GC21H:
Drought and Its Impacts on Terrestrial Ecosystems: Current Understanding and Future Prospects I

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Melinda Smith, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Alan Knapp, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Conveners:  Melinda Smith, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Co-conveners:  Osvaldo E Sala, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States, Richard Phillips, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States and Alan Knapp, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Scott L Collins, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Welcoming Remarks
8:02 AM
GC21H-01
 
How Does Drought Change With Climate Change
Kevin E Trenberth, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
8:17 AM
GC21H-02
 
Consistent Predictions of Future Forest Mortality
Nathan G McDowell, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
8:32 AM
GC21H-03
 
Drought and tree mortality in tropical rainforest: understanding and differentiating functional responses
Patrick Meir1,2, Lucy Rowland3, Antonio Lola da Costa4, Maurizio Mencuccini5, Alex Oliveira4, Oliver Binks3, Bradley O Christoffersen1, Melem Eliane6, Steel Vasconcelos6,7, Bart Kruijt8 and Leandro Ferreira9, (1)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom, (2)Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, (3)University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (4)UFPA Federal University of Para, Pará, Brazil, (5)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (6)EMBRAPA Brazilian Agricultural Research Corportation, Campinas, Brazil, (7)EMBRAPA Brazilian Agricultural Research Corportation, Belem, Brazil, (8)Alterra, Wageningen, 6700, Netherlands, (9)Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belem, Brazil
8:47 AM
GC21H-04
 
HISTORICAL CONTINGENCIES IN MICROBIAL RESPONSES TO DROUGHT
Christine Hawkes1, Bonnie Waring1,2, Jennifer Rocca1,3, Stephanie Kivlin1, Hannah Giauque1 and Colin Averill1, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Integrative Biology, Austin, TX, United States, (2)University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
9:02 AM
GC21H-05
 
Stability of Grassland Communities to Altered Precipitation: A Meta-Analysis
Yiqi Luo1, Zheng Shi1, Scott L Collins2, Alan Knapp3, William Pockman2 and Melinda Smith3, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (2)University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
9:17 AM
GC21H-06
 
Sensitivity of Carbon and Water Fluxes to Droughts across the Conterminous United States
Hanqin Tian1,2 and Jia Yang2, (1)Auburn University at Montgomery, Auburn, AL, United States, (2)Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States
9:32 AM
GC21H-07
 
Drought-Net: An international network to assess terrestrial ecosystem sensitivity to drought
Melinda Smith, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Richard Phillips, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States and Osvaldo E Sala, Arizona State University, School of Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ, United States
9:47 AM
 
Concluding Remarks
9:50 AM
 
Discussion
 
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