Primary Convener:
Thanos Papanicolaou, USDA-ARS, National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment

Convener:
Hong-Yi Li, University of Houston
Renato P. M. Frasson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Timothy Filley, The University of Oklahoma

Chair:
Hong-Yi Li, University of Houston
Renato P. M. Frasson, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Timothy Filley, The University of Oklahoma

It has been a longstanding yet critical need to understand and predict ecosystem dynamics in natural and managed landscapes due to the complex ecological, hydrological, and biogeochemical processes and their feedback across multiple spatiotemporal scales. Such need persists under the accelerating environmental and anthropogenic changes across scales. This session's objective is to foster collaboration on ecosystem dynamics that links key biotic and abiotic functions for sustainable resource use efficiency. We welcome studies that leverage a broad range of model- and data-driven approaches to study ecosystem dynamics across various natural and managed landscapes, including but not limited to: 1) Novel ecosystem modeling frameworks (e.g., Bayesian networks, AI, machine learning); 2) Landscape-oriented approaches that consider the connectivity concept as a management tool; 3) Empirical studies based on remote sensing, and field observations; 4) Cross-scale interactions (local to global) and human-natural system couplings ; 5) Applications for ecosystem resilience, carbon cycling, and biodiversity.

Index Terms
0402 Agricultural systems
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics
1402 - Critical Zone
1847 Modeling

Suggested Itineraries:
Machine Learning and AI

Cross-Listed:
B - Biogeosciences
EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering