IGN 17
Scaling in Global Change Studies: Representation in Multiple Dimensions

Thursday, August 8, 2013: 1:30 PM-3:30 PM
101E, Minneapolis Convention Center
Organizer:
Stan D. Wullschleger, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Co-organizer:
Xiaofeng Xu, Auburn University, AL
Moderator:
Santonu Goswami, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Scaling is a fundamental issue in ecology; it requires understanding and representing ecological properties and processes at different scales and integrating this information across space, time and organizational levels. Over the past decades, scaling has become a critical research endeavor when evaluating a variety of threats to ecological systems across the planet. Global change involves a complex set of processes and mechanisms occurring at different spatial, temporal, biological and ecological scales. Integrating the information obtained at these different scales to achieve comprehensive understanding of the impacts of global change on systems is a key if we are to develop mitigation and adaptation strategies for sustainable development. Many studies have adopted scaling approaches, either up-scaling or down-scaling, to better monitor and understand mechanisms of global change across multiple scales. We propose to host a dynamic and engaging communication of ideas among researchers working at different spatial and temporal scales and on different global change topics. The session will be aimed at advancing a systems understanding of scaling, in multiple dimensions, and will be a timely effort to advance the endeavor of mitigating the adapting to global environmental change.
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Mingliang Liu, Washington State University; Jennifer C. Adam, Washington State University; Christina L. Tague, University of Calfornia, Santa Barbara
 The balance of greenhouse gases in the terrestrial biosphere: can we predict large-scale and long-term patterns from short-term plot level observations?
Hanqin Tian, Auburn University; Chaoqun Lu, Auburn University; Wei Ren, Auburn University; Bo Tao, Auburn University; Jia Yang, Auburn University; Kamaljit Banger, Auburn University; Shufen Pan, Auburn University; Bowen Zhang, Auburn University; Qichun Yang, Auburn University; Guangsheng Chen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Xiaofeng Xu, Auburn University, AL
 Put down that ANOVA! Using regression-based designs to deal with spatial heterogeneity
Caitlin E. Hicks Pries, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Margaret S. Torn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
 People, pavement and trees: Challenges in urban forests
Heather R. McCarthy, University of Oklahoma
 Arctic landscapes in a warming climate – Witnessing the big thaw
Stan D. Wullschleger, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
 ‘From near to far, from here to there, funny things are everywhere’
Colleen M. Iversen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Anthony P. Walker, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Joanne Childs, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Richard J. Norby, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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