B53A:
Land Management in the Earth System: Measurements and Models I


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Session ID#: 59785

Session Description:
Recent estimates suggest that 80% of Earth's ice-free land is actively being managed by humans. Land management decisions, including harvest strategies, species selection, fertilization, irrigation, tillage regimes, and fire management, among others, have profound impacts on the terrestrial biosphere’s provisioning of ecosystem services such as carbon uptake, water retention, and habitat diversity and strongly influence climate by altering local biogeochemical and biogeophysical processes. Further, the impact from these management actions on ecosystem and climate may be scale dependent. We present abstracts that advance theory, observations, and models of management practices at regional to global scales, including those that demonstrate progress in mapping of management by remote sensing, explore socio-ecological theories of macrosystem processes influenced by management, implement new land use practices in Earth system models, and quantify impacts from these advances on forecasts of global nutrient cycling, biodiversity, watershed regulation, and climate feedbacks resulting from land management.
Primary Convener:  Quinn Thomas, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Conveners:  Danica L. Lombardozzi, National Center for Atmospheric Research, CGD, Boulder, United States, Christine Rollinson, The Morton Arboretum, Center for Tree Science, Lisle, United States and Gabriela Shirkey, Michigan State University, Geography, Environment and Spatial Science, East Lansing, United States
Primary Liaison:  Christine Rollinson, The Morton Arboretum, Center for Tree Science, Lisle, United States
Chairs:  Quinn Thomas, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Christine Rollinson, Boston University, Boston, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Gabriela Shirkey, Michigan State University, Geography, Environment and Spatial Science, East Lansing, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0402 Agricultural systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Mapping Nature’s Contributions to People Globally: High Resolution Ecosystem Services Modeling of Socio-Economic Pathways for the IPBES (Invited) (445812)
Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Richard Sharp and Charlotte Weil, Natural Capital Project, Stanford University, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, CA, United States
The use of Shared Socio-Economic Pathways (SSPs) in integrated human-environment research (Invited) (414445)
Brian C O'Neill, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Land-use and land-management scenarios to support regional-global ecosystem assessments (434089)
Louise P Chini1, George C Hurtt1, Valerie A Thomas2, Justin Fisk3, Steve E Frolking4, Matthew Hansen5, Richard Bin Mei6, Peter Potapov5, Ritvik Sahajpal7, Quinn Thomas8, David N Wear9, Paige Tatum Williams2 and Randolph Hamilton Wynne2, (1)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Blacksburg, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (5)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (6)University of Georgia, Athens, United States, (7)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (8)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (9)United States Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Raleigh, NC, United States
Quantifying net greenhouse gas footprint of plantation forestry on tropical peatland – East Sumatra, Indonesia (Invited) (401100)
Chandra Shekhar Deshmukh1, Dony Julius2, Nardi Nardi2, Adly Firma2 and Sofyan Kurnianto3, (1)Asia Pacific Resources International Ltd., Pangkalan Kerinci, Indonesia, (2)APRIL Group, Indonesia, Pekanbaru, Indonesia, (3)APRIL, Indonesia, Pekanbaru, Indonesia
Examining historical impacts and mitigation potential of soil tillage practices in the Community Land Model (364670)
Michael William Graham, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Quinn Thomas, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Danica L. Lombardozzi, National Center for Atmospheric Research, CGD, Boulder, United States, Brian D Strahm, Virginia Tech, Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Megan E O'Rourke, USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Kansas City, United States
Linking measurements and models to estimate landscape-scale impacts of agricultural management on soil carbon and groundwater use (Invited) (450422)
Meagan Schipanski1, Steven T. Rosenzweig2, Andy D Robertson3, Lucretia A Sherrod4, Gregory S McMaster4, Isaya Kisekka5 and Prasanna H Gowda6, (1)Colorado State University, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Fort Collins, United States, (2)General Mills, Brookings, CO, United States, (3)Shell International Exploration and Production, Houston, TX, United States, (4)USDA-ARS, Water Management and Systems Research, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (5)University of California Davis, Land Air and Water Resource/ Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Davis, United States, (6)USDA-ARS, El Reno, OK, United States
Land Management in the Earth System: An Overlooked Driver of Temperature Extremes in Low-Emissions Scenarios (Invited) (453107)
Sonia I Seneviratne1, Annette Hirsch1, Benoit Guillod1, Steven J Phipps2, Andy Pitman3, Richard Wartenburger1, Victor Brovkin4, Edouard Davin1, Markus Donat5, Wim Thiery1, Martha Vogel1 and Detlef van Vuuren6, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, Australia, (3)ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (4)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (5)University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (6)Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, Department of Climate, Air, and Energy, The Hague, Netherlands

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