B22C:
Global Forest Dynamics and Interactions with a Changing Climate I


Session ID#: 8620

Session Description:
Forests are an influential component of the global carbon cycle and play an important role in Earth’s climate system. Climate change is altering forest dynamics, driving biogeochemical and biophysical feedbacks to the climate system. This session will focus on impacts of climate change on forests globally and consequent climate feedbacks. In particular, it will address (1) mechanisms through which climate change is impacting forest dynamics—including physiological responses, community dynamics, and biogeochemical cycling; (2) interactive effects of disturbance and climate change on forest dynamics; and (3) implications of forest-climate feedbacks that could buffer or accelerate change.
Primary Convener:  Kristina J Anderson-Teixeira, Smithsonian Institution, Front Royal, United States
Convener:  Alan J. Tepley, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Conservation Ecology Center, Front Royal, VA, United States
Chairs:  Kristina J Anderson-Teixeira, Smithsonian Institution, Front Royal, United States and Alan J. Tepley, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Conservation Ecology Center, Front Royal, VA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Alan J. Tepley, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Conservation Ecology Center, Front Royal, VA, United States

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

0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0476 Plant ecology [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1631 Land/atmosphere interactions [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Toward an improved understanding of tropical forest carbon cycle feedbacks in the Earth’s climate system (Invited) (81051)
Jeffrey Q Chambers, University of California Berkeley, Department of Geography, Berkeley, United States
Increased Frequency of Large Blowdown Formation in Years With Hotter Dry Seasons in the Northwestern Amazon (75525)
Sami W Rifai, University of Florida, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, Liana O Anderson, INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil; National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters – Cemaden, São José dos Campos, Brazil and Stephanie Bohlman, University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
IMPACTS OF DROUGHT LEGACIES ON TREE DEMOGRAPHY AND SUCCESSIONAL TRAJECTORIES OF TROPICAL FORESTS (Invited) (68442)
Maria Uriarte, Columbia University, New York, United States, Robin Chazdon, University of Connecticut, Storrs, United States and Vanessa Boukili, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States
Combining paleoecology and ecosystem modeling to study forest ecosystem consequences of wildfires from decades to millennia (Invited) (60457)
Philip E Higuera, University of Montana, Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, Missoula, MT, United States, Tara W Hudiburg, University of Idaho, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States and Jeffrey A Hicke, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States
Local Colonization-Extinction Dynamics Generate Lags in the Response to Climate Change in Eastern North American Forests (69092)
Matthew V Talluto1,2, Isabelle Boulangeat2, Steve Vissault2 and Dominique Gravel2, (1)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (2)University of Quebec at Rimouski UQAR, Biologie, chimie, et géographie, Rimouski, QC, Canada
Underestimation of Global Vulnerability to Tree Mortality and Forest Die-Off from Hotter Drought in the Anthropocene — A Synthesis of Contrasting Evidence and Perspectives (Invited) (75930)
Craig D Allen, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, David D Breshears, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States, Nathan G G McDowell, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Francisco Lloret, Universitat Autonom Barcelona, CREAF, Barcelona, Spain

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