B53J:
Climatic Controls on Vegetation Dynamics in Tropical Forests II
Session ID#: 8513
Session Description:
Tropical forests (Amazon, Insular SE Asia, and African Congo) provide critical ecosystem services and play a key role in storing terrestrial carbon stock and harboring biodiversity. However, the key questions as to how structure and function of tropical forests are controlled by climate remain largely to be explored, leaving the predictions of tropical forests under climate change highly uncertain. Our session broadly draws recent studies and advances from ground-based observations, near-surface and satellite remote sensing, and earth system modeling to explore the underling climatic controls on tropical vegetation dynamics, ranging from various temporal scales (hourly, daily, seasonal, inter-annual and decadal scales). We especially welcome contributions that integrate observation and modeling work together to improve the predictive ability. Our session also aims to identify some future key research directions to further the understanding of global tropical forests response to climate change.
Primary Convener: Jin Wu, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Conveners: Scott R Saleska, University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, Xi Yang, Brown University, Providence, United States and Kaiyu Guan, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
Chairs: Jin Wu, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Scott R Saleska, University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, Benjamin R Lintner, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States and Xi Yang, Brown University, Providence, United States
OSPA Liaison: Xi Yang, Brown University, Providence, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Paul R Moorcroft, Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Naomi Marcil Levine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Marcos Longo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, Thomas Powell, Harvard University, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, United States, Ke Zhang, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States and Andes Amazon Initiative
Chris Doughty, Oxford University, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom
Scott R Saleska, University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, Bradley O Christoffersen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Marcos Longo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia, Luciana F Alves, IAPAR Agronomic Institute of Brazil, Campinas, Brazil, Kenia T Wiedemann, Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, Scott C Stark, Michigan State University, Department of Forestry, East Lansing, MI, United States, Matthew Hayek, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, Jin Wu, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, J William Munger, Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Patrick Meir, Australian National University, Research School of Biology, Canberra, Australia, Raimundo Cosme Oliveira Junior, EMBRAPA Brazilian Agricultural Research Corportation, Campinas, Brazil, Rodrigo da Silva, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Santarem, Brazil and Plinio Barbosa de Camargo, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, United States
James Tremper Randerson, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, Abigail L. S. Swann, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science and Department of Biology, Seattle, United States, Charles D Koven, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Forrest M. Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Yang Chen, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States
William Hoffmann1, Augusto C Franco2, M. Haridasan3, Erika Geiger1 and Sybil G. Gotsch4, (1)North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States, (2)University of Brasilia, Department of Botany, DF - Brasília, Brazil, (3)Universidade de Brasilia, Ecology, Brasilia, Brazil, (4)Franklin and Marshall College, Biology, Lancaster, PA, United States
Alfredo R Huete1, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe2, Jin Wu3, Rakhesh Devadas4, Kaiyu Guan5, Yi Liu6, Piyachat Ratana7, Qingsong Sun8, Crystal Schaaf8 and Scott R Saleska9, (1)University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Science, Ultimo, NSW, Australia, (2)University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia, (3)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, Australia, (5)Stanford University, Stanford, United States, (6)University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (7)University of Technology Sydney, Plant Functional Biology and Climate Change, Ultimo, Australia, (8)University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (9)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States
James R Kellner1, KC Cushman1, Joseph Alexander Kendrick2, Carlos Edibaldo Silva3, Sandra M Wiseman1 and Xi Yang1, (1)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (2)Brown University, Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Providence, RI, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States
David Schimel, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
