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| H09: | Timescales and Feedbacks in Ecogeomorphology |
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Hydrology
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Biogeosciences Nonlinear Geophysics |
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Brandon McElroy Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas Austin, TX, USA bmcelroy@geo.utexas.edu John Wainwright University of Sheffield Department of Geography, Winter Street Sheffield, GBR +44 144 222 7951 J.Wainwright@sheffield.ac.uk Anne Lightbody University of Minnesota St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, 2 Third Avenue SE Minneapolis, MN, USA 612-624-4679 annel@umn.edu Anthony Parsons University of Sheffield Department of Geography, Winter Street Sheffield, GBR a.j.parsons@sheffield.ac.uk |
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| Description: | Recent work in the hydrologic sciences has confirmed that understanding landscapes requires reaching across traditional disciplinary boundaries. For example, it is known that riparian vegetation significantly impacts flow, sedimentation, erosion, and channel morphology in varied and complex ways. However, an integrated approach combining ecological and geomorphological principles has not yet been adopted. For instance, while the timescales of the dominant or competing processes have often been used to characterize first-order system behaviour, dimensional analysis rather than ecological understanding has guided the choice of timescales. Work is still needed to clarify the role of timescales of ecological and geomorphological processes in controlling system behaviour. This session aims to bring together a wide range of researchers at the boundaries of ecology and geomorphology to explore different geomorphic process domains and thus as wide a range timescales of ecological-landscape interactions as possible. We hope this session will illuminate a variety of approaches to catalyze the development of generalized frameworks for their use in bio- and ecogeomorphic systems. Contributions of a more conceptual or theoretical nature are also encouraged. |
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