GC23C:
Drought and Its Impacts on Terrestrial Ecosystems: Current Understanding and Future Prospects II Posters

Session ID#: 5163

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Not an Option (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:
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Spatio-Temporal Drought Analysis on Example of the Central European Gridded Dataset (27110)
Petr Stepanek1,2, Miroslav Trnka3,4, Pavel Zahradníček2,4, Daniela Semerádová4,5 and Petr Hlavinka4,5, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, Brno, Czech Republic, (3)Mendel University in Brno, Department of Agrosystems and Bioclimatology, Brno, Czech Republic, (4)Global Change Research Centre AS CR, v. v. i., Brno, Czech Republic, (5)Mendel University, Department of Agrosystems and Bioclimatology, Brno, Czech Republic
 
The extreme drought episode of August 2011-May 2012: A scenario for future droughts in Central Europe? (12205)
Pavel Zahradníček1,2, Miroslav Trnka1,3, Rudolf Brázdil4,5, Martin Mozny2, Petr Stepanek1,2, Petr Hlavinka1,6, Antonín Malý2 and Martin Dubrovsky7, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, Brno, Czech Republic, (3)Mendel University in Brno, Department of Agrosystems and Bioclimatology, Brno, Czech Republic, (4)Masaryk University, Institute of Geography, Brno, Czech Republic, (5)Global Change Research Institute CAS, Brno, Czech Republic, (6)Mendel University, Department of Agrosystems and Bioclimatology, Brno, Czech Republic, (7)Institute of Atmospheric Physics CAS, Prague, Czech Republic
 
An Analysis of Drought Indicators for Detecting Dry Spells over Boreal Forest (21899)
Yao Gao1,2, Tiina Markkanen2 and Tuula Aalto3, (1)University of Helsinki, Department of Atmosphere, Helsinki, Finland, (2)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Greenhouse Gas Group, Helsinki, Finland, (3)Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
 
Effects of an Experimental Drought on Balsam Fir Xylogenesis in the Eastern Canada Boreal Forest. (4617)
Loïc D'Orangeville, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, QC, Canada, Benoît Côté, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Daniel Houle, Quebec Ministry of Natural Resources MRN, Forest Research, Quebec City, QC, Canada and Hubert Morin, Département des Sciences fondamentales, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, QC, Canada, Chicoutimi, QC, Canada
 
Effects of Intensified 21st Century Drought on the Boreal Forest of Alaska (27744)
Glenn Patrick Juday1, Claire M Alix2, Ryan Jess3 and Thomas A. Grant III3, (1)College of Natural Science and Mathematics, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK 99775, Fairbanks, United States, (2)Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Maison de l’Archéologie et de l’Ethnologie, Paris, France, (3)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
 
In Forests Globally, Large Trees Suffer Most during Drought (5854)
Amy C Bennett, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Nathan G G McDowell, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Craig R Allen, USGS Jemez Mountains Field Station, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Kristina J Anderson-Teixeira, Smithsonian Institution, Front Royal, United States
 
A novel approach for diagnosing isohydric and anisohydric plant water use during drought (19050)
Kimberly A Novick, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, Daniel Tyler Roman, Indiana University Bloomington, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, IN, United States, Edward R Brzostek, West Virginia University, Department of Biology, Morgantown, WV, United States, Danilo Dragoni, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Geography, Bloomington, IN, United States and Richard P Phillips, Indiana University, Department of Biology, Bloomington, IN, United States
 
Challenges and Solutions for Simulating Drought-Caused Tree Mortality in Earth System Models (8912)
Chonggang Xu1, Nathan G G McDowell1, Rosemary Fisher2 and Sanna Sevanto1, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (2)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Northern Forest DroughtNet: A New Framework to Understand Impacts of Precipitation Change on the Northern Forest Ecosystem (27322)
Heidi Asbjornsen1, Lindsey Rustad2, Pamela H Templer3, Katie Jennings1, Richard P Phillips4 and Melinda Dianne Smith5, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Durham, NH, United States, (3)Boston University, Department of Biology, Boston, MA, United States, (4)Indiana University, Department of Biology, Bloomington, IN, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Fort Collins, United States
 
Nitrogen and Water Addition Increased Sensitivity of Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes to Manipulated Extreme Drought in a Meadow Steppe of Northern China (11987)
Wei Sun, Yunbo Wang, Qi Jiang and Deli Wang, Northeast Normal University, Institute of Grassland Science, Changchun, China
 
Impact of Drought and Precipitation Seasonality on Net Primary Production and Plant Community Composition Across a Grassland Ecotone in New Mexico (23716)
Scott L Collins1, Michell L Thomey2, Renée F Brown3, Nate Gehres2, Matthew D Petrie4, Kristin Vanderbilt2 and William Pockman5, (1)Department of Biology, MSC03-2020, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, United States, (2)University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)University of New Mexico, Department of Biology, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (4)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (5)Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
Differential Sensitivity to Drought in Six Central U.S. Grasslands (17700)
Alan Knapp1, Charles J.W. Carroll2, Elsie M Denton2, Kimberly J. La Pierre3, Kevin R. Wilcox4, Scott L Collins5 and Melinda Dianne Smith1, (1)Colorado State University, Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Fort Collins, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Integrative Biology, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)University of Wyoming, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Laramie, WY, United States, (5)Department of Biology, MSC03-2020, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, United States
 
Sensitivity of Three Vegetation Indices to Cimate and Soil moisture at a Tallgrass Prairie Site (19803)
Rajen Bajgain1, Xiangming Xiao2, Pradeep Wagle3 and Jeffrey B Basara1, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, School of Biological Sciences, Norman, United States, (3)Oklahoma and Central Plains Agricultural Research Center, USDA Agricultural Research Service, EI Reno, United States
 
Ecophysiological responses of three dominant species to experimental drought on the Colorado Plateau (22943)
Michael Duniway, USGS, Baltimore, United States, David L Hoover, USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States and Jayne Belnap, US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Cayonlands Research Station, Moab, UT, United States
 
Drought sensitivities of dominant plant functional types in the Colorado Plateau (18684)
David L Hoover1, Michael Duniway2 and Jayne Belnap1, (1)US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Cayonlands Research Station, Moab, UT, United States, (2)US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, United States
 
CARBON POOLS IN A TEMPERATE HEATHLAND RESIST CHANGES IN A FUTURE CLIMATE (21898)
Per Ambus1, Sabine Reinsch2, Pia L Nielsen3, Anders Michelsen4, Inger K Schmidt3 and Teis Nørgaard Mikkelsen1, (1)Technical University of Denmark, Chemical Engineering, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (2)Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Bangor, United Kingdom, (3)Copenhagen University, Department of Geoscience and Natural Resource Management, Copenhagen, Denmark, (4)Copenhagen University, Department of Biology, Copenhagen, Denmark
 
Preliminary vegetation index products from Suomi NPP VIIRS illuminate the California drought (28236)
Jennifer L Dungan1, Sangram Ganguly2, Forrest S Melton3, John W Shupe4 and Ramakrishna R Nemani3, (1)NASA Ames Research Center (retired), Moffett Field, United States, (2)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute Moffett Field, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (4)California State University Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, United States
 
Impacts of drought on regional carbon uptake dynamics in the Southwestern US, using the New Mexico Elevation Gradient of flux towers and the Temperature-Greenness model. (29580)
Daniel J Krofcheck1, Christopher Lippitt1 and Marcy E Litvak2, (1)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)University of New Mexico, Department of Biology, Albuquerque, United States
 
Drought and ice plant invasion in Bodega Bay, California (27896)
Alexandra Weill, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
 
Different responses to the 2011 drought between native- and exotic-dominated experimental communities in Texas (29754)
Brian J. Wilsey, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States, Wayne Polley, USDA-ARS, Grassland, Soil & Water Research Laboratory, Temple, TX, United States and Pedram P. Daneshgar, Monmouth University, Biology, West Long Branch, NJ, United States
 
Changing Summer Precipitation Pattern Alters Microbial Community Response to Fall Wet-up in a Mediterranean Soil (29095)
Romain L Barnard, INRA, Dijon, France, Catherine A Osborne, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia and Mary K Firestone, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Effects of altered soil moisture on respiratory quotient in the Edwards Plateau (30077)
Mitchell Adam Sellers, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States, Christine Hawkes, University of Texas at Austin, Integrative Biology, Austin, TX, United States and Dan Breecker, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Austin, United States
 
Drought Impact on Water – Carbon Interaction in Soil: A Stable Isotopic Approach (11462)
Jobin Joseph, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Freiberg, Germany, Markus Weiler, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Chair of Hydrology, Freiburg, Germany and Arthur Gessler, WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Forest Growth and Climate, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
 
The Impact of Elevated CO2 on Plant Production Responses to Drought: A Model-Data Comparison at Four US FACE Sites. (18611)
Anthony P Walker, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Martin Gerard De Kauwe, University of Bristol, School of Biological Sciences, Bristol, United Kingdom, Lynn Fenstermaker, Desert Research Institute, Las Vegas, NV, United States, Belinda Elizabeth Medlyn, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, Jack A Morgan, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Rangeland Resources Research Unit, CO, United States, Ram Oren, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, United States, Soenke Zaehle, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, Richard J. Norby, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and FACE-MDS team
 
Relationships Between Climate variability (water availability) and Ecosystem Productivity: A Satellite Based Study (15926)
Xianli Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Wen Liu, Hunan Normal University, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Hunan, China