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
Spatio-Temporal Drought Analysis on Example of the Central European Gridded Dataset
Petr Stepanek1,2, Miroslav Trnka3,4, Pavel Zahradníček2,4, Daniela Semerádová3,4 and Petr Hlavinka3,4, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, Brno, Czech Republic, (3)Mendel University, Department of Agrosystems and Bioclimatology, Brno, Czech Republic, (4)Global Change Research Centre AS CR, v. v. i., Brno, Czech Republic
The extreme drought episode of August 2011-May 2012: A scenario for future droughts in Central Europe?
Pavel Zahradníček1,2, Miroslav Trnka1,3, Rudolf Brázdil1,4, Martin Mozny2, Petr Stepanek1,2, Petr Hlavinka1,3, Antonín Malý2 and Martin Dubrovsky5, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, Brno, Czech Republic, (3)Mendel University, Department of Agrosystems and Bioclimatology, Brno, Czech Republic, (4)Masaryk University, Institute of Geography, Brno, Czech Republic, (5)Institute of Atmospheric Physics ACSR, Praha 4, Czech Republic
Effects of an Experimental Drought on Balsam Fir Xylogenesis in the Eastern Canada Boreal Forest.
Loïc D'Orangeville1, Benoît Côté1, Daniel Houle2 and Hubert Morin3, (1)McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (2)Quebec Ministry of Natural Resources MRN, Forest Research, Quebec City, QC, Canada, (3)University of Quebec at Chicoutimi UQAC, Chicoutimi, QC, Canada
In Forests Globally, Large Trees Suffer Most during Drought
Amy C Bennett, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, Nathan G McDowell, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Craig D Allen, USGS Jemez Mountains Field Station, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Kristina J Anderson-Teixeira, Smithsonian Institution, Front Royal, VA, United States
A novel approach for diagnosing isohydric and anisohydric plant water use during drought
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, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Biology, Bloomington, IN, United States, Danilo Dragoni, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Geography, Bloomington, IN, United States and Richard Phillips, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States
Northern Forest DroughtNet: A New Framework to Understand Impacts of Precipitation Change on the Northern Forest Ecosystem
Heidi Asbjornsen1, Lindsey Rustad2, Pamela H Templer3, Katie Jennings1, Richard Phillips4 and Melinda 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, Boston, MA, United States, (4)Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Impact of Drought and Precipitation Seasonality on Net Primary Production and Plant Community Composition Across a Grassland Ecotone in New Mexico
Scott L Collins1, Michell L Thomey1, Renee F. Brown2, Nate Gehres1, Matthew D Petrie2, Kristin Vanderbilt1 and William Pockman3, (1)University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Differential Sensitivity to Drought in Six Central U.S. Grasslands
Alan Knapp1, Charles J.W. Carroll1, Elsie M Denton1, Kimberly J. La Pierre2, Kevin R. Wilcox1, Scott L Collins3 and Melinda Smith1, (1)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Integrative Biology, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
CARBON POOLS IN A TEMPERATE HEATHLAND RESIST CHANGES IN A FUTURE CLIMATE
Per Ambus1, Sabine Reinsch2, Pia L Nielsen3, Anders Michelsen4, Inger K Schmidt3 and Teis N Mikkelsen5, (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, (5)Technical University of Denmark, Chemical Engineering, Roskilde, Denmark
Preliminary vegetation index products from Suomi NPP VIIRS illuminate the California drought
Jennifer L Dungan1, Sangram Ganguly2, Forrest S Melton3, John W Shupe3 and Ramakrishna R Nemani1, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute Moffett Field, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)California State University Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, United States
Different responses to the 2011 drought between native- and exotic-dominated experimental communities in Texas
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
Effects of altered soil moisture on respiratory quotient in the Edwards Plateau
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, Austin, TX, United States
Drought Impact on Water – Carbon Interaction in Soil: A Stable Isotopic Approach
Jobin Joseph, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Freiberg, Germany, Markus Weiler, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, Chair of Hydrology, Freiberg, 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.
Anthony P Walker1, Martin G De Kauwe2, Lynn Fenstermaker3, Belinda Elizabeth Medlyn2, Jack A Morgan4, Ram Oren5, Soenke Zaehle6 and Richard J Norby7, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, (3)Desert Research Institute, Las Vegas, NV, United States, (4)United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Rangeland Resources Research Unit, CO, United States, (5)Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, (6)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, (7)Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States