Chairs: David Galbraith, University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, Marcos Heil Costa, UFV, Vicosa, Brazil, Bart Kruijt, Alterra, Wageningen, 6700, Netherlands and Paul R Moorcroft, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Conveners: David Galbraith, University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
Co-conveners: Marcos Heil Costa, UFV Federal University of Vicosa, Vicosa, Brazil, Bart Kruijt, Alterra, Wageningen, 6700, Netherlands and Paul R Moorcroft, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA, United States
OSPA Liaisons: David Galbraith, University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom
8:00 AM
Amazon Vegetation Response to Anomalously Dry and Wet Years 2010 and 2011 derived from Lower Troposphere Greenhouse Gas Balances
Emanuel Ulrich Gloor1, Luciana Gatti2, John B Miller3, Chris Doughty4, Yadvinder Malhi5, Luana S Basso2, Lucas G Domingues2, Saulo R Freitas6, Liana O Anderson6, Oliver L. Phillips1 and Jon Lloyd7, (1)University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom, (2)IPEN Nuclear Energy Research Institute, Sao Paulo, Brazil, (3)NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (5)Oxford University, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom, (6)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (7)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
8:15 AM
Will modeling demographic differences in xylem vulnerability and stomatal closure in tropical trees improve drought response predictions of tropical forests?
Thomas Powell, Harvard University, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Antonio Lola da Costa, UFPA Federal University of Para, Pará, Brazil, Patrick Meir, University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Scott R Saleska, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States and Paul R Moorcroft, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA, United States
8:45 AM
The Influence of Atmospheric CO2 Concentration and Climate Variability on Amazon Tropical Forest
Andrea D de Almeida Castanho1,2, David Galbraith3, Ke Zhang4,5, Michael Thomas Coe2, Marcos Heil Costa6 and Paul R Moorcroft5, (1)UFC Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil, (2)The Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States, (3)University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (4)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (5)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (6)UFV Federal University of Vicosa, Vicosa, Brazil
9:15 AM
Simulating Amazon forest carbon cycling using an individual- and trait-based model.
Sophie Fauset1, Nikolaos Fyllas2, David Galbraith3, Bradley O Christoffersen4, Tim R. Baker1, Michelle O. Johnson1, Yadvinder Malhi5, Oliver L. Phillips1, Jon Lloyd6 and Emanuel Ulrich Gloor1, (1)University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom, (2)University of Athens, Terrestrial Ecology Group, Athens, Greece, (3)University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (4)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom, (5)University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, (6)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
9:30 AM
New land use scenarios for the Brazilian Amazonia: how to reach a sustainable future?
Ana Paula Dutra Aguiar1, Ima Vieira2, Peter Toledo1, Roberto Araujo1, Andrea Coelho3, Patricia Pinho4, Talita Assis1, Eloi Lennon Dalla-Nora1, Elza Kawakami Savaget5 and Mateus Batistella6, (1)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Earth System Science Center, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (2)Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil, (3)IIDESP - Instituto de Desenvolvimento Econômico, Social e Ambiental do Pará, Belém, Brazil, (4)University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil, (5)EMBRAPA Satellite Monitoring, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Campinas, Brazil, (6)EMBRAPA Satellite Monitoring, Campinas, Brazil
