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Session Proposal: Root-Soil-Water Nexus: Integrating Perspectives Across Scales and Disciplines (AGU25)

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Root-Soil-Water Nexus: Integrating Perspectives Across Scales and Disciplines

Session ID#: 252233

Session Description:
The complex interplay between soil structure, root systems, and hydrological processes represents a critical frontier for understanding ecosystem function and resilience. This session brings together hydrologists, soil physicists, plant physiologists, and ecologists to explore interactions governing water movement, nutrient transport, and carbon dynamics in the root zone. We welcome contributions from diverse topics including, but not limited to, soil aggregation effects on root water uptake, mycorrhizal associations modifying hydraulic properties, preferential flow pathways influencing water availability, and plant-soil-microbe feedbacks altering soil structure. Research areas span from root architecture adaptation to heterogeneous soil moisture conditions to carbon sequestration implications. Of particular interest are studies employing process-based modeling, model-data integration approaches, experimental-simulation coupling, and both mechanistic and data-driven methods that bridge disciplinary boundaries across various management practices and environmental contexts.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeosciences
Index Terms:

0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1852 Plant uptake [HYDROLOGY]
1866 Soil moisture [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener:  Sara Cerasoli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Sara Bonetti, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH Valais Wallis, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), Sion, Switzerland, Salvatore Calabrese, Texas A&M University, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, College Station, United States and Bryn E. Morgan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Shashank Kumar Anand, Texas A&M University, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, College Station, United States
 
Assessing agroecosystem resilience with a novel approach for vegetation-accessible water-storage capacity. (1883433)
Nunzio Romano, The University of Naples Federico II, Department of Agricultural Sciences, AFBE Division, Naples, Italy, Caterina Mazzitelli, The University of Naples Federico II, Department of Agricultural Sciences, AFBE Division, Portici, Italy and Paolo Nasta, University of Naples Federico II, Department of Agricultural Sciences - Division of Agricultural, Forest and Biosystems Engineering, Portici, Italy
 
What Drives Soil Structural Development and Water Flow in Soils with Shallow Lithic Contacts? (1899185)
Vaishnavi Varikuti, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States, Maria Bronnikova, Texas Tech University, Department of Plant and Soil Science, Lubbock, United States, Daniel Hirmas, Texas Tech University, Department of Plant and Soil Science, Lubbock, TX, United States, Hoori Ajami, University of California, Riverside, Department of Environmental Sciences, Riverside, United States, Julio Pachon, University of California Riverside, Riverside, United States, Jesse B Nippert, Kansas State University, Biology, Manhattan, United States, Pamela L. Sullivan, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States, Li Li, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, United States, Sharon A Billings, University of Kansas, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Kansas Biological Survey and Center for Ecological Research, Lawrence, KS, United States and Alejandro N Flores, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States
 
Exploring the Potential of Coupling Data-Driven Root-Distribution Estimation with Process-Based Hydrological Modeling for Improved Water-Balance Simulations (1928999)
Hoori Ajami, University of California Riverside, Environmental Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States, Bing Li, University of California Riverside, Riverside, United States, Daniel Hirmas, Texas Tech University, Department of Plant and Soil Science, Lubbock, United States, Sharon A Billings, University of Kansas, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Kansas Biological Survey and Center for Ecological Research, Lawrence, KS, United States, Jesse B Nippert, Kansas State University, Biology, Manhattan, United States, Kamini Singha, Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, Matthew Amato, University of California Riverside, Department of Environmental Sciences, Riverside, United States, Alejandro N Flores, Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, Li Li, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, United States and Pamela L Sullivan, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States
 
Engineering the Underworld: Reimagining Roots as Drivers of Soil System Function (Invited) (1929305)
Xander Takver1, Mr. Marc Dumont2, Rahila Yilangai3, Amir H. Ahkami4, Holly R Barnard5, Sharon A Billings6, William Chrisler7, Rosalie Kae Chu8, Chaevien Clendinen8, James Fulcher8, Emily Bonnell Graham9, Nathalie Munoz8, Kamini Singha10 and Pamela L Sullivan11, (1)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Colorado School of Mines, Hydrologic Science and Engineering Program, Golden, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Geography, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, Boulder, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (5)University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Geography, Boulder, United States, (6)University of Kansas, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Kansas Biological Survey and Center for Ecological Research, Lawrence, KS, United States, (7)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (8)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, United States, (9)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (10)Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, (11)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States
 
Root Water Uptake Strategies of Contrasting Wheat Genotypes Revealed by Electrical Resistivity Tomography (1947415)
Nimrod Schwartz and Emmanuel Akaerue, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Soil and Water Sciences, Jerusalem, Israel
 
Hydrologic Sustainability of a Dryland Tree-Grass Ecosystem in the Mediterranean Region Under Climate Change: the Role of the Rock Moisture (1955693)
Nicola Montaldo, Serena Sirigu and Roberto Corona, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
 
Gauging Salinity’s Impact on Root Water Uptake and Testing for Hydraulic Redistribution in Pecan (Carya illinoinensis) (1975389)
Duncan Turley, Portland State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland, OR, United States and Samantha R Hartzell, Portland State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland, United States
 
Root System Architecture and Resource Allocation Strategies Under Heterogeneous Soil Moisture: Divergent Adaptations of Co-Dominant Temperate Trees (Invited) (1987524)
Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila1, Junior Burks2, Thomas Muratore1, Lara Roelofs3 and S. Grady Welsh1, (1)Dartmouth College, Environmental Studies, Hanover, United States, (2)Dartmouth College, Ecology, Evolution, Environment and Society Program, Hanover, United States, (3)Dartmouth College, Biology, Hanover, United States
 
Sugarcane Water Source Use and the Importance of Deep Water in Both Wet and Drought Years in a Water-Abundant Agroecosystem (1989751)
Patrick Ellsworth, USDA ARS Sugarcane Research Unit, Houma, United States and Paul White, USDA ARS, Houma, LA, United States
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