We wish to encourage abstract submissions to Special Session SS12 "*Reductionist approaches to large-scale carbon cycling - opportunities and limitations"* at the upcoming ASLO 2016 Summer Meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
*Session description:* The transport and transformation of organic matter en route through inland waters from soil to sea is a substantial global ecosystem process and it receives extensive attention in aquatic science. To understand the regulation and magnitude of processes such as bacterial and photochemical mineralization, outgassing to the atmosphere, and retention in sediments, a suite of approaches is needed, ranging from mechanistic laboratory studies to large scale field surveys and modeling. In recent ASLO meetings a number of sessions have been devoted to the large-scale patterns. This session will focus on experimental studies needed to address ecosystem-scale processes and their regulation, and how they can support upscaling and prediction. Factors of interest include (but are not limited to) effects on carbon transformations of temperature, nutrients, organic carbon composition, food web interactions, light, and physical process that regulate the exchange across the air-water and sediment-water interface. We encourage a broad range of presentations that focus on processes behind the emergent global inland water carbon cycle; and on the possibilities and limitations of smaller-scale experimental studies to address the large-scale carbon cycle. We look forward to seeing you at the meeting !! Lars Tranvik, Cristian Gudasz, Dolly Kothawala, Núria Catalán and Birgit Koehler, co-conveners *[email protected] <http://%e2%80%[email protected]>* *Núria CatalánPost-doctoral fellow* *Limnology/Dept of Ecology and GeneticsEvolutionary Biology CentreUppsala UniversityNorbyvägen 18 DSE-752 36 UppsalaSweden*
