Chairs: David Galbraith, University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom, Marcos Heil Costa, UFV, Vicosa, Brazil, Bart Kruijt, Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen, Netherlands and Paul R Moorcroft, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Convener: David Galbraith, University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom
Co-conveners: Marcos Heil Costa, UFV Federal University of Vicosa, Vicosa, Brazil, Bart Kruijt, Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen, Netherlands and Paul R Moorcroft, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
OSPA Liaison: David Galbraith, University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom
Amazon Vegetation Response to Anomalously Dry and Wet Years 2010 and 2011 derived from Lower Troposphere Greenhouse Gas Balances (29227)
Emanuel Ulrich Gloor1, Luciana V Gatti2, John B Miller3, Chris Doughty4, Yadvinder Malhi5, Luana S Basso2, Lucas G Domingues2, Saulo R Freitas6, Liana O Anderson6, Oliver L. Phillips1 and Jon Lloyd7, (1)University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom, (2)IPEN Nuclear Energy Research Institute, Sao Paulo, Brazil, (3)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (5)Oxford University, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom, (6)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (7)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Will modeling demographic differences in xylem vulnerability and stomatal closure in tropical trees improve drought response predictions of tropical forests? (31811)
Thomas Powell, Harvard University, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, United States, Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa, UFPA Federal University of Para, Pará, Brazil, Patrick Meir, University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Scott R Saleska, University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States and Paul R Moorcroft, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
Long-term CO2 rise has increased photosynthetic efficiency and water use efficiency but did not stimulate diameter growth of tropical trees (Invited) (21040)
Pieter Zuidema1, Peter van der Sleen2, Peter Groenendijk2, Mart Vlam1, Ina Ehlers3 and Jürgen Schleucher4, (1)Wageningen University, Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen, Netherlands, (2)Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, (3)Umea University, Umeå, Sweden, (4)Umeå University, Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Umeå, Sweden
The Influence of Atmospheric CO2 Concentration and Climate Variability on Amazon Tropical Forest (17253)
Andrea D de Almeida Castanho, UFC Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil; The Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States, David Galbraith, University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom, Ke Zhang, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, Michael Thomas Coe, Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States, Marcos Heil Costa, UFV Federal University of Vicosa, Vicosa, Brazil and Paul R Moorcroft, Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Quantifying and Modelling the Seasonality of Pantropical Forest Net Primary Production Using Field Observations and Remote Sensing Data (16794)
Fabien Hubert Wagner, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, Bruno Hérault, CIRAD Montpellier, UMR Ecologie des Forêts de Guyane, Montpellier Cedex 05, France, Liana O. Anderson, INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, Vivien Rossi, CIRAD Montpellier, UR105, Montpellier Cedex 05, France, Luiz Aragao, INPE National Institute for Space Research, Remote Sensing Division, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil and Team of collaborators for dendrometers datasets of the projet FAPESP 13/14520-6, link to the full list of co-authors: http://trees-research.weebly.com/co-autors.html
Simulating Amazon forest carbon cycling using an individual- and trait-based model. (21569)
Sophie Fauset1, Nikolaos Fyllas2, David Galbraith1, Bradley O Christoffersen3, Tim R. Baker1, Michelle O. Johnson1, Yadvinder Malhi4, Oliver L. Phillips1, Jon Lloyd5 and Emanuel Ulrich Gloor1, (1)University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom, (2)University of Athens, Terrestrial Ecology Group, Athens, Greece, (3)University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (4)University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, (5)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom