Primary Convener:
Ben Livneh, University of Colorado at Boulder

Convener:
Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi, University of California Berkeley
Gabrielle Boisrame, Desert Research Institute
Shraddhanand Shukla, University of California Santa Barbara

Chair:
Ben Livneh, University of Colorado at Boulder
Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi, Princeton University

Land-use and land-cover change (LULC) can range from shifts in vegetation communities and agricultural practices to faster transitions in land management. These changes can modulate ecohydrological processes over multiple timescales. In the shorter term, abrupt changes in irrigation, deforestation, and land management can affect flooding, drought events, and heatwaves via shifts in water cycle dynamics. Over longer timescales, gradual changes such as evolving cropping patterns, afforestation, and shifts in vegetation, can fundamentally alter water availability, carbon fluxes, and nutrient cycling over decades. This session invites presentations that leverage geospatial techniques—including remote sensing, machine learning, isotopic tracing, or modeling to capture key ecohydrological impacts over time. Topics of interest include (i) detection and attribution of LULC shifts, (ii) quantification of extreme event frequency and severity in response to vegetation and agricultural dynamics, (iii) long-term trends in groundwater and surface water interactions, and (iv) uncertainty analyses associated with dataset selection and modeling

Index Terms
0402 Agricultural systems
1632 Land cover change
1813 Eco-hydrology
1836 Hydrological cycles and budgets

Cross-Listed:
NH - Natural Hazards
SY - Science and Society
B - Biogeosciences
GC - Global Environmental Change

Suggested Itineraries:
National Climate Assessment
Open Science and Open Data

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering