GC24B:
Dynamics of Arid and Mountain Landscapes: Evaluating Change in Vulnerable, Variable Environments I

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Session ID#: 32469

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:

How will wind and water erosion change in drylands in the future? (Invited) (208395)
Greg S Okin, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Osvaldo Sala, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States and Enrique R Vivoni, Arizona State University, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Tempe, AZ, United States
Mountain Plant Community Sentinels: AWOL (Invited) (209575)
George P Malanson, University of Iowa, Geographical & Sutainability Sciences, Iowa City, IA, United States
Plant Functional Traits Are More Consistent Than Plant Species on Periglacial Patterned Ground in the Rocky Mountains of Montana (230447)
Martha E Apple, Montana Tech of The University of Montana, Butte, MT, United States, Macy Kara Ricketts, The University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States and James H R Gallagher, OPeNDAP, Inc., Butte, United States
Variations in snow cover seasonality across the Kyrgyz Republic from 2000 to 2016 revealed through MODIS Terra and Aqua snow products (238057)
Monika Anna Tomaszewska, South Dakota State University, Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence (GSCE), 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
Improving dynamic global vegetation model (DGVM) simulation of western U.S. rangelands vegetation seasonal phenology and productivity (276074)
Becky K Kerns, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, Corvallis, United States, John B Kim, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, United States, Michelle A Day, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Bear Pitts, Oregon State University, Department of Forest Ecosystems & Society, Corvallis, OR, United States and Raymond J Drapek, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, United States
Desertification in 1957-2015 Estimated from Vegetation Coverage and Climate Conditions on the Tibetan Plateau (284971)
Lan Cuo, ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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