PARENT SESSIONSymposium 18: Linking local, regional and global ecological changes across densely populated landscapes
Organized by: EC Ellis, PH Verburg, and RA Houghton
Thursday, August 11, 8:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Meeting Room 517 C, Level 5, Palais des congrès de Montréal
8:00 AM: , INTRODUCTION: E. ELLIS.
8:05 AM: Smil, Vaclav*,1, 1 University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, The impact of local processes on global biogeochemical cycles.
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8:35 AM: Houghton, Richard*,1, 1 Woods Hole Research Center, Woods Hole, MA, USA, The impacts of local and regional changes in land use on the global carbon cycle.
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9:05 AM: Foley, Jonathan*,1, 1 Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), Madison, WI, USA, Land use practices have negative, global-scale effects on ecosystem services and human welfare.
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9:35 AM: , BREAK.
9:50 AM: Verburg, Peter*,1, Veldkamp, Tom1, 1 Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University., Wageningen, The Netherlands, Scenario analysis of European scale changes in land use and its impacts on landscape and biodiversity.
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10:15 AM: van de Steeg, Jeannette*,1, Verburg, Peter2, Baltenweck, Isabelle1, Makokha, Stella1, Staal, Steve1, 1 International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Nairobi, Kenya2 Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Farming system dynamics as result of demographic change in the densely populated highlands of Kenya.
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10:40 AM: Ellis, Erle1, 1 University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, Linking local measurements with regional data to measure long-term biogeochemical changes across China's densely populated agricultural landscapes.
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11:05 AM: , SUMMARY, DISCUSSION, AND SYNTHESIS: E. ELLIS, P. H. VERBURG, AND R. HOUGHTON.