Dear Colleagues, Please consider submitting an abstract to AGU Session #13782: Livestock, Land Use, and the Environment.
Session Description: Raising livestock requires nearly a quarter of the terrestrial land surface for pasture and a substantial fraction of all grain produced. While there are important provisioning and cultural services associated with livestock production, there are serious environmental impacts, including deforestation, land degradation, greenhouse gas emissions, perturbed nutrient cycles, and water quality issues. This session focuses on new field, modeling, and/or remote sensing approaches for monitoring and assessing livestock systems in an era of rapid environmental change. This session is intended to cover: i) monitoring and characterization of livestock systems ii) environmental impacts of livestock systems including pasture degradation, iii) characteristics of mixed crop/livestock systems iv) scenario modeling and landscape optimization v) methods for achieving improved outcomes. Conveners: James S Gerber, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States Marcos Heil Costa, UFV Federal University of Vicosa, Vicosa, Brazil Mario Herrero, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), St. Lucia, QLD, Australia William Kolby Smith, Univeristy of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States Please consider submitting a contributed abstract to this session using the AGU Fall Meeting website at http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/abstract-submissions/. The deadline for abstract submissions is August 3, 2016. Kind regards, Bill Smith — William Kolby Smith Assistant Professor (Starting Fall 2016), School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Email: [email protected] Skype: wkolby | Twitter: @wkolby wkolby.org
