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Symposium 18: Linking local, regional, and global
ecological changes across densely populated landscapes
Endorsed by the ESA Mid-Atlantic Chapter
Thursday, August 11, 8 AM - 11:30 AM, Meeting Room
517c, Level 5, Palais des congrès de Montréal
Organizers: Erle
Ellis (ece@umbc.edu), Peter Verburg, Richard Houghton
Description: Densely
populated rural, suburban, and urban landscapes now cover nearly 15% of
earth’s land surface and their extent is increasing rapidly. Long-term
ecological changes in these anthropogenic landscapes have global impacts on
biogeochemical processes, climate, and biodiversity that are coupled with
regional and local water and air pollution, deforestation, and habitat loss.
This symposium will characterize the global extent and ecological importance of
anthropogenic landscapes and demonstrate a variety of multi-scale approaches
toward the measurement and forecasting of long-term ecological changes across
these landscapes around the world, including East Asia, Eastern Africa, Europe,
and North America. The session will focus special attention on measuring the
global and regional impacts of changes in biogeochemical processes driven by
household level decisions, including the use of fertilizers, biomass fuels, land
clearing, tillage, grazing, construction, tree-planting, and land abandonment.
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