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Topical Collection by invitation only: 11th BIOGEOMON International Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior 2024
This Topical Collection of Biogeochemistry solicits a collection of original papers from the 11th BIOGEOMON, International Symposium on Ecosystem Behavior, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico on January 7th–11th 2024. Since the very first Symposium held by the Czech Geological Survey in 1987 (Prague), BIOGEOMON continues to thrive. The Puerto Rico meeting marked the first time BIOGEOMON was held in a tropical setting, with 132 participants from 11 countries on 3 continents. Prior BIOGEOMON symposia have been held in Prague, Czechoslovakia (1987,1992); Villanova, Pennsylvania USA (1997); Reading, United Kingdom (2002); Santa Cruz, California USA (2006); Helsinki, Finland (2009); Northport, Maine USA (2012); Bayreuth, Germany (2014); Litomyšl, Czech Republic (2017); and Tartu, Estonia (2022).
BIOGEOMON emphasizes recent advances in ecosystem biogeochemistry. Biogeochemical dynamics and integrated at the conference covered main key topics: Tropical Biogeochemistry, Aquatic Carbon Cycling in the Anthropocene, Soil carbon stabilization and sequestration, Nutrient cycling changes, Wetland hydrology and biogeochemistry, Metal and biogeochemical cycling on geological and historical timescales, Modeling and synthesis for scaling biogeochemical cycling across space and time, responses to extreme events, Solute and sediment generation across watersheds and scales, and Plant-soil-microbe interactions as drivers of ecosystem processes. Many of these processes occur at spatial levels that span from local sites to regional landscape to continental and global scale.
Papers published in this Topical Collection of Biogeochemistry will cover a wide array of research topics from the microscale, such as microbial and rhizosphere dynamics, to the macroscale including integrated monitoring and modeling.
BIOGEOMON 2024 was sponsored by the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus in San Juan, Luquillo Long-Term Ecological Research (LUQ-LTER), International Institute for Tropical Forestry (IITF), University of New Hampshire, University of Maine, and the Czech Geological Survey. BIOGEOMON is sustained by the dedication of each local organizing group, and the underlying commitment of the Czech Geological Survey.
Editors
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Dr. Justin Richardson
Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA (justin.richardson@virginia.edu)
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Dr. James (Jamie) Shanley
United States Geological Survey, New England Water Science Center, Montpelier, VT, USA
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Dr. William (Bill) McDowell
University of New Hampshire, Natural Resources and the Environment, Durham, NH, USA
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Dr. Amanda Olsen
University of Maine, School of Earth and Climate Sciences, Orono, ME, USA
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Dr. Christine (Christy) Goodale
Cornell University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY, USA
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Dr. Stephen Sebestyen
USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Grand Rapids, MN, USA
