[Aqualist] INQUA 2019 session- EcoRe3: Resilience, stability and abrupt change in long-term ecological records

[Michael Fletcher]

Hi All,

We have a session some of you may be interested in at INQUA Dublin 2019 (http://www.inqua2019.org/call-for-abstracts/)

EcoRe3: Resilience, stability and abrupt change in long-term ecological records

Identifying the properties that underpin ecosystem resilience and/or stability in response to climate change and other disturbances is a global research priority, but the methods used to quantify ecological resilience can vary depending on the study system and context. Although there are a number of recent examples that have mapped components of ecological resilience at global scales, these ecological 'snapshots' are based on measurements documenting ecological changes from timescales of years to decades. Whether the patterns identified by such studies reflect fundamental properties of the systems, or are a result of historical disturbance legacies remains unknown. Thus, to fully understand the drivers and underlying dynamics resulting in ecological resilience requires a historical perspective that documents system dynamics covering timescales of centuries to millennia.
This session is dedicated to papers focussed on ecological resilience from long-term ecological records. We invite contributions which (i) introduce new techniques to quantify and compare components of resilience in long term ecological datasets; (ii) identify patterns (in time/ space) of drivers (biotic, abiotic) of stability and resilience; and (iii) test key assumptions and predictions of resilience theory using long-term methods. We encourage papers from across a range of biome types; from tropical to arctic, terrestrial to freshwater ecosystems, using timescales from decades, centuries, and millennia, including multi-proxy studies from individual sites to larger scale syntheses. Papers which use a combination of model data-assimilation techniques and/or multi-proxy studies will be encouraged.

More information about EcoRe3 can be found here:
http://pastglobalchanges.org/ini/wg/ecore3/intro
http://pastglobalchanges.org/calendar/upcoming/127-pages/1778-inqua-congress-19

Cheers,
Michael.