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ITS5.3/GM2 | Biogeomorphology Across Scales: From Fundamental Processes to Environmental Management
Biogeomorphology Across Scales: From Fundamental Processes to Environmental Management
Convener: Stefan Haselberger | Co-conveners: Magdalena Lauermann, Florian Betz, Annegret Larsen, Jana Eichel
Biogeomorphology provides an integrative perspective to study two-way interactions between organisms and landforms, linking ecological processes with erosion, transport, and deposition processes. This integrative lens shows how biotic–abiotic feedbacks shape Earth surface dynamics and landscape patterns across multiple spatial and temporal scales - from single plants to catchments and from events to millennia. Recent advances in biogeomorphic understanding have expanded applications across alpine, fluvial, coastal, and aeolian systems, for example in nature-based solutions. Key concepts such as biogeomorphic succession provide shared ground for cross-system comparison.

Despite a growing number of studies, biogeomorphology is still an emerging field with the conceptual and empirical foundation being under active development. In addition, transferring scientific knowledge of biogeomorphic feedbacks into management-relevant knowledge remains an ongoing challenge. With this session, we aim to advance the conceptual foundation of biogeomorphology and foster its transfer into practice. Contributions may range from alpine and polar environments over riverine landscapes to lowland and coastal systems, highlighting the relevance of biogeomorphology for improving process understanding and informing sustainable management strategies.

We invite contributions spanning fundamental process research, experimental, field-based and remote sensing studies, as well as applied approaches to environmental management and natural hazard mitigation. We particularly encourage work that uses biogeomorphology as a lens to address pressing geoscientific challenges, including ecosystem–landform feedbacks, human impacts on biogeomorphic systems, and the integration of multi-scale observations and models. Contributions from early career scientists are particularly welcome.