- Title
- Assessing ecosystem response to multiple disturbances and climate change in South Africa using ground-and satellite-based measurements and model
- Creator
- Kutsch, Werner L, Falge, E M, Brümmer, Christian, Mukwashi, K, Schmullius, C, Hüttich, C, Odipo, V, Scholes, Robert J, Mudau, A, Midgley, Guy F, Stevens, N, Hickler, Thomas, Scheiter, Simon, Martens, C, Twine, Wayne, Iiyambo, T, Bradshaw, Karen L, Lück, W, Lenfers, Ulfia A, Thiel-Clemen, T
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/475183
- Identifier
- vital:77782
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9856380"
- Description
- Sub-Saharan Africa currently experiences rapidly growing human population, intrinsically tied to substantial changes in land use on shrubland, savanna and mixed woodland ecosystems due to over-exploitation. Significant conversions driving degradation, affecting fire frequency and water availability, and fueling climate change are expected to increase in the immediate future. However, measured data of greenhouse gas emissions as affected by land use change are scarce to entirely lacking from this region. The project 'Adaptive Resilience of Southern African Ecosystems' (ARS AfricaE) conducts research and develops scenarios of ecosystem development under climate change, for management support in conservation or for planning rural area development. This will be achieved by (1) creation of a network of research clusters (paired sites with natural and altered vegetation) along an aridity gradient in South Africa for ground-based micrometeorological in-situ measurements of energy and matter fluxes, (2) linking biogeochemical functions with ecosystem structure, and eco-physiological properties, (3) description of ecosystem disturbance (and recovery) in terms of ecosystem function such as carbon balance components and water use efficiency, (4) set-up of individual-based models to predict ecosystem dynamics under (post) disturbance managements, (5) combination with long-term landscape dynamic information derived from remote sensing and aerial photography, and (6) development of sustainable management strategies for disturbed ecosystems and land use change. Emphasis is given on validation (by a suite of field measurements) of estimates obtained from eddy covariance, model approaches and satellite derivations.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (1 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- American Geophysical Union
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Fall Meeting Abstracts, Kutsch, W.L., Falge, E.M., Brümmer, C., Mukwashi, K., Schmullius, C., Hüttich, C., Odipo, V., Scholes, R.J., Mudau, A., Midgley, G. and Stevens, N., 2015, December. Assessing ecosystem response to multiple disturbances and climate change in South Africa using ground-and satellite-based measurements and model. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2015, pp. B11A-0411), Fall Meeting Abstracts volume 2015 p. 11A 2015 1573-8248
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- Rights
- Open Access
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