Monday Posters

M-01

Using δ²H and δ¹⁸O to Identify the Effect of Land Use and Season on Water Fluxes and Soil-Plant-Water Relations in a Panamanian Lower Montane Watershed (94512)

Luitgard Schwendenmann, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, Francois Jost, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany and Eric E Flores, Sistema Nacional de Investigación de Panamá (SNI) & Panama Wildlife Conservation, Panama City, Panama

M-02

The hydrological functions of litter layer in a bench-terraced rubber monoculture plantation in SW China (94546)

Wen-Jie Liu, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Menglun, China

M-04

Stable isotope variations in a tropical ‘waterscape’ (94585)

Ricardo Sanchez-Murillo, National University of Costa Rica, Chemistry, Heredia, Costa Rica and Christian Birkel, University of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica

M-06

Temporal and Spatial Partitioning of Water Resources in a Seasonal Dry Tropical Climate (94593)

Lien De Wispelaere, University of Ghent, Applied Analytical and Physical Chemistry, Gent, Belgium

M-07

Headwater streamflow regime in the Garhwal Himalaya (India) severely disturbed after advanced forest degradation (94598)

Nuzhat Ul Qayoom Qazi¹, L. Adrian Bruijnzeel², Shive Prakash Rai¹ and Chandra Prasad Ghimire³, (1)National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, India, (2)King's College London, London, United Kingdom, (3)University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information and Earth Observation, Enschede, Netherlands

M-08

Peak discharge dynamics in response to vegetation cover change and variability of precipitation events in steep tropical mountain catchments: case of the western Rift Valley escarpment of Northern Ethiopia (94601)

Tesfaalem Ghebreyohannes Asfaha, Mekelle University, Geography & Environmental Studies, Mekelle, Ethiopia

M-09

Landscapes of change: A review of ecohydrology research in Hawaii (94619)

Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and Thomas W Giambelluca, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Geography, Honolulu, HI, United States

M-10

An Assessment of the Survivability of Livestock and other Available Agricultural Produce in Oguta Eco-system in Imo State of Nigeria (94620)

Fidelis Chinazor Okorie and Ifeanyi J Oduaro, Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria

M-11

An open-source automation unit for measuring infiltration flux and (un)saturated soil hydraulic conductivities using tension infiltrometry (94867)

Alberto Gomez-Tagle Jr.¹, Edgar Mora Damian¹ and L.A. (Sampurno) Bruijnzeel², (1)Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Mexico, (2)Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, United States

M-12

Mechanisms for successful biological restoration of the threatened Juniperus procera (Cupressaceae) on degraded landscape, Ethiopia. (94628)

Birhanu Kagnew Bekele Sr., Hawassa University, Biology, Hawassa, Ethiopia

M-14

Monoterpene ‘thermometer’ of tropical forest response to climate warming (94644)

Kolby Jardine¹, Angela Jardine², Jennifer A. Holm¹, Danica Lombardozzi³, Robinson I Negron Juarez¹, Harry R Beller¹, Scot T Martin⁴, Bruno Gimenez², Jeff Chambers¹ and Niro Higuchi², (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States

M-15

Diurnal patterns of leaf transpiration/stomatal conductance, leaf water potential, and sap flow in the Central Amazonian: Are patterns driven by an imbalance between leaf transpiration and sap flow? (94648)

Clarissa Fontes¹, Kolby Jardine², Todd E Dawson³, Bruno Gimenez⁴, Niro Higuchi⁴, Jennifer A. Holm², Jeffrey Q Chambers¹ and NGEE Tropics Manaus Pilot Study Team, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Center for Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil

M-18

Land use changes diminish soil water storage in highland ecosystems of central Argentina (94658)

María Poca^1,2, Valentina Saur Palmieri², Diego E. Gurvich^1,2 and Ana M. Cingolani^1,2, (1)Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba), Córdoba, Argentina, (2)Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina

M-19

Satellite and model-based characterization of canopy dew formation in tropical forests (94662)

Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi¹, Steve E Frolking² and Kelly K Caylor¹, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States

M-20

Leaf Temperature and Sap Flow Dynamic Coupling in Canopy Dominant Trees in the Central Amazon (94663)

Bruno Gimenez¹, Kolby Jardine², Clarissa Fontes³, Robinson I Negron Juarez², Jennifer A. Holm², Jeffrey Q Chambers³ and Niro Higuchi¹, (1)INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States

M-21

From leaf to ecosystem level: controls of transpiration in seasonal tropical forests across a rainfall gradient (94665)

Matteo Detto¹, Stuart J Davies², Brett Wolfe¹, S. Joseph Wright¹, Steve Paton¹ and Helene C Muller-Landau³, (1)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama, (2)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Washington DC, United States, (3)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panama

M-22

Evidence for the two water worlds hypothesis for seasonal ecosystems of central Argentinean highlands (94666)

María Poca^1,2, Pedro Hervé-Fernández^3,4, Diego E. Gurvich^1,2, Ana M. Cingolani^1,2, Esteban G Jobbagy⁵ and Pascal F M Boeckx³, (1)Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina, (2)Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal (CONICET - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba), Córdoba, Argentina, (3)Isotope Bioscience Laboratory – ISOFYS, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium, (4)Laboratory of Hydrology and Water Management (LHWM), Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium, (5)Grupo de Estudios Ambientales—IMASL CONICET- Universisad Nacional de San Luis, San Luis, Argentina

M-23

Global convergence of rainfall-streamflow regulation by natural forests (94668)

Daniel A Mercado-Bettin, Juan Villegas and Juan Fernando Salazar, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia

M-24

Assessing the Influence of Land Use and Catchment Characteristics on Stream Water Chemistry in the South-West Mau, Kenya, Using Spatial Sampling and High Resolution In-situ Monitoring (94679)

Suzanne Robin Jacobs^1,2, Björn Weeser^3,4, Lutz Breuer^3,4, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl^1,5 and Mariana Rufino², (1)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, (2)Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia, (3)Centre for International Development and Environmental Research, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, (4)Institute for Landscape Ecology and Resources Management (ILR), Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, (5)International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

M-25

Identifying Hydrological Fluxes and Processes within the Sondu Basin, Kenya Using Automatic Measuring Stations and Crowdsourced Data (94684)

Björn Weeser^1,2, Suzanne Robin Jacobs^3,4, Lutz Breuer^1,2, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl^4,5 and Mariana Rufino³, (1)Centre for International Development and Environmental Research, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, (2)Institute for Landscape Ecology and Resources Management (ILR), Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, (3)Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor, Indonesia, (4)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, (5)International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya

M-26

Effects of reforestation on saturated soil hydraulic conductivity and surface runoff in upland Eastern Madagascar (94686)

Ilja H.J. van Meerveld¹, Chandra Prasad Ghimire², Bob W Zwartendijk¹, Maafaka Ravelona³, Jaona Lahitiana⁴ and L.a. (Sampurno) Bruijnzeel⁵, (1)University of Zurich, Department of Geography, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information and Earth Observation, Enschede, Netherlands, (3)Laboratoire des Radio-Isotopes, University of Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar, (4)Laboratoire des Radio-Isotopes, Antananarivo, Madagascar, (5)King's College London, Geography, London, United Kingdom

M-28

Energy-balance Based Model Accurately Reproduces the Spatial Distribution of Evapotranspiration Over the Andean Páramo (94689)

Galo Carrillo-Rojas^1,2, Brenner Silva¹, Mario Córdova², Rolando Célleri² and Jörg Bendix¹, (1)Philipps-Universität Marburg, Laboratory for Climatology and Remote Sensing, Faculty of Geography, Deutschhausstr. 12, 35032, Marburg, Germany, (2)Universidad de Cuenca, Departamento de Recursos Hídricos y Ciencias Ambientales, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas & Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Av. 12 de abril s/n, EC010207, Cuenca, Ecuador

M-29

Land cover and climate interactions of Andean páramo ecosystems – disentangling the hydro-biogeochemical response of a mountainous headwater catchment in Southern Ecuador (94692)

David Windhorst¹, Sarah Schob¹, Giovanny Mosquera^1,2, Patricio Crespo² and Lutz Breuer¹, (1)Justus Liebig University Giessen, Institute for Landscape Ecology and Resources Management, Giessen, Germany, (2)Universidad de Cuenca, Departamento de Recursos Hídricos y Ciencias Ambientales & Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Cuenca, Ecuador

M-30

Variation in plant water use and water use efficiency of planted monocultures and mixtures: Toward proper species selection for reforestation efforts in the seasonally dry tropics (94696)

Katherine Sinacore^1,2, Heidi Asbjornsen² and Jefferson S Hall³, (1)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Applied Ecology Lab, Panama, Panama, (2)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (3)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama

M-31

Does a forested Caatinga hold more water? (94697)

Cynthia Wright¹, Eduardo de Souza², José Romualdo de Sousa Lima³, Jason B West¹ and Brad Wilcox¹, (1)Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Serra Talhada, Brazil, (3)Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Garanhuns, Brazil

M-32

Insights on the Rainfall-Runoff Response Controls in two High-Elevation Tropical Ecosystems (94703)

Giovanny Mosquera¹, Edison Timbe¹, Rolando Célleri¹, David Windhorst², Lutz Breuer² and Patricio Crespo¹, (1)Universidad de Cuenca, Departamento de Recursos Hídricos y Ciencias Ambientales & Facultad de Ciencias Agropecuarias, Cuenca, Ecuador, (2)Justus Liebig University Giessen, Institute for Landscape Ecology and Resources Management, Giessen, Germany

M-33

Photosynthetic responses to leaf surface wetness in tropical and semiarid savannah trees with varying leaf traits (94704)

Luiza Maria T Aparecido¹, Georgianne W Moore², Gretchen R Miller² and Anthony T Cahill², (1)Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States, (2)Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States

M-35

The Effect of Vegetation on the Seasonality of Precipitation in the Amazon: Preliminary Insights and Observations (94707)

Nathalia Correa-Carmona, Paola Andrea Arias and Juan Villegas, Universidad de Antioquia, Escuela Ambiental, Grupo de Ingeniería y Gestión Ambiental (GIGA), Medellin, Colombia

M-36

Hydrological modeling in the Andean highlands: climate change scenarios in Chingaza páramo, Colombia (94710)

Eydith Girleza Gil Morales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medlelín, Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia and Conrado Tobón, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín, Colombia

M-37

Biological Controls on Hydrological Response in Tropical Catchments (94712)

Fred L Ogden, Univ. of Wyoming - Dept 3295, Laramie, WY, United States

M-38

Is cloud height formation increasing in tropical montane cloud forests? (94713)

Jia Hu, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States and Diego A Riveros-Iregui, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States