H24B:
Ecohydrology of Disturbed Environments II


Session ID#: 10627

Session Description:
Climate and land-use impacts on disturbance regimes are driving major changes in linked ecologic-hydrologic systems from regional to global scales. Landscape disturbance events include vegetation dieback, wildfire, invasive species encroachment, extreme hydrometeorology, and land-use change.  This session focuses on ecohydrological processes and shifts related to disturbed landscapes, including dieback, encroachment, vegetation type conversion, and impaired vegetation recovery.  Research topics include (but are not limited to): 1) effects on hydrologic cycling and water storage, 2) alterations to biogeochemical cycles, and 3) recovery timescales and trajectories of geomorphic and ecohydrologic processes.  We invite work reaching across spatial scales from plot to global in scope and applied techniques from laboratory, field, and numerical modeling investigations.
Primary Convener:  Wendy M Robertson, Central Michigan University, Institute for Great Lakes Research - Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Mount Pleasant, MI, United States
Conveners:  Brian A Ebel, USGS, Earth System Processes Division, Lakewood, CO, United States and Holly R Barnard, University of Colorado Boulder, Geography, Boulder, United States
Chairs:  Wendy M Robertson, Central Michigan University, Institute for Great Lakes Research - Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Mount Pleasant, MI, United States and Holly R Barnard, University of Colorado Boulder, Geography, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Brian A Ebel, USGS, Earth System Processes Division, Lakewood, CO, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1836 Hydrological cycles and budgets [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Using Distributed, Integrated Hydrological Models to Simulate Water Balance Changes at the Hillslope and Catchment Scale Due to Fire Disturbances (84674)
Ethan Coon1, Adam Lee Atchley2, Laura Trader3, Richard Stephen Middleton2, Scott L Painter4 and Evgeny Kikinzon2, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Bandelier National Monument, National Park Service, Los Alamos, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Simulating the Stream Temperature Response to Hydrologic and Land Use Alterations (61584)
John R Yearsley1, Ning Sun2, Marisa Baptiste3 and Bart Nijssen1, (1)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)Applied Physics Laboratory University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)University of Washington, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States
Response of tree cover to interannual rainfall variability: the balance of direct and indirect effects (73142)
Kailiang Yu, Paolo D'Odorico, Michael Saha and Zak Ratajczak, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Invasive non-native trees in Hawaiian forests could increase negative impacts of climate change on water resources (62324)
Thomas W Giambelluca1, Ryan G Mudd2, Maoyi Huang3, Yoshiyuki Miyazawa2, Michael Nullet2, John K DeLay4, Gregory Paul Asner5, Roberta Martin6, Rebecca Ostertag7 and Creighton McMaster Litton8, (1)University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Department of Geography and Environment, Honolulu, United States, (2)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Geography, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Richland, WA, United States, (4)University of Hawaii - Honolulu Community College, Honolulu, United States, (5)Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States, (6)Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, CA, United States, (7)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (8)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Natural Resources and Environmental Management, Honolulu, HI, United States
Influence of Forest Disturbance on Hydrologic Extremes in the Colorado River Basin (86053)
Katrina E Bennett1, Richard Stephen Middleton2, Nathan G McDowell2, Chonggang Xu2 and Cathy Jean Wilson2, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Hydrologic Response to Widespread Land Cover Change Simulated from the Hillslope through the Regional Scale (79697)
Lindsay A Bearup1, Reed M Maxwell2, Nick Engdahl3 and Colin A Penn2,4, (1)Colorado School of Mines, Golden, United States, (2)Colorado School of Mines, Hydrologic Science and Engineering Program and Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, (3)Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States, (4)USGS Colorado Water Science Center Lakewood, Lakewood, CO, United States
Modeling compensatory responses of ecosystem-scale water fluxes in forests affected by pine and spruce beetle mortality (84588)
David Millar, University of Wyoming, Botany, Laramie, WY, United States, Brent E Ewers, University of Wyoming, Botany, Laramie, United States, Scott D Peckham, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, David Scott Mackay, University at Buffalo, Geography, Buffalo, NY, United States, John M Frank, U.S. Forest Service, Fort Collins, United States, William J Massman, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States and David E Reed, Michigan State University, Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, MI, United States

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