GC31B:
Dynamics of Arid and Mountain Landscapes: Evaluating Change in Vulnerable, Variable Environments II Posters

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Session ID#: 24571

Session Description:
More than a quarter of the planet’s inhabitants live in drylands or above 2100 meters. Yet, anthropogenic land dynamics in both mountain and arid landscapes are understudied, despite the UN’s 2003 designation of each December 11 as International Mountain Day, and the UN’s designation of 2010-2020 as the Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification. It is critical to understand recent and ongoing land dynamics in these vulnerable and variable environments in the light of pervasive global change. We invite disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary presentations whether they be case studies, technical/methodological advances, or syntheses on the topic of evaluating changing arid or mountain landscapes.
Primary Convener:  Geoffrey M Henebry, South Dakota State University, Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence, Brookings, SD, United States
Convener:  Kirsten de Beurs, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States
Chairs:  Geoffrey M Henebry, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences & Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, United States and Kirsten de Beurs, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Geoffrey M Henebry, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences & Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

0468 Natural hazards [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4330 Vulnerability [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Large-scale estimates of gross primary production on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau based on remote sensing data (219157)
Minna Ma II1, Wenping Yuan2, Jie Dong3, Fawei Zhang4, Wenwen Cai5 and Hongqin Li4, (1)Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, (2)University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (3)Zhejiang University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Hangzhou, China, (4)Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China, (5)SuperMap Software, Beijing, China
Variation in Phenometric Lapse Rates in Pasture Resources across Four Rayons in Kyrgyzstan (251129)
Geoffrey M Henebry, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences & Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, United States, Monika Anna Tomaszewska, South Dakota State University, Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence (GSCE), Brookings, SD, United States and Kamilya Kelgenbaeva, South Dakota State University, Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence, Brookings, SD, United States
Role of Terrain Variables for Natural Disaster Monitoring Using Satellite Images in the High Mountain Areas of the Kyrgyz Republic (266228)
Kamilya Kelgenbaeva, South Dakota State University, Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence, Brookings, SD, United States and Geoffrey M Henebry, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences & Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, United States
The Role of Nitrogen-Fixing Symbionts in Primary Succession on the Juneau Icefield (248858)
Tristan Walker-Andrews, Juneau Icefield Research Program, Juneau, AK, United States, Susannah Cooley, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, United States, Megan Veitz, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Catharine White, Folsom, CA, United States

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