Abstract submission deadline fast approaching! (March 31) Call for abstracts AGU 2010 The Meeting of the Americas
Apologies for cross-listing. Dear colleagues: Please consider submitting an abstract to the following session: “B19. Response of Soil Carbon Pools to Land-Use Change: Local to Global Scales” at the 2010 AGU Meeting of the Americas, 8-13th August, 2010, Foz do Iguaçu - PR, Brazil. Abstract submissions are now open at http://agu-ja10.abstractcentral.com/ and will close March 31st. General information on the Meeting and online registration can be found at: http://www.agu.org/meetings/ja10/ Please note that residents of many countries, including the U.S., require a Visa to enter Brazil: http://www.geophysics2010.org/useful_info.htm B19. Response of Soil Carbon Pools to Land-Use Change: Local to Global Scales Soils contain more C than aboveground biomass or the atmosphere, but we know a lot less about how land-use changes impact belowground C pools. Human activities influence soil C stocks through changes in the quantity, composition, and rate of organic matter inputs and losses from soils. The response of soil C varies widely and seems to be affected by soil type, climate, disturbance frequency and intensity, and sampling depth, rather than land use type alone. A better understanding of the factors controlling the turnover of soil C pool is necessary to better predict how future disturbances will affect soil C storage. We encourage submissions of research using a variety of analytical methods (isotopic, chemical, physical, biological, modeling, spectroscopic, spatial variability) to gain insight into soil organic matter dynamics at local to global scales. Thank you! Conveners: Carlos Eduardo P. Cerri, ESALQ/USP, Brazil [email protected] Plínio Barbosa de Camargo, CENA/USP, Brazil [email protected] Erika Marín-Spiotta, UW Madison, USA, [email protected] -- Erika Marín-Spiotta Assistant Professor Department of Geography University of Wisconsin-Madison 550 North Park Street Madison, WI 53706 (608) 262-1855 Office/Lab: Science Hall 223/230 *Note new office location [email protected] http://www.geography.wisc.edu/faculty/marin-spiotta/
