B061
Toward an understanding of methane fluxes on response to environmental change.
Toward an understanding of methane fluxes on response to environmental change.
Session ID#: 161438
Session Description:
We need to improve our mechanistic understanding of methane (CH4) fluxes across ecosystem types in response to changes in environmental conditions (e.g., climate, land use / land cover). Remote sensing, land surface models, and observations can provide valuable information about the impacts of the changing climate and anthropogenic drivers on CH4 fluxes. As such, this session solicits abstracts that use models, observations, or a combination thereof, to provide new insights on CH4 dynamics in terrestrial, wetland, and freshwater aquatic ecosystems. Ecosystem response studies, as well as studies that quantify CH4 flux uncertainty are encouraged. We also invite studies that address: (1) developing improvements to current experimental designs aimed at understanding CH4 soil-vegetation interactions; (2) methods for reconciling different spatial and temporal scales between observations and model processes; (3) studies investigating the spatial and temporal variability in the different CH4 pathways; and 4) studies examining the role of observational errors and model uncertainties on CH4 fluxes.
Index Terms:
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0497 Wetlands [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
Primary Convener: Bassil El Masri, Murray State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Murray, KY, United States
Conveners: Gary E. Stinchcomb, Murray State University, Watershed Studies Institute and Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Murray, United States, Jessica B Moon, Murray State University, Biology and Watershed Studies Institute, Murray, KY, United States and Benjamin Runkle, University of Arkansas, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Fayetteville, AR, United States
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