international workshop on: eco-hydrology of semiarid
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International Workshop on:ECO-HYDROLOGY OF SEMIARID ENVIRONMENTS: CONFRONTING MATHEMATICAL MODELS WITH ECOSYSTEM COMPLEXITYSunday-Wednesday 19-22 May 2013Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
“It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong”. Richard P. Feynman
INVITATION and PROGRAM
SPEAKERS
Shmuel Assouline
Roni Avissar
Paolo D’Odorico
Simone Fatichi
Gabriel Katul
Sonia Kefi
Jeff McDonnell
Ehud Meron
Efrat Morin
Ran Nathan
Dani Or Ram Oren Jean-Yves Parlange
Marc Parlange
Amilcare-Porporato
Antonello Provenzale
Max Rietkerk
Ignacio Rodriguez-
Iturbe
Todd Scanlon
Shai Sela
John Selker Moshe Shachak
Uri Shavit Maxim Shoshany
Tal Svoray Sally Thompson
Scott Tyler Jost von Hardenberg
Dan Yakir Hezi Yizhaq
PROGRAM
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PROGRAM Day 1: Sunday 19.05.2013Arrival: BGU Hotel, Beer Sheva 19:00 Ice Breaker
Day 2: Monday 20.05.20138:30 Registration
9:00 Opening address: BGU officials
9:30 Presentation of the workshop : Tal Svoray
10:00 Session I: Eco-hydrological processes and vegetation patterns A Chair: Paolo D’Odorico
Moshe Shachak: The role of plants as ecosystem engineers in controlling eco-hydrological processes and resilience to global changesMax Rietkerk: Vegetation-environment feedbacks from local to global scales
Sonia Kefi: Assessing vegetation structure in Mediterranean drylands Simone Fatichi: Vegetation as a filter of interannual climate variability
Day 1 | Day 2
PROGRAM
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Paolo D’Odorico: Eco-hydrological patterns and processes induced by environmental fluctuations
14:00 Session II: Eco-hydrological processes and vegetation patterns B Chair: Roni Avissar
Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe: Vegetation patterns in semiarid river basins: drivers of organization and metabolic implicationRan Nathan: A connectivity-map approach to model plant invasive spread in heterogeneous environmentsSally Thompson: Evolution of vegetation spatial patterns in drylands: interaction of dispersal processes and climatic variation
Tal Svoray: Patch-size distribution and hydrological fluxes in real semi arid hillslopes
Amilcare Porporato: Sustainable use of soil and water resources in semiarid, managed ecosystemsRoni Avissar: Using the Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Model (OLAM) to assess the sensitivity of semiarid regions ecohydrology to climate variations
Day 2
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Day 3: Tuesday 21.05.20139:00 Round table discussion: How far are we from understanding the eco- hydrological processes that determine vegetation patterns? Chair : Amilcare Porporato Paolo D’Odorico, Jost von Hardenberg
10:30 Session III: Flow processes and water regime Chair: Jean-Yves ParlangeJean-Yves Parlange: Infiltration in soils with a saturated surfaceDani Or: What controls evaporation dynamics from porous surfaces?Jeffrey J. McDonnell: Two water worlds? Isotope evidence shows that trees and streams return different pools of water to the hydrosphere in seasonally-arid environmentsMarc Parlange: Ecohydrology of the Savanna region in Burkina Faso
Shmuel Assouline: Impact of soil surface sealing on the ecohydrology of semiarid areas
Shai Sela: Water-vegetation feedbacks in sealed environments Uri Shavit: Canopy edge flows
Day 2 | Day 3
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15:30 Round table discussion: To harness the theory of flow processes to water available for vegetation Chair :Dani Or Marc Parlange, John Selker
17:00 Student's poster session
Day 4: Wednesday 22.05.20139:00 Session IV: Mathematical modeling in ecohydrology Chair: Antonello Provenzale
Ehud Meron: Diversity and dynamics of water-limited vegetation land scapes: universal and non-universal aspects Jost von Hardenberg: Vegetation patterns and evapotranspiration fluxes in drylands Antonello Provenzale: Climate-vegetation interaction in water-limited environ-mentsHezi Yizhaq: The role of spatial heterogeneity of soil depth in vegetation pat-tern formation
Day 3 | Day 4
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11:30 Session V: Coupling water to carbon fluxes and biomass Chair: Dan YakirRam Oren: Spatiotemporal feedback between canopy conductance and soil moisture at the scale of individuals reflects native and imposed variation in canopy densityGaby Katul: The economics of leaf-gas exchange in a fluctuating environment and their upscaling to the canopy-level using turbulent transport theoriesDan Yakir: Contributions of soil properties tree hydraulics and leaf physiology to the ecohydrology of a semi-arid pine forestTodd Scanlon: Flux-variance similarity theory applied to water vapor and carbon dioxide exchange in a semiarid ecosystem
14:30 Session VI: Novel experimental methods Chair: Maxim ShoshanyJohn Selker: Observations of complex ecohydrologic processes at appropriate temporal and spatial scales with Fiber opticsMaxim Shoshany: Water use efficiency, patch pattern properties and biomass in shrublands across Mediterranean climatic gradientScott W. Tyler: The eco-hydrology of the devils hole pupfish: when the Ecology and the Hydrology won’t agree to the same story
Day 4
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Efrat Morin: Desert rain storms and flash floods: Insights gained from space-time characterization and modeling of convective rain cells
17:30 Round table discussion: Confronting mathematical models with field observations Chair: Ehud Meron Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe, Jeffrey McDonnell
18:30 Gaby Katul: Closing Shmuel Assouline: Presenting Special Issue in WRR
20:00 Gala Dinner
Day 4
REGISTRATION
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We are pleased to invite you to join the conference as a participant
Registration is open until April 15 at noon Participants can attend all lectures and present a poster
Registration Form
For further information see the workshop website
Guidelines and recommendations for poster design
For more information you are invited to contact: Rachel Zimmermann at [email protected]
Looking forward to hear from youTal Svoray Shmuel Assouline Gabriel Katul
The Scientific Committee