B33G:
Understanding the Past, Present, and Future of Biodiversity in the Amazon and Brazil’s Atlantic Forest Posters

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Session ID#: 13941

Session Description:
Amazonia is Earth's most iconic center of biological diversity and endemism and, owing to its contributions to global systems ecology, is arguably Earth’s most important terrestrial biome. Additionally, Brazil’s Atlantic Forest harbors one of the largest percentages of endemic species in the world with new species and genera still being described. This session embraces current research on biodiversity in the Amazon and Atlantic Forest. Contributions are welcomed that address characterization and the role of processes through deep time, including climate and geomorphology, that drove the current assemblage of biodiversity, and the influence of climate and land cover conversion on current and future biodiversity. We welcome contributions from fields related to the evolution of these regions’ biomes, such as sedimentology, stratigraphy, neotectonics, geomorphology, paleoclimatology, climate modeling, remote sensing, phylogeny, and biogeography, as well as presentations of new tools or datasets that can be of broad interest to researchers in related fields.
Primary Convener:  Kyle C McDonald, CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States
Convener:  Carlos Grohmann, University of Sao Paulo, Institute of Energy and Environment, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Chairs:  Carlos Grohmann, University of Sao Paulo, Institute of Energy and Environment, Sao Paulo, Brazil and Kyle C McDonald, CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Kyle C McDonald, CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States
Co-Organized with:
Hydrology, and Hydrology
Index Terms:

0410 Biodiversity [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Belterra Clay: The Last Terrestrial Connection Between the Brazilian Shield and the Guiana Shield (Invited) (139580)
Kenneth Campbell, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Division of Vertebrate Studies, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Glacial/Interglacial climate and vegetation history of North-East of Brazil during the last 1.5 Ma and their connection to the Amazonian rainforest (164869)
Andrea Kern1, Paul A Baker2, Francisco William Cruz Sr.3, Gary S. Dwyer4, Cleverson Guizan Silva5, Allan Sandes Sandes5 and Debra A Willard6, (1)USP University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, (2)Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, (3)University of Sao Paulo, Institute of Geosciences, Sao Paulo, Brazil, (4)Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, (5)UFF Federal Fluminense University, Niteroi, Brazil, (6)USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States
Parametrization of Land Surface Temperature Fields with Optical and Microwave Remote Sensing in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest (181346)
Ashfaq Khan1, Kyle C McDonald1 and Ana Carolina Carnaval2, (1)CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (2)CUNY City College, New York, NY, United States
INFERRING AMAZONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY FROM VERTEBRATE PHYLOGENIES AND TIMETREES (182816)
Joel Cracraft, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, United States
Applying NASA Imaging Radar Datasets to Investigate the Geomorphology of the Amazon’s Planalto (197718)
Kyle C McDonald1, Kenneth Campbell2, Rehnuma Islam1, Patrick M Alexander3 and Joel Cracraft4, (1)CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States, (2)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, United States, (4)American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, United States

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