H095
Soil Health as Overarching Sustainability Principle in Managed Landscapes
Soil Health as Overarching Sustainability Principle in Managed Landscapes
Session ID#: 161458
Session Description:
Soil provides vital ecosystem linkages that sustain plants, animals, and human needs. Improvement in soil health has been attributed to enhanced and sustainable ecosystem services that include reduced erosion, increased soil moisture retention, increased land productivity, and landscape resiliency to severe weather. In this session, we seek contributions from research and design solutions that target soil health improvements as a way to improve ecosystem resiliency to severe weather and pollution mitigation. Specifically, we seek submissions targeting nonpoint source pollution reduction strategies via soil health improvement. Assessing spatial and temporal trends in weather, water quality, and soil health can provide valuable insights into the transport of pollutants at landscape scale. We welcome studies conducted at various spatial scales and studies which assess past and future trends, and, subsequently, their impact on policies related to climate change mitigation and water quality improvement.
Index Terms:
1829 Groundwater hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1831 Groundwater quality [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1871 Surface water quality [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener: Sidath Mendis, University of Missouri, Columbia, United States
Conveners: Noel R Aloysius, University of Missouri, Biomedical, Biological, and Chemical Engineering, Columbia, United States and Behirah Hartranft, University of Missouri, Biomedical, Biological, and Chemical Engineering, Columbia, MO, United States
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