B31F:
Soil Carbon Stocks, Fluxes, and Vulnerability at Large Spatial Scales I


Session ID#: 8182

Session Description:
Soil carbon is the largest terrestrial carbon stock, but there is little consensus on likely soil-atmosphere feedbacks with climate change, highlighting significant gaps in our understanding of large-scale soil carbon cycling. Static estimates and maps of soil organic carbon pools have existed for decades, but how do dynamic components of soil carbon—such as fluxes across ecosystem boundaries or vulnerability to climate change or management practices—vary at landscape to global scales? What are useful ways to consider fluxes and vulnerability at watershed to regional to global scales, and what are the necessary ingredients for these considerations? Ultimately, what can we reasonably project about future interactions between belowground carbon and the changing climate? We intend this session as a venue for researchers investigating soil carbon stocks, fluxes, and vulnerability at large spatial scales. Approaches that harness data generated by multiple, complementary approaches in order to address large-scale questions are particularly solicited.
Primary Convener:  Lucas E Nave, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Conveners:  Chris Swanston, USDA Forest Service, Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, Houghton, MI, United States and Nancy Cavallaro, USDA/NIFA, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Lucas E Nave, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Chris Swanston, US Forest Service, Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, Houghton, MI, United States and Nancy Cavallaro, USDA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Nancy Cavallaro, USDA Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

William J Riley1, Dipankar Dwivedi2, Bardan Ghimire3, Forrest M. Hoffman4, George Shu Heng Pau1, James Tremper Randerson5, Chaopeng Shen6, Jinyun Tang7 and Qing Zhu1, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Clark University, Worcester, MA, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (5)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (6)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, United States, (7)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States
Rodrigo Vargas1, Mario Guevara1, Carlos Cruz Gaistardo2, Fernando Paz3, Bernardus de Jong3 and Jorge Etchevers3, (1)University of Delaware, Plant and Soil Sciences, Newark, DE, United States, (2)INEGI, Aguascalientes, Mexico, (3)COLPOS, Montecillo, Mexico
Grant M Domke, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States, Charles Hobart Perry, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States, Brian F Walters, Northern Research Station, Saint Paul, MN, United States, Christopher W Woodall, Northern Research Station, Durham, United States, Lucas E Nave, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Chris Swanston, US Forest Service, Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, Houghton, MI, United States
Yingchun Liu1,2, Guobin Zhang3, Zehong Xu3, Xianlian Gao3, Guirui Yu4, Lijun Zuo5, Ruiping Hou3, Jinping Gao3, Jian Chen6, Yuelan Hao3 and Tianyu An3, (1)State Forestry Administration, Academy of Forestry Inventory and Planning, Beijing, China, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Academy of Forestry Inventory and Planning, State Forestry Administration, Beijing, China, (4)Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (5)Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (6)The University of Alabama, Geological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, United States
Gustaf Hugelius, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, Julie Loisel, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Glen M MacDonald, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States, Robert B Jackson, Stanford University, School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, Claire C Treat, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Merritt R Turetsky, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Boulder, United States and Zicheng Yu, Lehigh University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, PA, United States
Kristofer D Johnson, USDA Forest Service Northern Research Statiuon, Newtown Square, PA, United States, Dave D'Amore, USDA Forest Service, Juneau, AK, United States, Neal J. Pastick, Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, Helene Genet, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Umakant Mishra, Argonne National Laboratory, Environmental Science Division, Argonne, United States, Bruce K Wylie, USGS, EROS Data Center, Baltimore, MD, United States and Norman B Bliss, ASRC InuTeq, Sioux Falls, SD, United States

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