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Session Proposal: Advances in Ecosystem Studies for Natural and Managed Landscapes (AGU25)

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Advances in Ecosystem Studies for Natural and Managed Landscapes

Session ID#: 247938

Session Description:
It has been a longstanding yet critical need to understand and predict ecosystem dynamics in natural and managed landscapes due to the complex ecological, hydrological, and biogeochemical processes and their feedback across multiple spatiotemporal scales. Such need persists under the accelerating environmental and anthropogenic changes across scales. This session's objective is to foster collaboration on ecosystem dynamics that links key biotic and abiotic functions for sustainable resource use efficiency. We welcome studies that leverage a broad range of model- and data-driven approaches to study ecosystem dynamics across various natural and managed landscapes, including but not limited to: 1) Novel ecosystem modeling frameworks (e.g.,  Bayesian networks, AI, machine learning); 2) Landscape-oriented approaches that consider the connectivity concept as a management tool; 3) Empirical studies based on  remote sensing, and field observations; 4) Cross-scale interactions (local to global) and human-natural system couplings ; 5) Applications for ecosystem resilience, carbon cycling, and biodiversity.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
Index Terms:

0402 Agricultural systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1402 - Critical Zone [CRITICAL ZONE]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener:  Thanos Papanicolaou, USDA-ARS, National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment, Ames, United States
Conveners:  Hong-Yi Li, University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, United States, Renato P. M. Frasson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States and Timothy R Filley, The University of Oklahoma, Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, United States
 
Forestry’s effect on European species richness: a meta-analysis using primary forests (1846440)
Camille Volle1, Kristina Blennow2 and Anders Ahlström1, (1)Lund University, Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund, Sweden, (2)SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
 
Machine Learning and Proximal Sensing for Predicting Biophysical Function of Managed Ecosystems (1859698)
Darren Drewry1, James Cross1, Sana Zeeshan Shirazi2, Srishti Gaur2, Kaniska Mallick Sr.3, Guler Aslan Sungur4 and Andy VanLoocke5, (1)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, United States, (3)Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Environmental Research & Innovation (ERIN) Department, Belvaux, Luxembourg, (4)Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States, (5)Iowa State University, Department of Agronomy, Ames, United States
 
Multitemporal Assessment of Oil Spill Impacts on Vegetation in Nigeria’s Niger Delta (1859816)
Francis Akinluyi, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria, Department of Remote Sensing and GIS, Akure, Nigeria and Goodness Adeleke Jr., Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria,, Department of Remote Sensing and GIS, Akure, Nigeria
 
Ecosystem Processes at the Watershed Scale: Learning from the forest to design restoration of managed landscapes (1860026)
Lawrence E Band, University of Virginia, Environmental Sciences / Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Rouyu Zhang, University of Virginia, Environmental Science, Charlottesville, United States and Daniel Pelletier, University of Virginia, Department of Civil Engineering, Charlottesville, VA, United States
 
Agent based simulation for analysis of impact of atmospehric changes on pollination service (1863140)
Kenji Miki, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Chiba, JAPAN
 
Unraveling the capacity of willow afforestation to sustain long-term soil organic carbon sequestration (1867133)
Dong Kook Woo, Keimyung University, Department of Civil Engineering, Daegu, South Korea
 
The Use of Physico-Chemical and Haemato-Biological Indices as Metrics for Assessing the Ecosystem Integrity of Lagos Coastal Water. (1868752)
Oluseyi Olaide Lawal, Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos State, Nigeria, Lagos, Nigeria and Prince EMEKA Ndimele, Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos State, Nigeria, Department of Fisheries, Faculty of Science,, LAGOS, Nigeria
 
From Infiltration to Soil Erosion: A Modeling Framework for the Complete Process Chain (1870280)
Li Chen, NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China and Songbai Wu, Northwest University, Xi'an, China
 
Agroecosystem Model Improvement for USDA NRCS Conservation Assessment (1874422)
Limei Ran, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Raleigh, United States, Jaehak Jeong, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Temple, United States and Evelyn Steglich, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Temple, United States
 
Expanding the Agro-IBIS model to examine the environmental impacts of rotational and continuous grazing (1874432)
Hunter Mackin, University of Wisconsin Madison, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Madison, WI, United States, Christopher J Kucharik, University of Wisconsin Madison, Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences, Madison, United States and Randall Jackson, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences, Madison, United States
 
Global Patterns of Urban Vegetation Resilience in the Face of Climate Change and Urbanization (1879396)
Zhengfei Guo1, Giovanni Forzieri2, Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez3, Yuhao Feng1, Jianguo Wu4, Nathan McDowell5, Yingyi Zhao1, Guangqin Song1, Xiang Zeng1, Peng Gong6, Yuyu Zhou7 and Jin Wu1, (1)The University of Hong Kong, School of Biological Sciences, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (2)University of Florence, Florence, Italy, (3)Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Penrith, Australia, (4)Arizona State University, Arizona, United States, (5)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (6)The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, (7)The University of Hong Kong, Department of Geography, Hongkong, China
 
Climate-induced sediment budget transitions in dryland catchments: insights from landscape evolution numerical experiments across timescales (Invited) (1890456)
Yuval Shmilovitz1, Matthew W Rossi2, Victor Gensini3, Walker S Ashley3,4, Alex Haberlie3, Allison C. Michaelis3 and Gregory E Tucker5, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Earth Lab (CIRES), Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Northern Illinois University, Department of Earth, Atmosphere, and Environment, DeKalb, United States, (4)Department of Geography, Dekalb, IL, United States, (5)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Geological Sciences and CIRES, Boulder, United States
 
Coupling Diurnal Water Use Efficiency with Environmental Stress: Implications for Climate-Driven Ecosystem Responses (1890752)
Shreedevi Moharana, Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Warangal, Warangal, India and Phanindra Kbvn Prof, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Telangana, India., Department of Civil Engineering, Sangareddy, India
 
The USDA ARS National Program 211: Water Availability and Watershed Management Research Project (1891880)
Teferi Tsegaye, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville, MD, UNITED STATES, Chris S. Renschler, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory, West Lafayette, United States, Martin Locke, USDA-ARS-National Sedimentation Laboratory, Oxford, United States, Michael H Cosh, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, United States, Claire Baffaut, USDA-ARS, Columbia, United States, Amanda Nelson, USDA ARS, Leland (Stoneville), United States, Philip Heilman, USDA-ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center, Tucson, United States, Thanos Papanicolaou, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States, Kyle Mankin, USDA ARS, Fort Collins, United States and Girma Birru, USDA-ARS, Agroecosystem Management Research Unit, Lincoln, United States
 
Six years of gross primary production measurements from eddy covariance flux towers at the Central Plains Experimental Range in relation to contrasting grazing management regimes (1895018)
Mikael Hiestand1, David Augustine1, Justin Derner2, Lauren M Porensky3, David Smith1, Erica Peirce1 and David Lewis Hoover4, (1)USDA-ARS Plains Area, Rangeland Resources and Systems Research Unit, Fort Collins, United States, (2)USDA-ARS Plains Area, Rangeland Resources and Systems Research Unit, Cheyenne, United States, (3)USDA ARS, Rangeland Resources and Systems Research Unit, Fort Collins, United States, (4)USDA Agriculture Research Service, Fort Collins, CO, United States
 
Targeting agricultural management practices to reduce nitrogen loading: A Data-informed modeling assessment (1902181)
Chaoqun Lu1, Hai Huang1 and Shuchao Ye2, (1)Iowa State University, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Ames, United States, (2)Iowa State University, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Ames, IA, United States
 
Field-scale analysis of carbon flux dynamics in agricultural ecosystems of southern Texas using Eddy Covariance Measurements (1902809)
Birhan Tikuye1, Ram Ray2, Bhagya Deegala2 and Kumar Nirmal2, (1)Prairie View A & M University, Cooperative Agricultural Research Center, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Prairie View, United States, (2)Prairie View A&M University, Cooperative Agricultural Research Center, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, Prairie View, United States
 
A Cross-Scale Perspective on Ecosystem Sensitivity from the Lens of Soil Moisture (1903091)
Binayak Mohanty and Debasish Mishra, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States
 
A High-Resolution, Observation-Based Biomass Map over the Contiguous U.S. (1904861)
Lingbo Li1, Xiaojuan Yang2, Daniel M Ricciuto3 and Hong-Yi Li1, (1)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States
 
A Multi-Model Framework for Simulating Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in U.S. Agricultural Systems (1914493)
Yushu Xia1, Alexander C Ruane1,2, Bruno Basso3, Cynthia Rosenzweig1, Erik Mencos1, Gerrit Hoogenboom4, Jaehak Jeong5, Javier Osorio Leyton5, Jeffrey G Arnold6,7, Jia Deng8,9, Jonas Jägermeyr1, Kaiguang Zhao10, Luca Doro11,12, Meijian Yang1, Natalie Kozlowski13, Natalja Čerkasova5, Sotirios Archontoulis14, Stephen J Del Grosso15,16, Stephen M Ogle15, Terry Nipp5,17, Xuesong Zhang18, Ye Yuan1, Limei Ran19 and Evelyn Steglich20, (1)Columbia University of New York, NYC, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (3)Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, (4)University of Florida, Gainesville, United States, (5)Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Temple, United States, (6)Texas A&M University, College Station, United States, (7)USDA-ARS, Temple, United States, (8)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (9)DNDC Applications, Research and Training LLC, Durham, United States, (10)The Ohio State University, Columbus, United States, (11)University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy, (12)Digital Landscape Solutions LLC, Cheyenne, United States, (13)Columbia University, NYC, United States, (14)Iowa State University, Ames, United States, (15)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, (16)USDA -ARS, Fort Collins, United States, (17)Agricultural and Environmental Geographic Information Systems, Ltd., Washington D.C., United States, (18)USDA-ARS, Beltsville, United States, (19)USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Raleigh, United States, (20)USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Temple, United States
 
Quantifying the Uncertainty in Terrestrial Carbon Storage Response to Historical Land Use Land Cover Changes (1917025)
Ram Singh, New York University, New York, NY, United States, Sonali Shukla McDermid, New York University, Environmental Studies, New York, NY, United States and Benjamin Cook, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States
 
Connections among topography, erosion, and soil carbon dynamics: insights from agricultural landscapes in the Midwestern United States (Invited) (1928933)
Isaac J Larsen1, Evan Thaler2, Jeffrey S Kwang3, Clara Hogan4, Eyal Marder5, Timothy Cook5, Rachel Hestrin6, Ashley Keiser6, Hannah Naughton6 and Matthew Winnick4, (1)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences, Amherst, MA, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, (3)USGS, Water Mission Area-Integrated Information Dissemination Division, St. Paul, United States, (4)University of Massachusetts, Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences, Amherst, United States, (5)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences, Amherst, United States, (6)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Stockbridge School of Agriculture, Amherst, United States
 
Productivity Dynamics of Agroecosystems Under Sustainable and Prevailing Management Practices Across the United States. (1930271)
Omodara Obisesan1, Jeffrey D Wood1, Jiquan Chen2, Timothy J Griffis3, Makki Khorchani4, Claire Phillips5 and Brook Wilke6, (1)University of Missouri, School of Natural Resources, Columbia, United States, (2)Michigan State University, Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, United States, (3)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, St. Paul, United States, (4)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, United States, (5)Washington State University, Crops and Soil Science, Pullman, United States, (6)Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States
 
Evaluation of the Impact of Permeable Inline Structures on Watershed Sediment Delivery (1949953)
Benjamin Abban1, Christina Thompson2, Katherine B Lininger2, Joel Sholtes2 and Yong Lai1, (1)Bureau of Reclamation Denver, Sedimentation and River Hydraulics Group, Denver, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States
 
Land-Use Change and Water Management in Transforming Landscapes: An IWRM–ABM Approach in Vista Hermosa, Colombia (1952615)
Antonio Preziosi-Ribero1, Maria Cristina Arenas2, Martin Otalora Low3, Natalia Carrillo3, Nicol Chicacausa4 and Mauricio Gonzalez2, (1)Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas, Bogota, Colombia, (2)Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Territory and Ecology, Bogota, Colombia, (3)Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Colombia, (4)Universidad Santo Tomas, Bogotá, Colombia
 
Predicting Fish Passage in a Fragmented Riverscape to Inform Freshwater Mussel Reintroduction (1955849)
Megan DiNicola1, Belize Arela Albin Lane2, Joshuah Perkin3 and Jacob Barrett3, (1)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Logan, UT, United States, (3)Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, United States
 
Global pastureland changes from 2001 to 2020 (1962222)
Shuo Chen1, Farzad Taheripour2, Uris Lantz C Baldos2, Qianlai Zhuang1, Ye Yuan1 and Lauren Benavidez2, (1)Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, United States, (2)Purdue University, Department of Agricultural Economics, West Lafayette, United States
 
Global Marginal Land Mapping and the Impact of Agricultural Management Practices on Marginal Land Soil Organic Carbon (1966565)
Xiangyu Liu1, Farzad Taheripour2, Qianlai Zhuang1 and Lauren Benavidez2, (1)Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, United States, (2)Purdue University, Department of Agricultural Economics, West Lafayette, United States
 
The drivers of the trend in vegetation productivity in western US rangelands (1968589)
Nivedita Dubey, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States, Hossein Noorazar, Washington State University, Mathematics and Statistics, Pullman, WA, United States, Matthew C Reeves, USDA Northern Plains Climate Hub, US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, United States and Kirti Rajagopalan, Washington State University, Biological Systems Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States
 
Assessing the potential of in-field and edge-of-field practices to reduce nitrate loading in tile-drained catchments (1970882)
Hai Huang1, Peiyu Cao2, Bo Yi1, David Immanuel Green1, Gabriel Johnson3, Thomas M Isenhart4, William G Crumpton1 and Chaoqun Lu1, (1)Iowa State University, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Ames, United States, (2)Cornell University, Department of Global Development, Ithaca, United States, (3)Iowa State University, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Ames, United States, (4)Iowa State University, Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Ames, United States
 
Effects of Large Woody Debris on Endangered Coho Salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) Spawning Locations (1972682)
Justin Bissell1, Trent W Biggs2, Hugo Loaiciga3, Amy Frazier4 and Hilary K McMillan2, (1)San Diego State University, Geography, San Diego, United States, (2)San Diego State University, Department of Geography, San Diego, CA, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, United States, (4)University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States
 
A New Modeling Framework for Estimating Ecosystem Respiration Under Different Land Uses (1974621)
Beomseok Chun, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, Binayak Mohanty, Texas A&M University, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, College Station, United States, Amor Ines, Pepsico, St. Paul, United States and Shaunagh Slack, PepsiCo R&D, Leicester, United Kingdom
 
Crop Water Stress is Independent of Surface Soil Moisture in the U.S. Corn Belt (1987846)
Brian K Hornbuckle1, Emma Safranek2, Theodore Hartman3, Guler Aslan Sungur1 and Andy VanLoocke4, (1)Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States, (2)Iowa State University, Ames, United States, (3)University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, DOE Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, Urbana, United States, (4)Iowa State University, Department of Agronomy, Ames, United States
 
Variability of Annual Carbon Budgets in a Cool-Season Grazed Pasture: Based on a Long-Term Eddy Covariance Observation in the Central Great Plains (1989176)
Xiangmin Sun1, Andy E. Suyker2, Galen Erickson3, Rebecca McDermott3, Makki Khorchani3, Yijie Xiong3, Marty Schmer4, Virginia Jin4 and Tala Awada5, (1)University of Nebraska Lincoln, School of Natural Resources, Lincoln, NE, United States, (2)University of Nebraska, School of Natural Resources, Lincoln, United States, (3)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, United States, (4)USDA-ARS, Agroecosystem Management Research Unit, Lincoln, United States, (5)University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, United States
 
Assessing the Impact of Agricultural Practices on Surface Energy Balance in Central Texas (1998083)
Debasish Mishra1, Rishabh Singh2, Beomseok Chun1, Nikhila Gollakota1, Salvatore Calabrese3 and Binayak Mohanty3, (1)Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Texas A&M University College Station, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, College Station, United States, (3)Texas A&M University, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, College Station, United States
 
Precision Conservation to Optimize Profitability, Climate Mitigation, and Landscape Multifunctionality in the U.S. Midwest Cropland (2003608)
Bruno Basso, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, Lydia Price, Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States, Neville Millar, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI, United States, Francesco Lodato, Michigan State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, United States, Ames Fowler, Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, United States and Nick Haddad, Kellogg Biological Station- Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, United States
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