GC11I
Climate-Vegetation Interaction and Land Cover/Land Use Change in Semi-Arid Grassland Ecosystems I

Monday, 14 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
3003 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Ranjeet John, Michigan State University, Center for Global Change and Earth Observation, East Lansing, MI, United States
Conveners:  Changliang Shao, Michigan State University, Center for Global Change and Earth Observation, East Lansing, MI, United States and Youngwook Kim, Univ Montana, NTSG, Missoula, MT, United States
Chairs:  Ranjeet John, Michigan State University, Center for Global Change and Earth Observation, East Lansing, MI, United States and Youngwook Kim, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Changliang Shao, Michigan State University, Center for Global Change and Earth Observation, East Lansing, MI, United States
08:00
GC11I-01
Climate Compatible Development in the Mongolia Steppe: analysis of vulnerability and adaptation response to global changes (Invited) (73309)
Dennis S Ojima and Chuluun Togtokh, Colorado State University, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States
08:15
GC11I-02
Comparative Perspectives on Recent Trends in Land Surface Dynamics in the Grasslands of North and South America (Invited) (60565)
Geoffrey M Henebry1, Pedro Valle De Carvalho E Oliveira1, Baojuan Zheng1, Kirsten de Beurs2 and Braden Owsley2, (1)South Dakota State University, Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence, Brookings, SD, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma, Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, OK, United States
08:30
GC11I-03
Remote sensing of ecosystem vulnerability: Assessing climate-vegetation-livestock interactions in Mongolia (Invited) (77050)
Sinkyu Kang, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, South Korea
08:45
GC11I-04
Beyond Monitoring: A Brief Review of the Use of Remote Sensing Technology for Assessing Dryland Sustainability (Invited) (65731)
Robert A Washington-Allen, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States
09:00
GC11I-05
Analysis of Historical and CMIP5 Projections of Multi-decadal Climatic Variation and Implications for Ecosystem Management on the Colorado Plateau (73269)
Barry Baker, Conservation Biology Institute, Corvallis, OR, United States
09:15
GC11I-06
Non-Linear Dynamics Approach to Assessing Woody-Encroachment in Grasslands (80044)
Nathaniel A Brunsell1, Jesse B Nippert2 and Erik Van Vleck1, (1)University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States, (2)Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States
09:30
GC11I-07
Temporal Responses of NDVI to Climate Factors in Different Climatic Regions (60831)
Hossein Zare, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Agronomy, Mashhad, Iran
09:45
GC11I-08
Variations of soil δ13C and δ15N across a precipitation gradient in a savanna ecosystem: Implications of climate change on the carbon cycle (58661)
Kebonye Dintwe1, William Gilhooly III2, Lixin Wang3, Frances C O'Donnell4, Abinash Bhattachan5, Paolo D'Odorico5 and Greg S Okin1, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Indiana University Purdue Univ, Indianapolis, IN, United States, (3)Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN, United States, (4)Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (5)University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States
 
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