Dear All,
We are looking for potential speakers for the symposium "Systems and Tools
for Integrated Ecosystem Services Modeling and Decision Support" at the
8th International Association of Landscape Ecology World Congress (taking
place from August 18-23, 2011, Beijing, China). Please let me know as
soon as possible if you or your colleagues are interested.
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Symposium Abstract:
Ecosystems provide a wide range of goods and services to the society.
Maintaining sustainable ecosystem services to ensure provisioning of
resources for future generations has become an explicitly stated goal for
many land management entities and agencies and, in some cases, has been
legislatively mandated. Because of the complexity and connectedness in
ecosystem functions and services, any changes in land use, disturbances,
and climate would invoke simultaneous changes in myriad ecosystem services
at a range of spatial and temporal scales. However, past practices have
been on quantifying one or a few ecosystem services at a time, potentially
producing unintended consequences since a management scenario that is
optimal for one service can be disastrous for other services. Hence,
there is a strong need to develop modeling systems and tools to
simultaneously quantify the impacts of land use and climate change on
diverse ecosystem services for decision makers. In this symposium, we
include presentations on current practices for developing and applying
this kind of modeling systems and tools. Talks will cover theoretical
considerations of integration, technical aspects of modeling development
and integration, trade-off or optimization schemes, and applications to
scientific research and decision support.
Thank you very much for your attention,
Leo
Shuguang (Leo) Liu, PhD
Research Ecologist, and Team Lead on
Climate Change, Carbon Cycle, and Ecosystem Services Modeling
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science
(EROS) Center
47914 252nd Street
Sioux Falls, SD 57198
Phone: 605-594-6168
Fax: 605-594-6529
Email: [email protected]
