Dear colleagues, We welcome contributed abstracts to our session at this year’s Fall AGU Meeting in San Francisco. The deadline for abstract submission is Wednesday, 3 August 2016.
*H002: ‘Advances in ecohydrology of water-stressed environments’*, *Session ID*#: *12974,* Session Description: Water-stressed environments include naturally occurring drylands and any ecosystem experiencing droughts. Drylands cover more than 40% of the terrestrial land surface and home to at least 2 billion people. The provisioning of ecosystem services in drylands is governed by water availability. Thus water is fundamental to sustain ecosystem functions in water-stressed environments, where a tight coupling exists between water availability, ecosystem productivity, surface energy balance, and biogeochemical cycles. Both physical (e.g., CO2, temperature) and anthropogenic factors (e.g. land use, energy development) are increasingly affecting the dryland water dynamics. We welcome submissions focusing on the ecohydrological processes/feedbacks in water-stressed environments and their implications on a broad range of issues including ecosystem change, land use change, water resources, desertification, and food-energy-water nexus. *Invited speakers:* *Amilcare Porporato, Duke University* *Enrique Vivoni, Arizona State University* *Conveners*: 1) Abinash Bhattachan, North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC 2) Lixin Wang, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 3) Sujith Ravi, Temple University, Philadelphia PA 4) Kailiang Yu, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA We hope that you will be able to participate in this session. Thank you! Lixin ********************************** Lixin Wang Assistant Professor Editor: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Associate Editor: Journal of Arid Environments Department of Earth Sciences Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) 723 W Michigan St, SL 118M Indianapolis IN 46202 Office Tel: 317-274-7764 Fax: 317-274-7966 http://earthsciences.iupui.edu/~lxwang **********************************
