GC21H:
Drought and Its Impacts on Terrestrial Ecosystems: Current Understanding and Future Prospects I

Session ID#: 3616

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
3016 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Melinda Dianne Smith, Colorado State University, Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Fort Collins, United States and Alan Knapp, Colorado State University, Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Fort Collins, United States
Primary Convener:  Melinda Dianne Smith, Colorado State University, Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Fort Collins, United States
Co-conveners:  Osvaldo Sala, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States, Richard P Phillips, Indiana University, Department of Biology, Bloomington, IN, United States and Alan Knapp, Colorado State University, Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Fort Collins, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Scott L Collins, Department of Biology, MSC03-2020, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

0315 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND STRUCTURE]
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Welcoming Remarks
GC21H-01
How Does Drought Change With Climate Change (Invited) (2604)
Kevin E Trenberth, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
GC21H-02
Consistent Predictions of Future Forest Mortality (Invited) (5698)
Nathan G G McDowell, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
GC21H-03
Drought and tree mortality in tropical rainforest: understanding and differentiating functional responses (20797)
Patrick Meir1,2, Lucy Rowland3, Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa4, Maurizio Mencuccini1, Alex Oliveira4, Oliver Binks3, Bradley O Christoffersen3, Melem Eliane5, Steel Vasconcelos5,6, Bart Kruijt7, Leandro Ferreira8 and Esecaflor Amazon drought experiment, (1)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (2)Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, (3)University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (4)UFPA Federal University of Para, Pará, Brazil, (5)EMBRAPA Brazilian Agricultural Research Corportation, Campinas, Brazil, (6)EMBRAPA Brazilian Agricultural Research Corportation, Belem, Brazil, (7)Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen, Netherlands, (8)Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belem, Brazil
GC21H-04
HISTORICAL CONTINGENCIES IN MICROBIAL RESPONSES TO DROUGHT (Invited) (3087)
Christine Hawkes1, Bonnie Grace Waring1,2, Jennifer Rocca1,3, Stephanie N. Kivlin1, Hannah Giauque1 and Colin Averill1, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Integrative Biology, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
GC21H-05
Stability of Grassland Communities to Altered Precipitation: A Meta-Analysis (Invited) (4499)
Yiqi Luo1, Zheng Shi2, Scott L Collins3, Alan Knapp4, William Pockman5 and Melinda Dianne Smith4, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma, Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, United States, (3)Department of Biology, MSC03-2020, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, United States, (4)Colorado State University, Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Fort Collins, United States, (5)Department of Biology, MSC03-2020, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
GC21H-06
Sensitivity of Carbon and Water Fluxes to Droughts across the Conterminous United States (31965)
Hanqin Tian, Auburn University, Auburn, United States; Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States and Jia Yang, International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States
GC21H-07
Drought-Net: An international network to assess terrestrial ecosystem sensitivity to drought (14025)
Melinda Dianne Smith, Colorado State University, Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Fort Collins, United States, Richard P Phillips, Indiana University, Department of Biology, Bloomington, IN, United States and Osvaldo Sala, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States
Concluding Remarks
Discussion
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