B11G:
Understanding Present and Future Amazonian Rainforests I Posters

Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
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

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
Lisa Patrick Bentley1, Alexander Shenkin2, Brian Enquist3 and Yadvinder Malhi1, (1)University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (3)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Tree Diametric Increment and Litterfall Production in an Eastern Amazonian Forest: the Role of Functional Groups
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, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Implication of Forest-Savanna Dynamics on Biomass and Carbon Stock: Effectiveness of an Amazonian Ecological Station
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
Jin Wu1, Kaiyu Guan2, Loren Albert1, Matthew Hayek3, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe4, Neill Prohaska1, Kenia T Wiedemann3, Suelen F Marostica5, Scott C Stark6, Marielle Smith1, Rodrigo da Silva7, Dennis G Dye8, Bruce W Nelson9, Alfredo R Huete10 and Scott R Saleska1, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (3)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Australia, (5)National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil, (6)Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, (7)Federal University of Western Para, Santarem, Brazil, (8)USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (9)INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil, (10)University of Technology Sydney, Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change, Ultimo, Australia
 
Seasonality of Central Amazon Forest Leaf Flush Using Tower-Mounted RGB Camera
Bruce W Nelson1, Julia V Tavares1, Jin Wu2, Dalton M Valeriano3, Aline P Lopes1, Suelen F Marostica1, Giordane Martins1, Neill Prohaska2, Loren Albert2, Alessandro C De Araujo4, Antonio O Manzi1, Scott R Saleska2 and Alfredo R Huete5, (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, SP, Brazil, (4)Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), Belem, PA, Brazil, (5)University of Technology Sydney, Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change, Ultimo, 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?
Loren Albert1, Jin Wu1, Neill Prohaska1, Plinio Barbosa de Camargo2, Raimundo Cosme Jr.3, Travis E Huxman4 and Scott R Saleska1, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, United States, (3)EMBRAPA Brazilian Agricultural Research Corportation, Campinas, Brazil, (4)University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
 
For everything there is a season, including Amazonian tropical forests
Scott R Saleska1, Jin Wu1, Bruce W Nelson2, Julia V Tavares3, Loren Albert1, Neill Prohaska1, Kaiyu Guan4, Rodrigo da Silva5, Alessandro C De Araujo6, Antonio Donato Nobre2, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe7 and Alfredo R Huete8, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil, (3)National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil, (4)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (5)Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Santarem, Brazil, (6)EMBRAPA Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation- EMBRAPA, Embrapa Amazonia Oriental, Belem, Brazil, (7)University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Australia, (8)University of Technology Sydney, Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change, Ultimo, Australia
 
Spatial Patterns of Carbon Exchange Seasonality in Amazonian Forest
Liang Xu1, Sassan S Saatchi1,2, Yan Yang1,3, Ranga Myneni3, Christian Frankenberg2 and Diya Chowdhury1, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
 
Satellite lidar data do not show static greenness in wet equatorial Amazonian rainforests
Sungho CHOI, Taejin Park, Jian Bi, Yuri Knyazikhin and Ranga B Myneni, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
 
CONJOINT SEASONAL AND INTRASEASONAL DYNAMICS OF PRECIPITATION AND NDVI OVER THE AMAZON AND THE CONGO RAINFORESTS
Leidy Johanna Yepes and German Poveda, National University of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
 
Hydrogeochemistry of the Overland Flow in Soil at Agroecosystems in Eastern Amazon
Cristiane Formigosa Gadelha da Costa, CENA Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, Piracicaba, Brazil, Ricardo O 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
Jennifer A. Holm1, Jeffrey Q Chambers2, William Collins1 and Niro Higuchi3, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Departamento de Silvicultura Tropical, Manejo Florestal, Manaus AM, Brazil
 
Simulating drought impacts on energy balance in an Amazonian rainforest
Hewlley A Imbuzeiro1, Marcos Heil Costa1, David Galbraith2, Bradley O Christoffersen3, Thomas Powell4, Anna B Harper5, Naomi Marcil Levine6, Lucy Rowland7, Paul R Moorcroft8, Victor Hugo Benezoli1, Patrick Meir7, Antonio Lola da Costa9, Paulo M Brando10, Yadvinder Malhi11, Scott R Saleska12 and Mathew Dr Williams13, (1)UFV Federal University of Vicosa, Vicosa, Brazil, (2)University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (3)University of Arizona, of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)Harvard University, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom, (6)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (8)Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA, United States, (9)UFPA Federal University of Para, Pará, Brazil, (10)Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States, (11)University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, (12)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (13)School GeoSciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
 
Linking Tropical Forest Function to Hydraulic Traits in a Size-Structured and Trait-Based Model
Bradley O Christoffersen1, Emanuel Ulrich Gloor2, Sophie Fauset2, Nikos Fyllas3, David Galbraith4, Tim R. Baker2, Lucy Rowland1, Rosie Fisher5, Oliver Binks1, Maurizio Mencuccini1,6, Yadvinder Malhi7, Clément Stahl8, Fabien Hubert Wagner9, Damien Bonal10, Antonio Lola da Costa11, Leandro Ferreira12 and Patrick Meir1,13, (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)University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)ICREA at CREAF, Barcelona, Spain, (7)University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, (8)Joint Research Unit Ecology of Guiana Forests (UMR EcoFoG), Kourou, French Guiana, (9)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (10)INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR EEF 1137, Paris Cedex 07, France, (11)UFPA Federal University of Para, Pará, Brazil, (12)Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Belem, Brazil, (13)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
Anna B Harper1,2, Pierre Friedlingstein3, Stephen Sitch3, Peter Michael Cox3, Chris Jones2, Almut Arneth4, Athanasios Arvanitis4, Philippe Ciais5, Christian Frankenberg6, Atul K Jain7, Etsushi Kato8, Sam Levis9, Nicholas Parazoo6, Benjamin Poulter10, Benjamin David Stocker11, Andy Wiltshire2 and Soenke Zaehle12, (1)University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom, (2)Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom, (3)University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, (4)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, (5)CEA Saclay DSM / LSCE, Gif sur Yvette, France, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (7)University of Illinois at Urbana, Urbana, IL, United States, (8)NIES National Institute of Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan, (9)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (10)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (11)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (12)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
 
The Sensitivity of Wet and Dry Tropical Forests to Climate Change in Bolivia
Ronald W A Hutjes1, Christian Seiler1,2, Bart Kruijt3 and Thomas Hickler4, (1)Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, (2)University of Victoria, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (3)Alterra, Wageningen, 6700, Netherlands, (4)Senckenberg Research Institute, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt, Germany
 
Effects of Amazon Drought on Eastern Pacific SST
Leah A Lindsey and David A Randall, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States
 
Assessing the Future Climate Change in Amazon Basin as Derived from the PRECIS Regional Climate Modeling System
Lincoln Muniz Alves1, Jose A Marengo1 and Rong Fu2, (1)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (2)Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
 
A Space-Time Unified Data Set of General Circulation Model Outputs for Land Surface Modeling over Amazonia
Sanaz Moghim1, Shawna L McKnight1, Ke Zhang2, Ardeshir M Ebtehaj1, Ryan G Knox3, Rafael L Bras4, Paul R Moorcroft5 and Jingfeng Wang6, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, United States, (5)Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA, United States, (6)GA Ins of Tech-Civil & Env Eng, Atlanta, GA, United States
 
Effects of CO2 Physiological Forcing on Amazon Climate
Kate Halladay, Peter Good, Gillian Kay and Richard Betts, Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom
 
Light in Tropical Forest Models: What Detail Matters?
Alexander Shenkin, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Lisa Patrick Bentley, University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, Gregory Paul Asner, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States and Yadvinder Malhi, Oxford University, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
Amazon Rainforests May Be More Resilient to Atmospheric Warming Than We Thought: A Cross-Site Analysis of Eddy Flux Data from Natural Forests and an Artificially Warmed Forest
Marielle Smith1, Tyeen Taylor2, Rafael Rosolem3, Joost L M Van Haren1, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe4, Jin Wu1, Travis E Huxman5 and Scott R Saleska1, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, (3)University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, (4)University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Australia, (5)University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
 
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.
Wilma Jans1, Steel Vasconcelos2, Edgard S Tribuzy3, Cristina Felsemburgh3, Melem Eliane2, Lucy Rowland4, Antonio 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)Alterra, Wageningen, 6700, Netherlands
 
Biomass Change of the Landless Peasants' Settlements in Lower Amazon
Kanae Ishimaru, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 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
Celso von Randow1, Ana Paula Dutra Aguiar1, Kirsten Thonicke2, Hans Verbeeck3, Matthieu Guimberteau4, Fanny Langerwisch2, Anja Rammig2, David Galbraith5, Jelena Maksic1 and Bart Kruijt6, (1)Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, São José dos Campos, Brazil, (2)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, (3)Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, (4)Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat: expérimentations et approches numériques (LOCEAN), Paris, France, (5)University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (6)Alterra, Wageningen, 6700, Netherlands
 
Public policies and communication affecting forest cover in the Amazon
Elza Kawakami Savaget1,2, Mateus Batistella1 and Ana Paula Dutra Aguiar3, (1)EMBRAPA Satellite Monitoring, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Campinas, Brazil, (2)Center for Environmental Studies and Researche, Campinas, Brazil, (3)National Institute for Space Research, Earth System Science Center (CCST), São Jose dos Campos, Brazil
 
New Reasons to Preserve the Amazon Rainforest
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
Bart Kruijt1,2, Celso von Randow2, Peter Good3, Gillian Kay3, Jan A Elbers4, Gilvan Sampaio de Oliveira2, Antoon Meesters5 and Carlos Afonso Nobre6, (1)Alterra, Wageningen, 6700, 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)CEMADEN, Cachoeira Paulist, Brazil
 
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