B54C:
Global Forest Dynamics and Interactions with a Changing Climate III

Session ID#: 4446

Friday, 19 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
2004 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Abigail L S Swann, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science and Department of Biology, Seattle, United States, David D Breshears, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States, Scott C Stark, Michigan State University, Department of Forestry, East Lansing, MI, United States and Scott R Saleska, University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Convener:  Kristina J Anderson-Teixeira, Smithsonian Institution, Front Royal, United States
Co-conveners:  Sean McMahon, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Forest Global Earth Observatory, Balboa, Panama, Matteo Detto, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, LaVerne, United States and Scott C Stark, Michigan State University, Department of Forestry, East Lansing, MI, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Scott C Stark, Michigan State University, Department of Forestry, East Lansing, MI, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Could Ecosystem Change over Amazonia Influence Climate over North America? (Invited) (9901)
Rong Fu, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States, Paola andrea Arias Gomez, Universidad de Antioquia, Escuela Ambiental,, Medellín, Colombia and Hui Wang, NOAA, Climate Prediction Center, College Park, United States
The spectrum of natural forest disturbances and the Amazon forest carbon balance (26065)
Fernando D.B. Espirito-Santo1, Manuel Gloor2, Michael Maier Keller3, Yadvinder Malhi4, Sassan S Saatchi5, Bruce W Nelson6, Raimundo Cosme Oliveira Junior7, Cleuton Pereira8, Jon Lloyd9, Steve E Frolking10, Michael W Palace11, Yosio E Shimabukuro12, Valdete Duarte13, Abel Mendoza14, Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez2, Tim R. Baker2, Ted Feldpausch2, Gregory Paul Asner15, Doreen Boyd16 and Oliver L. Phillips17, (1)Lancaster University, Lancaster Environment Centre,, Lancastter, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leeds, Geography Department, Leeds, United Kingdom, (3)Usda Forest Service C/o Gisel, Campinas, Brazil, (4)University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil, (7)Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Santarém, Brazil, (8)Researcher, Santarem, Brazil, (9)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (10)University of New Hampshire, Durham, United States, (11)University of New Hampshire, Dept. of Earth Sciences and Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, United States, (12)National Institute For Space Research (INPE), Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (13)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (14)Jardin Botanico de Missouri, Oxapampa, Peru, (15)Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, CA, United States, (16)University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, (17)University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom
Model and Inventory Perspectives on the Role of Forests in the Global Carbon Cycle: Results from the Multi-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project (MsTMIP) (25425)
Daniel J Hayes1, Guangsheng Chen2, Jiafu Mao3, Richard Birdsey4, Yude Pan5, Deborah N Huntzinger6, Christopher Schwalm7, Anna M Michalak8, Yaxing Wei2, Robert B Cook2, Kevin M Schaefer9, Andrew R Jacobson10, Muhammad Altaf Arain11, Philippe Ciais12, Joshua Fisher13, Maoyi Huang14, Suo Huang11, Atul K Jain15, Huimin Lei16, Chaoqun Lu17, Fabienne Maignan18, Nick Parazoo19, Changhui Peng20, Shushi Peng18, Benjamin Poulter21, Daniel M Ricciuto3, Xiaoying Shi22, Hanqin Tian23, Ning Zeng24 and Fang Zhao24, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (4)Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States, (5)USDA Forest Service, Durham, NH, United States, (6)Northern Arizona University, School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (7)Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (8)Stanford University, Stanford, United States, (9)National Snow and Ice Data Center, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A, Boulder, United States, (10)University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, United States, (11)McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (12)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France, (13)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (14)National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Science and Technology Integration, Silver Spring, MD, United States, (15)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States, (16)Pacific NW Nat'l Lab-Atmos Sci, Richland, WA, United States, (17)Auburn University at Montgomery, Montgomery, AL, United States, (18)CEA Saclay DSM / LSCE, Gif sur Yvette, France, (19)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (20)University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Department of Biology Sciences, Montreal, QC, Canada, (21)Spark Climate Solutions, Greenbelt, United States, (22)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (23)Auburn University, Auburn, United States, (24)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
Stress Related Changes In Photosynthetic Activity In The Amazon Rainforest (17682)
Celio Helder Resende de Sousa1, Thomas Hilker2, Forrest G Hall3, Yhasmin Mendes Moura4 and Erick McAdam2, (1)University of Maryland Baltimore County, GESTAR, Baltimore, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
Fine-Scale Relief in the Amazon Drives Large Scale Ecohydrological Processes (Invited) (5540)
Antonio Donato Nobre, INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil; INPE National Institute for Space Research, Center for Earth System Science, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, Adriana Cuartas, Cemaden, Hydrology, São José dos Campos SP, Brazil, Martin Hodnett, retired, London, United Kingdom and Scott R Saleska, University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States
The role of transpiration on the hydrological cycle (Invited) (3607)
Jung-Eun Lee, Brown University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States
Inter-hemispheric eco-climatic connections in the Americas: A possible influence of a longer dry season over the Amazon forests on the North American monsoon (6488)
Paola Andrea Arias, Universidad de Antioquia, Escuela Ambiental, Grupo de Ingeniería y Gestión Ambiental (GIGA), Medellin, Colombia; Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Geofísica, Santiago, Chile, Rong Fu, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Carolina Vera, Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmosfera, Buenos Aires, Argentina and Maisa Rojas, Universidad de Chile, Department of Geophysics, Santiago, Chile
Local to regional scale energy balance consequences of widespread mortality in piñon-juniper woodlands (Invited) (25476)
Marcy E Litvak1, Daniel J Krofcheck2, Laura Morillas2, Timothy W Hilton3 and Andrew M Fox4, (1)University of New Mexico, Department of Biology, Albuquerque, United States, (2)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
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