GC13B
Climate-Vegetation Interaction and Land Cover/Land Use Change in Semi-Arid Grassland Ecosystems II Posters

Monday, 14 December 2015: 13:40-18:00
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
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
 
Remote Sensing-based estimates of herbaceous aboveground biomass on the Mongolian Plateau (66542)
Ranjeet John1, Jiquan Chen2, Youngwook Kim3, Zutao Ouyang4, Hoguen Park1 and Changliang Shao1, (1)Michigan State University, Center for Global Change and Earth Observation, East Lansing, MI, United States, (2)University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States, (3)University of Montana, Missoula, MT, United States, (4)Michigan State University, Geography, East Lansing, MI, United States
 
Grazing Effects on Water Use Efficiency on a Mongolian Desert Steppe (62130)
Changliang Shao1, Jiquan Chen2, Linghao Li3, Ranjeet John1 and Zutao Ouyang4, (1)Michigan State University, Center for Global Change and Earth Observation, East Lansing, MI, United States, (2)University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States, (3)Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, beijing, China, (4)Michigan State University, Geography, East Lansing, MI, United States
 
How Has Land Cover Change Affected Precipitation for the Mongolian Plateau Since 2001? (79304)
Nathan J Moore, Michigan State University, Geography, East Lansing, MI, United States; Center for Global Change and Earth Observation, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, Ranjeet John, Michigan State University, Center for Global Change and Earth Observation, East Lansing, MI, United States and Jiquan Chen, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, United States
 
Time Profile of Three Semi-Arid Ecosystems in Africa (63679)
Assaf Anyamba, Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Richard Damoah, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
On the relations between land-surface Water Use Efficiency and Asian dust storms in the Northeast Asia (85302)
Jongho Park and Sinkyu Kang, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, South Korea
 
Mapping Woody Plant Encroachment in Grassland Using Multiple Source Remote Sensing images: Case Study in Oklahoma (76662)
Jie Wang1, Xiangming Xiao1, Yuanwei Qin1, Jinwei Dong1, Geli Zhang2, Yao Zhang1, Zhenhua Zou1, Yuting Zhou1, Xiaocui Wu1 and Rajen Bajgain1, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma, Center for Spatial Analysis, Norman, OK, United States
 
Woody Plant Cover Dynamics in Sahelian Drylands from Earth Observation Based Seasonal Metrics (78320)
Martin Brandt, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
 
The spatial patterns of soil respiration regulated by biological and environmental variables along a precipitation gradient (68283)
Wenfang Xu, CAREERI/CAS Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Lanzhou, China
 
Integrated Response of Grassland Biomass Along Co-varying Gradients of Climate and Grazing Management Using an Eco-hydrologic Model (70631)
Julian J Reyes1, Naomi Tague2, Chad E Kruger3, Kris Johnson3 and Jennifer C Adam3, (1)Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (3)Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
 
Land use/ land cover and ecosystem functions change in the grassland restoration program areas in China from 2000 to 2010 (77691)
Haiyan Zhang and Jiangwen Fan, IGSNRR Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China
 
Soil Microbial Community Responses to Long-Term Global Change Factors in a California Grassland (84352)
Kenneth Qin and Kabir Peay, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
 
A Modified Relative Spectral Mixture Analysis to Extract the Fractions of Major Land Cover Components (83739)
Shenyue Jia, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Plant leaf and root N, P levels and their relationship to geographical and climate factors in a Chinese grassland transect (85686)
Hailing Yu, IGSNRR Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China