Hi All, The newly launched journal Ecosystem Health and Sustainability is devoting to a special issue: Emerging Multiple-Scale Modeling for Ecosystem Services in a Changing World.
All potential contributors from the land surface modeling community are invited to submit manuscript for inclusion. The detailed description of the special issue is included at http://esa.org/ehs/other-materials/call-for-papers/. The contributors are encouraged to send manuscripts or abstracts to guests editors to be considered as invitation-only submission. Guest Editors Xiaofeng Xu ([email protected]), San Diego State University Oleksandra (Sasha) Hararuk ([email protected]), Canadian Forest Service Forrest M. Hoffman ([email protected]), Oak Ridge National Laboratory Peter E. Thornton ([email protected]), Oak Ridge National Laboratory Announcement Earth is experiencing unprecedented environmental changes which have caused substantial alteration of functioning in natural ecosystems and their feedbacks to the climate system. Therefore, a good understanding of ecosystem processes, such as energy, water, and nutrient cycling, is required to tackle the global change problems. Multiple-scale modeling approach is a powerful tool for examining ecosystem health in the context of multiple-factor global environmental change. In line with the recent advances of ecological knowledge and modeling needs, some modeling aspects have emerged as frontiers in ecosystem modeling community. For example, representing plant functional traits to better simulate vegetation competition, attributing global change impacts to multiple environmental factors, modeling land-coastal interactions, novel modeling framework to improve the Earth system models, and incorporating soil microbial processes into soil organic matter decomposition model to better simulate the carbon dynamics, etc. This special issue encourages submissions with emerging multiple-scale modeling for ecosystem services in a changing world. Modeling studies ranging from plot, catchment, regional, to global scales to address the cutting-edge global change problems are welcome. We anticipate to bring together various studies of natural ecosystems from multiple perspectives to advance ecosystem modeling in order to address unprecedented environmental problems. This special issue encourages manuscript focusing on, but not limited to, the following topics. 1) Emerging ecosystem modeling framework across various scales 2) Ecological modeling approach for upscaling knowledge gained through experiments/observations 3) Multiple-factor modeling to address global change problems 4) Novel approach for modeling terrestrial, aquatic, or marine ecosystems, or land-ocean interactions 5) Modeling biogeochemical cycling with an explicit representation of implicit time-stepping 6) Ecosystem modeling for some climate-sensitive ecosystem processes such as Arctic permafrost thaw, tropical warming, deep soil warming etc. Timeline: Announcement: October 9th, 2015 Submission Deadline: June 30th, 2016 Publication Deadline: December 31, 2016 -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Xiaofeng Xu Assistant Professor of Ecology Department of Biological Sciences University of Texas at El Paso San Diego State University (Start Jan 2016) [email protected] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
