B43K:
Novel Approaches for Moving Beyond Plant Functional Types and Considering Future Vegetation Distributions II


Session ID#: 7498

Session Description:
Earth's surface ecompasses a diverse mosaic of climates, all of which can be expected to change in the near future. Ecosystem responses to these shifts are crucial, both as an impact of and feedback to climate change, as well as in response to other factors such as land-use, changed nutrients, and elevated CO2. In some cases, ecosystems will be able to move geographically to accomodate these shifts, while in other cases will change in potentially unexpected ways to accommodate emerging novel climates. How should models--both conceptual and numerical--predict such changes in ecosystem distributions and properties? This session focuses on vegetation dynamics as the set of interactions that occur at spatial scales larger than leaves and timescales longer than annual, including: succession, geographic distribution changes, canopy structural dynamics, dispersal, competition, mortality, disturbance, and trait-based / adaptive dynamics.
Primary Convener:  Abigail L. S. Swann, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Department of Biology, Seattle, WA, United States
Conveners:  Ryan Pavlick, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., United States, Yueyang Jiang, Oregon State University, Forest Ecosystems & Society, Corvallis, OR, United States and Marie Dury, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
Chairs:  Ryan Pavlick, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., United States, Marie Dury, Université de Liège, Liege, Belgium and Yueyang Jiang, Oregon State University, Forest Ecosystems & Society, Corvallis, OR, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Ryan Pavlick, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • IGBP: International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme -
Index Terms:

0429 Climate dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Addressing spatial scales and new mechanisms in climate impact ecosystem modeling (Invited) (58562)
Benjamin Poulter1, Emilie Joetzjer2, Katie Renwick2, Gilbert Ogunkoya2 and Kristen Emmett2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States
Role of competition in vegetation change: evolutionarily stable strategy analysis as a means for predicting change in vegetation distributions (Invited) (71679)
Caroline Farrior, National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, Knoxville, TN, United States
Future of Plant Functional Types in Terrestrial Biosphere Models (Invited) (60693)
Stan D Wullschleger1, Eugenie Susanne Euskirchen2, Colleen M. Iversen3, Alistair Rogers4 and Dr. Shawn Serbin, BA, MS, PhD4, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States, (4)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Upton, United States
The TRY Plant Trait Database - a Tool to Characterize Plant Responses to Global Changes (78929)
Jens Kattge, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
A global remote sensing mission to detect and predict plant functional biodiversity change (Invited) (76653)
Jeannine Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Saint Paul, MN, United States, Walter Jetz, Yale University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, New Haven, United States, Ryan Pavlick, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C., United States, David Schimel, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, John Arthur Gamon, University of Nebraska Lincoln, School of Natural Resources, Lincoln, United States, Sarah E Hobbie, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, St. Paul, MN, United States, Philip A Townsend, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, United States and NCEAS Biodiversity from Space Working Group; Cedar Creek Biodiversity Team
Potential Dominant Plant Functional Type and Terrestrial Carbon Redistribution in Northern North America from Future Climate Change (82624)
Steve Flanagan1, George C Hurtt2, Justin Fisk3, Ritvik Sahajpal4, Maosheng Zhao1 and Katelyn A Dolan4, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (4)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
From Dynamic Global Vegetation Modelling to Real-World regional and local Application (Invited) (61766)
Joerg Steinkamp1,2, Matthew Forrest3, Katharina Kamm4, Marion Leiblein-Wild3, Adrian Pachzelt3, Christian Werner3 and Thomas Hickler3,5, (1)BiK-F, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, (2)Senckenberg, Frankfurt, Germany, (3)Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt/Main, Germany, (4)Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, (5)Institute of Physical Geography, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Inclusion of Additional Plant Species and Trait Information in Dynamic Vegetation Modeling of Arctic Tundra and Boreal Forest Ecosystem (Invited) (62159)
Eugenie Susanne Euskirchen1, Vijay Patil2, Jennifer Roach2, Brad Griffith2,3 and Anthony David McGuire4, (1)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, United States, (2)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit, Fairbanks, United States, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States

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