Chairs: Bradford Paul Wilcox, Texas A&M University, Ecology & Conservation Biology, College Station, United States and Diego A Riveros-Iregui, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Geography, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Primary Convener: Enrique R Vivoni, Arizona State University, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Tempe, United States
Co-Convener: Bradford Paul Wilcox, Texas A & M University College Station, Ecosystem Science and Management, College Station, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison: Erkan Istanbulluoglu, University of Washington, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States
Land degradation and environmental change in dryland ecosystems: irreversibility and long range effects (Invited) (6269)
Paolo D'Odorico, University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, Abinash Bhattachan, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Kailiang Yu, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States and Greg S Okin, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States
More cultivation with lower intensity in the South American Chaco: A double hydrological challenge (26601)
Raul Gimenez1, Jorge Luis Mercau1, Javier Houspanossian1,2, Germán Baldi3, Sylvain Kuppel1 and Esteban G Jobbágy1, (1)National University of San Luis, San Luis, Argentina, (2)CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (3)Grupo de Estudios Ambientales—IMASL CONICET- Universidad Nacional de San Luis, San Luis, Argentina
Simulating the Dependence of Sagebrush Steppe Vegetation on Redistributed Snow in a Semi-Arid Watershed. (17345)
Ben Soderquist1, Kathleen Kavanagh2, Dr. Timothy E Link, PhD3, Eva Kristina Strand1 and Mark S Seyfried4, (1)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (2)Texas A & M University, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, College Station, TX, United States, (3)University of Idaho, Water Resources Program, Moscow, ID, United States, (4)USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, United States
Intra- and inter-community variation in leaf water repellency along a 4000 m elevation transect in the Peruvian Andes (28949)
Gregory R Goldsmith1, Chris Doughty1, Lisa Patrick Bentley1, Alexander Shenkin1, Rosa M Castro-Ccoscco2, Norma Salinas1,2 and Yadvinder Malhi1, (1)Oxford University, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Cusco, Peru
Life in the Treetops: Drought Tolerance and Water Balance of Canopy Epiphytes in a Tropical Montane Cloud Forest (6250)
Sybil G. Gotsch1, Nalini Nadkarni2, Alexander Darby1, Mackenzie Dix3, Andrew Glunk1, Kenneth Davidson3 and Todd E Dawson4, (1)Franklin and Marshall College, Biology, Lancaster, PA, United States, (2)University of Utah, Biology, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, and Mangement, Berkeley, CA, United States
Deciphering Ecohydrological Interactions Using Stable Isotopes (19391)
Jeffrey McDonnell, University of Saskatchewan, School of Environment and Sustainability, Global Institute for Water Security, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Jaivime A Evaristo, PhD, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada and Scott Jasechko, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States
