GC13D:
Livestock, Land Use, and the Environment Posters

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Session ID#: 13782

Session Description:
Raising livestock requires nearly a quarter of the terrestrial land
surface for pasture and a substantial fraction of all grain produced.
While there are important provisioning and cultural services
associated with livestock production, there are serious environmental
impacts, including deforestation, land degradation, greenhouse gas
emissions, perturbed nutrient cycles, and water quality issues. This
session focuses on new field, modeling, and/or remote sensing
approaches for monitoring and assessing livestock systems in an era of
rapid environmental change. This session is intended to cover: i) monitoring
and characterization of livestock systems ii) environmental impacts of
livestock systems including pasture degradation, iii) characteristics
of mixed crop/livestock systems iv) scenario modeling and landscape
optimization v) methods for achieving improved outcomes.
Primary Convener:  James S Gerber, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Conveners:  Marcos Heil Costa, UFV Federal University of Vicosa, Vicosa, Brazil, Mario Herrero, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), St. Lucia, QLD, Australia and William Kolby Smith, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States
Chairs:  James S Gerber, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States and William Kolby Smith, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States
OSPA Liaison:  James S Gerber, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
Index Terms:

0402 Agricultural systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Mapping and understanding pasturelands in Brazil in pursuit of a sustainable livestock intensification (Invited) (120371)
Laerte Guimaraes Ferreira1, Fernando M Araujo2, Leandro L Parente2, Arielle E Arantes2, Adriano S Faria2, Janete R Silva2, Claudinei Oliveira dos Santos Sr3, Anna Santos2, Sergio Nogueira2, Lana Mara2 and Guilherme Arantes1, (1)UFG Federal University of Goiás, Lapig - Image Processing and GIS Lab, Goiania, Brazil, (2)Federal University of Goiás, Goiania, Brazil, (3)IPAM Amazon Environmental Research Institute, Brasilia, Brazil
New Feed Sources Key to Ambitious Climate Targets (Invited) (120547)
Brian Walsh, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, Mario Herrero, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), St. Lucia, QLD, Australia, Philippe Ciais, LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France, Michael Obersteiner, IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria, Detlef van Vuuren, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Department of Climate, Air, and Energy, The Hague, Netherlands and Josep Penuelas, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, Barcelona Bellaterra, Spain
Future Scenarios of Livestock and Land Use in Brazil (121538)
Marcos Heil Costa and Gabriel Abrahão, UFV Federal University of Vicosa, Vicosa, Brazil
A comparison of non-parametric techniques to estimate incident photosynthetically active radiation from MODIS for monitoring primary production (151247)
Meredith G. L. Brown, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, Tao He, Wuhan University, School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan, China and Shunlin Liang, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States
Modeling ecological synergies and trade-offs in livestock production systems in Kenya (162991)
Virginia Anne Kowal1, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer2 and Perrine Hamel1, (1)Natural Capital Project, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Natural Capital Project, Stanford University, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, CA, United States
Terra Incognita: Absence of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations from the National Land Cover Database and Implications for Environmental Risk (163475)
Katherine L Martin, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, Raleigh, NC, United States, Ryan E Emanuel, North Carolina State University, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, Raleigh, NC, United States and James Matthew Vose, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Center for Integrated Forest Science, Raleigh, NC, United States
Mapping the dynamics of juniper forest encroachment into grasslands during 1984-2010 based on PALSAR and Landsat images (169406)
Jie Wang1, Xiangming Xiao2, Yuanwei Qin3 and Jinwei Dong3, (1)College of Grassland Science and Technology,China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, (2)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Biological Sciences, Norman, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States
Can Managed Grazing be Part of Healthy Agroecosystems? Impacts of Various Systems on Soil Water and other Ecosystem Services (170942)
Marcia S DeLonge, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, Andrea Basche, Union of Concerned Scientists Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Jasmin Gonzalez, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Food and Environment Program, Washington, DC, United States
Grazing alters net ecosystem C fluxes and the global warming potential of a subtropical pasture (179089)
Nuria Gomez-Casanovas, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Plant Biology, Urbana, IL, United States, Nicholas DeLucia, University of Illinois, urbana, IL, United States, Carl Bernacchi, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, DOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, Urbana, United States, Elizabeth Boughton, Archbold Biological Station, Venus, FL, United States, Samuel Chamberlain, Colorado State University, Department of Biology, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Jed P Sparks, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States and Evan H DeLucia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation; Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology; Department of Plant Biology, Urbana, IL, United States
Mapping Forage Resources Using Earth Observation Data: A Case Study to Assess the Relationship Between Herbaceous and Woody Cover Components as Determinants of Large Herbivore Distribution in Sub-Saharan Africa (181410)
Njoki NJOKI Kahiu, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, United States and Niall P Hanan, New Mexico State University Main Campus, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Las Cruces, United States
Measuring ecological function on California's rangelands (185109)
Elizabeth Porzig, Point Blue Conservation Science, Petaluma, CA, United States
Precipitation variability on global pasturelands may affect food security in livestock-dependent regions (185136)
Lindsey Sloat1, James S Gerber2, Leah H Samberg1, Paul C West2, Mario Herrero3, Power Brendan3, Godde Cecile3, Waha Katharina3 and William Kolby Smith4, (1)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Institute on the Environment, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (2)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (3)Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), St. Lucia, QLD, Australia, (4)University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States
Global assessment of livestock intensification potential (190541)
James S Gerber, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States

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