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GM5.1 | Life and landscapes: Understanding and applying the interactions between organisms and their environments across scales
EDI
Life and landscapes: Understanding and applying the interactions between organisms and their environments across scales
Convener: Wietse van de Lageweg | Co-conveners: Paulina GrigusovaECSECS, Annegret LarsenECSECS, Jana Eichel
Biogeomorphology addresses the two-way interaction between abiotic and biotic elements that shape landscapes at various spatio-temporal scales. Yet, developing theory, methods and quantifying processes across the abiotic-biotic interface remains challenging. This is partly due to the interdisciplinarity of biogeomorphology, integrating concepts from ecology, (evolutionary) biology, hydraulics, engineering, geomorphology, geology and quaternary science (amongst other disciplines). Although more and more biogeomorphic feedbacks are being investigated, understood, and applied in practice, many biogeomorphic feedbacks remain insufficiently understood and quantified. However, a better understanding and quantification of abiotic-biotic interactions across scales is urgently needed for sustainable management of natural environments to mitigate and adapt to climate change, in response to natural hazards, and to best design Nature-based solutions (NbS) to increase system resilience. NbS are increasingly becoming the standard for climate adaptation measures aiming to enhance sedimentation, gain surface elevation and mitigate natural hazards. They result in carbon sequestration and increase water quality and biodiversity. It is critical that presently often localized NbS are scaled-up in size and number, without losing their grounding in local conditions and populations.

This session provides a platform for all aspects of biogeomorphology, including fundamental science and applied studies. Topics may include but are not limited to biogeomorphic processes, rates and feedbacks, organism-habitat interaction, biota as ecosystem engineers, biogeomorphology as a driver of nutrient and pollutant transport, and biogeomorphology as a tool to sustainably manage natural systems and hazards. Innovative methods such as artificial intelligence, field and laboratory tests, remote sensing and numerical modelling or a combination thereof providing new perspectives on the life and landscapes interactions are warmly welcomed. We encourage everyone interested in biogeomorphology to contribute to the session to further strengthen community and stimulate discussion and collaboration across scales.