Symposium--Extreme Events: Consequences for Biogeochemical Cycling and Feedbacks to the Climate System: I

Oral Session

S07 Forest, Range & Wildland Soils

Human-induced climate change has the potential to alter the prevalence and severity of extreme weather events such as heat waves, cold waves, floods and droughts. These types of events can have an equal - or greater - impact on natural and managed ecosystems than the more gradual change in means that are typically associated with climate change. This symposium will explore the frontiers of our understanding of extreme events and their consequences for above and belowground C and nutrient cycling, as well as potential feedback mechanisms from the biosphere to the climate system from theoretical, observational, experimental, and modeling perspectives.

Cosponsor(s):

S03 Soil Biology & Biochemistry
Tuesday, October 23, 2012: 7:50 AM-12:00 PM
Duke Energy Convention Center, Junior Ballroom A, Level 3
Organizers:
Lindsey Rustad and Peter Groffman
Presiders:
Lindsey Rustad and Peter Groffman
7:50 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:30 AM
Observations of Ecosystem Response and Recovery to Extreme Events: Evidence From Recent Experimental and Model-Based Studies in Europe.
Michael Bahn, University of Innsbruck; Markus Reichstein, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
9:30 AM
Break
11:15 AM
Panel Discussion: Extreme Events: Consequences for Biogeochemical Cycling and Feedbacks to the Climate System.
Lindsey Rustad, USDA-ARS Forest Service; Peter Groffman, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
11:45 AM
Discussion
11:55 AM
Concluding Remarks
12:00 PM
Adjourn