B029
Integrating and Advancing Understanding of Coastal Ecosystem Structure, Function, and Dynamics
Integrating and Advancing Understanding of Coastal Ecosystem Structure, Function, and Dynamics
Session ID#: 159151
Session Description:
Coastal environments, which span the terrestrial-aquatic continuum, represent unique habitats facilitating complex interactions of climate, hydrology, species and human management. These environments provide countless ecosystem services including significant carbon storage and shoreline protection from erosion and flooding. The structure, function, and critical ecosystem services of coastal environments are extremely sensitive to changing environmental conditions resulting from climate-induced disturbances (e.g. storms, sea-level rise, eutrophication, invasive species, etc). This session aims to facilitate an interdisciplinary discussion of coastal ecosystem function across a variety of coastal environments, from the shallow subtidal to coastal forests. We encourage submissions that focus on data-model integration, syntheses, novel data analytic techniques, and integration of hydrological, ecological, and/or biogeochemical processes. We aim to highlight research that integrates spatial and/or temporal scales, analyzes high-resolution datasets, derives drivers of coastal ecosystem function, enhances community engagement, and/or engages citizen science efforts.
Index Terms:
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4217 Coastal processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]
Primary Convener: Stephanie C Pennington, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners: Allison Myers-Pigg, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Sequim, United States; University of Toledo, Toledo, United States and Teri O'Meara, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
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