Session: CrossDiv Symposium--Soils of Fire-affected Landscapes: Linking Belowground Ecology & Watershed Processes

Division: SSSA Cross-Divisional Symposium

Title: CrossDiv Symposium--Soils of Fire-affected Landscapes: Linking Belowground Ecology & Watershed Processes

Lead Community Sponsor:
Cosponsor: SSSA Division: Forest, Range and Wildland Soils, SSSA Division: Soil Biology and Biochemistry, SSSA Division: Soils and Environmental Quality, SSSA Division: Urban and Anthropogenic Soils
Community Cosponsor:
Format: Oral Symposium
Keywords: Fire

Session Description: As fire regimes shift as a consequence of climate change and management practices, understanding the mechanisms that govern the response and recovery of soils to fire is increasingly relevant. Such mechanisms include ecological, biogeochemical, physical and watershed processes that operate across broad spatial and temporal scales. Soil biological communities play a central role in understanding these mechanisms and consequences for ecosystem functioning. Integrating soil microbial and faunal communities with the physical, chemical, and biological processes they mediate will lead us to a better understanding of how the soil environment will change under novel fire regimes.