B53A:
Alteration of Disturbance-Driven Forest Dynamics under a Changing Climate II Posters

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Session ID#: 12625

Session Description:
Climate change and disturbance are two of the major forces shaping the dynamics of forests worldwide. Their interactive effects can be particularly consequential; climate change is expected to impact the frequency and intensity of disturbances, including drought, bark beetle outbreaks, and wildfires. Moreover, climate change may alter the resilience of forests to such disturbances, in some systems potentially resulting in shifts to alternative ecosystem states or trajectories. The result will be alteration of forest composition, biogeochemistry, and interactions with the climate system on scales ranging from single trees to biomes and from minutes to millennia. Anticipating the impacts of these changes requires both empirical and modeling studies that link mechanistic processes across spatial and temporal scales. This session will include research incorporating current, paleo ecological, modeling, or data-model integration studies to answer critical questions concerning disturbance and climate interactions in forest ecosystems across a range of spatial and temporal scales.
Primary Convener:  Tara W Hudiburg, University of Idaho, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States
Conveners:  Philip E Higuera, University of Montana, Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, Missoula, MT, United States, 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
Chairs:  Alan J. Tepley, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Conservation Ecology Center, Front Royal, VA, United States, Tara W Hudiburg, University of Idaho, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States, Philip E Higuera, University of Montana, Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences, Missoula, MT, United States and Kristina J Anderson-Teixeira, Smithsonian Institution, Front Royal, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Alan J. Tepley, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Conservation Ecology Center, Front Royal, VA, United States
Index Terms:

0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Ecosystem Disturbances in Central European Spruce Forests: a Multi-proxy Integration of Dendroecology and Sedimentary Records (175510)
Jennifer Clear1,2, Richard Christopher Chiverrell3, Petr Kunes4, John Boyle5, Niina Kuosmanen6 and Vachel Carter4, (1)Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (2)Liverpool Hope University, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (3)University of Liverpool, School of Environmental Sciences, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (4)Charles University, Department of Botany, Prague, Czech Republic, (5)University of Liverpool, Department of Geography and Planning, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (6)Czech University of Life Sciences, Forest Ecology, Prague, Czech Republic
DisturbED: A Generalized Framework for Modeling Forest Insects and Pathogens in the Earth System (175785)
Jaclyn Hatala Matthes, Wellesley College, Biological Sciences, Wellesley, United States
Drier climate and productivity of operational poplar plantation - four years of throughfall exclusion experiment (180007)
Matej Orsag1, Milan Fischer1 and Miroslav Trnka2, (1)Global Change Research Institute CAS, Brno, Czech Republic, (2)Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
Application of the Ecosystem Disturbance and Recovery Tracker in Detection of Forest Health Departure from Desired Conditions in Sierra Nevada National Forests (181638)
Michele Slaton, US Forest Service, McClellan, United States, Alexander Koltunov, Center for Spatial Technologies and Remote Sensing (CSTARS), Dept. Land, Air, and Water Resources, University of CA, Davis, United States and Carlos Ramirez, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region Remote Sensing Lab, McClellan, CA, United States
The role of disappeared disturbances in driving the North American prairie-forest boundary (182765)
Kelly Heilman, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, United States, Jason S McLachlan, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States and Jennifer Marlon, Yale University, School of the Environment, New Haven, CT, United States
Long term forest cover change in China and the improvements to disturbance size-frequency modeling (185267)
Dan-Xia Song, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States and Chengquan Huang, University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States
The effects of forest fragmentation on biodiversity under post-drought conditions (136594)
Alexandra Lawrence and Andrea Swei, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, United States
Phytoliths as a tool to track plant community changes after fire regime shift (198414)
Renske Kirchholtes, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Jan M. van Mourik, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands and Bart R Johnson, University of Oregon, Landscape Architecture, Eugene, OR, United States
Drivers and implications of recent large fire years in boreal North America (130491)
Sander Veraverbeke1,2, Brendan M Rogers3, Michael Goulden2, Randi Jandt4, Charles E Miller5, Elizabeth Brooke Wiggins6 and James Tremper Randerson7, (1)Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (2)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, United States, (4)Fire Ecologist, Alaska Fire Science Consortium, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (5)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (6)University of California, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (7)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
Measuring and modeling carbon balance in mountainous Northern Rocky mixed conifer forests (135916)
Tara W Hudiburg, University of Idaho, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States, Danielle Berardi, University of Idaho, Institute for Innovative Climate Solutions, Moscow, ID, United States and Jeffrey Stenzel, University of California Merced, Management of Complex Systems, Merced, CA, United States
Automated Monitoring of Carbon Fluxes in a Northern Rocky Mountain Forest Indicates Above-Average Net Primary Productivity During the 2015 Western U.S. Drought (182347)
Jeffrey Stenzel, University of California Merced, Management of Complex Systems, Merced, CA, United States and Tara W Hudiburg, University of Idaho, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States
An Evaluation of Historical Fire Occurrence, Drought and the El Niño Southern Oscillation in the Southcentral United States (145457)
Molly Rooney, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, MO, United States and Michael C Stambaugh, University of Missouri-Columbi, Columbia, MO, United States
Simulating Forest Carbon Dynamics in Response to Large-scale Fuel Reduction Treatments Under Projected Climate-fire Interactions in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, USA (153612)
Shuang Liang, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States and Matthew D Hurteau, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Influence of Precipitation, Vegetation Type, and Fire Severity on Post-Fire Vegetation Recovery in Colorado Ecosystems from 1985-2014 (157129)
Kyle A Whittinghill1, Maggie Mackinley2, Mike Beitner2 and Rebecca T Barnes3, (1)University of Pittsburgh, Department of Geology and Evironmental Science, Pittsburgh, PA, United States, (2)Colorado College, Organismal Biology and Ecology Department, Colorado Springs, CO, United States, (3)Colorado College, Environmental Studies Program, Colorado Springs, CO, United States
Robust assessment of future forest development across Europe by 3D-CMCC Forest Ecosystem Model (159404)
Luca Caporaso1, Alessio Collalti2 and Dr. Monia Santini, PhD2, (1)Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Viterbo, Italy, (2)Euro Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Viterbo, Italy
Model-based evidence for persistent species zonation shifts in the southern Rocky Mountains under a warming climate (165343)
Adrianna Foster, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Jacquelyn K Shuman, PhD, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States, Herman Henry Shugart, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Kathleen A Dwire, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Paula Fornwalt, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Jason Sibold, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States and José F Negrón, US Forest Service Fort Collins, Fort Collins, CO, United States

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