Advances in Ecohydrology: Quantifying the Influence of Land-Use/Land-Cover Change on Hydrology and Climate
Advances in Ecohydrology: Quantifying the Influence of Land-Use/Land-Cover Change on Hydrology and Climate
Session ID#: 280914
Session Description:
Land-use and land-cover change (LULC), ranging from shifts in vegetation communities and agricultural practices to rapid land management transitions, plays a critical role in modulating ecohydrological processes across multiple timescales. In the shorter term, abrupt changes in irrigation, deforestation, and land management practices can affect flooding, droughts, and heatwaves by altering water cycle dynamics. Over longer timescales, gradual changes like evolving cropping patterns and afforestation can fundamentally impact water availability, carbon fluxes, and nutrient cycling over decades. This session invites presentations leveraging geospatial techniques—including remote sensing, machine learning, or Geospatial foundation models (GeoFMs), isotopic tracing, or modeling frameworks to capture the key ecohydrological impacts over time. Topics of interest include (i) detection and attribution of LULC shifts, (ii) quantification of extreme event frequency and severity in response to vegetation and agricultural dynamics, (iii) long-term trends in groundwater and surface water interactions, and (iv) uncertainty analyses in dataset selection and modeling.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- B - Biogeosciences
- GC - Global Environmental Change
- NH - Natural Hazards
- SY - Science and Society
Index Terms:
0402 Agricultural systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1836 Hydrological cycles and budgets [HYDROLOGY]
1843 Land/atmosphere interactions [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener: Ben Livneh, University of Colorado at Boulder, Civil Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States
Conveners: Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi, University of California Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA, United States, Gabrielle F.S. Boisrame, California Delta Stewardship Council, Sacramento, United States and Shrad Shukla, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States
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