H33M:
The Hydrology–Vegetation–Climate Nexus: Identifying Process Interactions and Environmental Shifts in Mountain Catchments II


Session ID#: 10637

Session Description:
The hydrology‒vegetation‒climate nexus in mountain environments presents an important indicator of global environmental change. However, observations in these regions remain limited and typically confined to non-vegetated areas.  A need therefore exists to (1) improve knowledge of ecohydrological and hydroclimatological baseline conditions, (2) identify how perturbations in vegetation and climate processes interact with hydrology, (3) discriminate between short-term (e.g., multi-year) variability and long-term (e.g., multi-decadal) shifts, and (4) evaluate how vegetation, water and energy processes co-evolve to determine variability and system change.  We invite contributions investigating the response of hydrologic fluxes (e.g., precipitation, evapotranspiration, streamflow) and storages (e.g., soil moisture, snowpack) to short- or long-term changes in vegetation (e.g., forest disturbances, land use change) and climate (e.g., change and natural variability, energy availability), and how hydrologic change consequently impacts local vegetation in mountainous catchments.  We welcome studies that employ mechanistic modeling, field observations, and/or remote sensing at plot to catchment scales.
Primary Convener:  Mark S Raleigh, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States
Convener:  Keith N Musselman, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States
Chairs:  Mark S Raleigh, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States and Keith N Musselman, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Keith N Musselman, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • C - Cryosphere
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Giacomo Bertoldi1, Mariapina Castelli2, Caludia Notarnicola3, Johannes Brenner1, Felix Greifeneder4, Georg Niedrist1,5 and Ulrike Tappeiner1,5, (1)EURAC, Institute for Alpine Environment, Bolzano, Italy, (2)Eurac research, Institute for Earth Observation, Bolzano, Italy, (3)European Academy of Bolzano, EURAC, Institute for Earth Observation, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy, (4)EURAC, Institute for Earth Observation, Bolzano, Italy, (5)University of Innsbruck, Institute of Ecology, Innsbruck, Austria
Anne E. Kelly, The Nature Conservancy, Anchorage, AK, United States, Michael Duniway, US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, United States, Mark E Miller, National Park Service, Southeast Utah Group, Moab, UT, United States, Robert H Webb, USGS Arizona Water Science Center, Tucson, AZ, United States and Jayne Belnap, US Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Cayonlands Research Station, Moab, UT, United States
Juan Ignacio López1, Enrique Morán-Tejeda1, Jose M Garcia-Ruiz1, Santiago Beguería2 and Sergio M Vicente-Serrano1, (1)IPE-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain, (2)Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Estación Experimental de Aula Dei, Zaragoza, Spain
Lauren Foster, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States, Reed M Maxwell, Colorado School of Mines, Hydrologic Science and Engineering Program and Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, Lindsay A Bearup, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, United States, Noah P Molotch, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, United States and Paul D Brooks, University of Utah, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Adrian Adam Harpold, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States
Roger C Bales1, Michael Goulden2, Carolyn T Hunsaker3, Martha H Conklin4, Peter C Hartsough5, Toby T O'Geen5, Jan W Hopmans6 and Mohammad Safeeq7, (1)University of California Merced, Sierra Nevada Research Institute, Merced, CA, United States, (2)University of California Irvine, Irvine, United States, (3)USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States, (4)University of California Merced, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Merced, United States, (5)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (6)Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI, United States, (7)Univ California, Merced, United States
Lara M Kueppers, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, United States; University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, Noah P Molotch, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, United States, Leah Meromy, University of Colorado at Boulder, Geography / INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Andrew B Moyes, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Erin E Conlisk, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Cristina Castanha, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States
Doerthe Tetzlaff1, James M Buttle2, Sean Kevin Carey3, Hjalmar Laudon4, Jeffrey McDonnell5, Jim P McNamara6, Marjolein Van Huijgevoort7, Christopher Spence8 and Chris Soulsby7, (1)University of Aberdeen, Northern Rivers Institute, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, (2)Trent University, Peterborough, ON, Canada, (3)McMaster University, School of Earth, Environment and Society, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (4)SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Umeå, Umeå, Sweden, (5)University of Saskatchewan, School of Environment and Sustainability, Global Institute for Water Security, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, (6)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (7)University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, (8)Environment Canada Saskatoon, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

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