B11G:
Understanding Present and Future Amazonian Rainforests I Posters

Session ID#: 4732

Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Not an Option (Moscone West)
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
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Using empirical measurements of tree branching architecture to scale whole-tree metabolism along a 4000 m elevation transect in the Peruvian Andes and Amazon (28951)
Lisa Patrick Bentley1, Alexander Shenkin2, Brian Joseph Enquist3 and Yadvinder Malhi1, (1)University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, United States
 
Tree Diametric Increment and Litterfall Production in an Eastern Amazonian Forest: the Role of Functional Groups (28861)
Plinio Barbosa de Camargo1, Mauricio Lamano Ferreira1, Raimundo Cosme Oliveira Junior2 and Scott R Saleska3, (1)Universidade de São Paulo, Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, Laboratório de Ecologia Isotópica, Piracicaba, Brazil, (2)EMBRAPA Amazonia Oriental/CPATU, Santarem, Brazil, (3)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Implication of Forest-Savanna Dynamics on Biomass and Carbon Stock: Effectiveness of an Amazonian Ecological Station (12755)
Fabiana Rita Couto-Santos1,2 and Flavio J Luizao2, (1)UFV Federal University of Vicosa, Vicosa, Brazil, (2)INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, LBA The Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia, Manaus, Brazil
 
Partitioning the climatic and biological controls on photosynthetic fluxes in Amazonian tropical evergreen forests (29946)
Jin Wu1, Kaiyu Guan2, Loren Albert1, Matthew Hayek3, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe4, Neill Prohaska5, Kenia T Wiedemann6, Suelen F Marostica7, Scott C Stark8, Marielle Natasha Smith8, Rodrigo da Silva9, Dennis G Dye10, Bruce W Nelson11, Alfredo R Huete12 and Scott R Saleska13, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)Stanford University, Stanford, United States, (3)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)University of Arizona, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (5)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, United States, (6)Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, (7)National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil, (8)Michigan State University, Department of Forestry, East Lansing, MI, United States, (9)Federal University of Western Pará, Santarém, Brazil, (10)USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, United States, (11)INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil, (12)University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Science, Ultimo, NSW, Australia, (13)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Seasonality of Central Amazon Forest Leaf Flush Using Tower-Mounted RGB Camera (7861)
Bruce W Nelson1, Julia V Tavares1, Jin Wu2, Dalton M Valeriano3, Aline P Lopes1, Suelen F Marostica1, Giordane Martins1, Neill Prohaska4, Loren Albert2, Alessandro C De Araujo5, Antonio O Manzi1, Scott R Saleska6 and Alfredo R Huete7, (1)National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil, (2)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)National Space Research Institute (INPE), São José dos Campos, Brazil, (4)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, United States, (5)Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), Belem, PA, Brazil, (6)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (7)University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Science, Ultimo, NSW, Australia
 
Leaf demography and physiology of the Tapajós National Forest: could phenology cause a forest-level increase in gross primary productivity during the dry season? (26480)
Loren Albert1, Jin Wu1, Neill Prohaska2, Plinio Barbosa de Camargo3, Raimundo Cosme Jr.4, Travis E Huxman5 and Scott R Saleska6, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, United States, (3)University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, United States, (4)EMBRAPA Brazilian Agricultural Research Corportation, Campinas, Brazil, (5)University of California, Irvine, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Irvine, United States, (6)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
For everything there is a season, including Amazonian tropical forests (31247)
Scott R Saleska1, Jin Wu2, Bruce W Nelson3, Julia V Tavares4, Loren Albert2, Neill Prohaska5, Kaiyu Guan6, Rodrigo da Silva7, Alessandro C De Araujo8, Antonio Donato Nobre3, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe9 and Alfredo R Huete10, (1)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil, (4)National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil, (5)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, United States, (6)Stanford University, Stanford, United States, (7)Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Santarem, Brazil, (8)EMBRAPA Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation- EMBRAPA, Embrapa Amazonia Oriental, Belem, Brazil, (9)University of Arizona, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (10)University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Science, Ultimo, NSW, Australia
 
Spatial Patterns of Carbon Exchange Seasonality in Amazonian Forest (17037)
Liang Xu1, Sassan S Saatchi1,2, Yan Yang3,4, Ranga Myneni5, Christian Frankenberg6 and Diya Chowdhury3, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (5)Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
 
Satellite lidar data do not show static greenness in wet equatorial Amazonian rainforests (29238)
Sungho CHOI1, Taejin Park2, Jian Bi1, Yuri Knyazikhin3 and Ranga B Myneni3, (1)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (2)Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, United States, (3)Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States
 
Conjoint Seasonal and Intraseasonal Dynamics of Precipitation and NDVI Over The Amazon And The Congo Rainforests (17826)
Leidy Johanna Yepes and German Poveda, National University of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
 
Hydrogeochemistry of the Overland Flow in Soil at Agroecosystems in Eastern Amazon (28965)
Cristiane Formigosa Gadelha da Costa, CENA Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, Piracicaba, Brazil, Ricardo de Oliveira Figueiredo, EMBRAPA Brazilian Agricultural Research Corportation, Environment, Campinas, Brazil and Francisco de Assis Oliveira, UFRA Federal Rural University of Amazon, Institute of Agricultural Sciences (ICA), Belém, Brazil
 
Forest response to increased disturbance in the Central Amazon and comparison to Western Amazonian forests (18783)
Jennifer A. Holm, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Jeffrey Q Chambers, University of California Berkeley, Department of Geography, Berkeley, United States, William Drew Collins, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Science, Berkeley, CA, United States and Kolby Jardine, National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA), Forest Management Laboratory, Manaus, Brazil
 
Simulating drought impacts on energy balance in an Amazonian rainforest (2391)
Hewlley A Imbuzeiro1, Marcos Heil Costa2, David Galbraith3, Bradley O Christoffersen4, Thomas Powell5, Anna B Harper6, Naomi Marcil Levine7, Lucy Rowland8, Paul R Moorcroft9, Victor Hugo Benezoli2, Patrick Meir8, Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa10, Paulo M Brando11, Yadvinder Malhi12, Scott R Saleska13 and Mathew Williams8, (1)UFV Federal University of Vicosa, Agricultural Engineering, Vicosa, Brazil, (2)UFV Federal University of Vicosa, Vicosa, Brazil, (3)University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom, (4)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (5)Harvard University, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, United States, (6)University of Exeter, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Exeter, United Kingdom, (7)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (8)University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (9)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (10)UFPA Federal University of Para, Pará, Brazil, (11)Yale University, School of the Environment, New Haven, CT, United States, (12)University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, (13)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Linking Tropical Forest Function to Hydraulic Traits in a Size-Structured and Trait-Based Model (19089)
Bradley O Christoffersen1, Emanuel Ulrich Gloor2, Sophie Fauset2, Nikos Fyllas3, David Galbraith2, Tim R. Baker2, Lucy Rowland1, Rosie Fisher4, Oliver Binks1, Maurizio Mencuccini1,5, Yadvinder Malhi6, Clément Stahl7, Fabien Hubert Wagner8, Damien Bonal9, Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa10, Leandro Ferreira11 and Patrick Meir1,12, (1)University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom, (3)University of Athens, Terrestrial Ecology Group, Athens, Greece, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)CREAF, Cerdanyola Del Valle, Spain, (6)University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, (7)Joint Research Unit Ecology of Guiana Forests (UMR EcoFoG), Kourou, French Guiana, (8)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (9)INRA Université de Lorraine, UMR EEF 1137, 54280 Champenoux, France, (10)UFPA Federal University of Para, Pará, Brazil, (11)Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belem, Brazil, (12)Australian National University, Research School of Biology, Canberra, Australia
 
The carbon cycle response of the Amazon forest during the 2010 drought in dynamic global vegetation models (19014)
Anna B Harper1,2, Pierre Friedlingstein3, Stephen Sitch3, Peter Michael Cox4, Chris Jones2, Almut Arneth5, Athanasios Arvanitis6, Philippe Ciais7, Christian Frankenberg8, Atul K. Jain9, Etsushi Kato10, Sam Levis11, Nick Parazoo12, Benjamin Poulter13, Benjamin David Stocker14, Andy Wiltshire2 and Soenke Zaehle15, (1)University of Exeter, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Exeter, United Kingdom, (2)Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)University of Exeter, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, Exeter, United Kingdom, (4)University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, (5)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, (6)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, (7)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France, (8)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (9)University of Illinois at Urbana, Urbana, United States, (10)NIES National Institute of Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan, (11)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (12)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (13)Spark Climate Solutions, Greenbelt, United States, (14)Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (15)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
 
The Sensitivity of Wet and Dry Tropical Forests to Climate Change in Bolivia (28045)
Ronald W A Hutjes1, Christian Seiler, PhD1,2, Bart Kruijt3 and Thomas Hickler4, (1)Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, (2)University of Victoria, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, Victoria, BC, Canada, (3)Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen, Netherlands, (4)Senckenberg Research Institute, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt, Germany
 
Effects of Amazon Drought on Eastern Pacific SST (6562)
Leah A Lindsey, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Prof. David A Randall, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States
 
Assessing the Future Climate Change in Amazon Basin as Derived from the PRECIS Regional Climate Modeling System (16943)
Lincoln Muniz Alves, INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, Jose A Marengo, CEMADEN National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters, Research and Development, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil and Rong Fu, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
A Space-Time Unified Data Set of General Circulation Model Outputs for Land Surface Modeling over Amazonia (18391)
Sanaz Moghim1, Shawna L McKnight1, Ke Zhang2, Ardeshir M Ebtehaj3, Ryan G Knox4, Rafael L Bras5, Paul R Moorcroft6 and Jingfeng Wang7, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (3)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, United States, (6)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (7)GA Ins of Tech-Civil & Env Eng, Atlanta, United States
 
Effects of CO2 Physiological Forcing on Amazon Climate (22105)
Kate Halladay, Peter Good, Gillian Kay and Richard Arthur Betts, Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom
 
Light in Tropical Forest Models: What Detail Matters? (16175)
Alexander Shenkin, Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, United States, Lisa Patrick Bentley, University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, Gregory Paul Asner, Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, CA, United States and Yadvinder Malhi, Oxford University, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
New estimates of temperature response of leaf photosynthesis in Amazon forest trees, its acclimation to mean temperature change and consequences for modelling climate response to rain forests. (23124)
Wilma Jans1, Steel Vasconcelos2, Edgard S Tribuzy3, Cristina Felsemburgh3, Melem Eliane2, Lucy Rowland4, Antonio Carlos Lola da Costa5, Patrick Meir4 and Bart Kruijt6, (1)Alterra, Wageningen, Netherlands, (2)EMBRAPA Brazilian Agricultural Research Corportation, Belem, Brazil, (3)Universidade Federal do Para, Santarem, Brazil, (4)University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (5)UFPA Federal University of Para, Pará, Brazil, (6)Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen, Netherlands
 
Biomass Change of the Landless Peasants' Settlements in Lower Amazon (11311)
Kanae Ishimaru, Fukui Prefectural University, Fukui, Japan and Sayaka Yoshikawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
 
Exploring different scenarios of land use policy and their impacts on provision of ecosystem services in Amazonia (17524)
Celso von Randow1, Ana Paula Dutra Aguiar1, Thonicke Kirsten2, Hans Verbeeck3, Matthieu Guimberteau4, Fanny Langerwisch5, Anja Rammig5, David Galbraith6, Jelena Maksic1 and Bart Kruijt7, (1)Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, São José dos Campos, Brazil, (2)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, RD1 - Earth System Analysis, Potsdam, Germany, (3)Ghent University, CAVELab - Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology, Gent, Belgium, (4)Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat: expérimentations et approches numériques (LOCEAN), Paris, France, (5)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, (6)University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom, (7)Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen, Netherlands
 
New Reasons to Preserve the Amazon Rainforest (4345)
Marcos Heil Costa, UFV Federal University of Vicosa, Vicosa, Brazil
 
Early warning for global change-induced critical degradation of Amazonia: science and a blue-print for implementation from the AMAZALERT project (29406)
Bart Kruijt1,2, Celso von Randow2, Peter Good3, Gillian Kay3, Jan A Elbers4, Gilvan Sampaio de Oliveira2, Antoon Meesters5, Carlos Afonso Nobre6 and AMAZALERT EU-FP7 project team, (1)Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen, Netherlands, (2)Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, São José dos Campos, Brazil, (3)Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom, (4)Alterra, Wageningen, Netherlands, (5)VU University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (6)USP University of Sao Paulo, São José dos Campos, Brazil
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