large shifts in the distribution of vegetation and soils are associated with losses of ecosystem services (including carbon capture), frequently involving thresholds of ecosystem stability and nonlinear responses to both human and climatic pressures. This session will focus on ecogeomorphological and ecohydrological aspects of landscapes (including their connectivity), conservation of soil resources, and the restoration of ecosystem services and functions. We welcome theoretical, modelling, and empirical studies addressing the distribution of vegetation and coevolving soils and landforms, and particularly, contributions with a wide appreciation of the soil erosion-vegetation relationships that rule the formation of landscape-level spatial organization. We also welcome studies describing the implications of these spatial patterns of soils and vegetation for the resilience and stability of ecosystems under the pressure of climate change and/or human disturbances.
Conveners:
M. Moreno de las Heras (UB, Spain), P. M. Saco (UoN, Australia), O. Yetemen (ITU-EIES, Turkey) and J. Rodriguez (UoN, Australia)
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