B14C:
Ecological (A)synchrony of Forest Responses to Climate II

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Session ID#: 15259

Session Description:
Lengthening of the growing season and increasing frequency of extreme climate events are anticipated in coming decades. Continental-scale warming could synchronize phenology, growth, and demography across regions for which seasonal precipitation and temperature variability have normally been anti-phased (e.g., US Pacific Northwest vs. Southwest for winter precipitation; US East vs. West for summer temperature and precipitation; and the US Southeast vs. Northwest for winter/spring temperatures). This session will encompass a broad array of perspectives on ecological synchrony in the context of climate variability and change for understanding and forecasting the vulnerability and resilience of the world’s forests in the coming decades.
Primary Convener:  Franco Biondi, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States
Conveners:  Jane R Foster, University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, Burlington, United States, John B Bradford, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Julio L Betancourt, USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States
Chairs:  Franco Biondi, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States, Jane R Foster, University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, Burlington, United States, John B Bradford, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Julio L Betancourt, USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  John B Bradford, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0410 Biodiversity [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Integrating Statistical and Expert Knowledge to Develop Phenoregions for the Continental United States (Invited) (120949)
Dr. Forrest M Hoffman, PhD, Computational Earth Sciences Group and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, Jitendra Kumar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, William Walter Hargrove, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Hot Springs National, AR, United States, Steven P Norman, USDA Forest Service, Asheville, NC, United States and Bjorn-Gustaf Brooks, US Forest Service Asheville, Asheville, NC, United States
Spring Onset Variations and Influences of the Climate System: Results from New Hemispheric-scale Products and Remote Sensing (195093)
Xiaolu Li, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States and Toby Ault, Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, Ithaca, NY, United States
Stand structure and composition provide differential tree-ring growth signals in eastern U.S. forests (148982)
M Ross Alexander, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Christine Rollinson, Boston University, Boston, United States, Alex Dye, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, Neil Pederson, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, David JP Moore, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States and Valerie Trouet, University of Arizona, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, Tucson, AZ, United States
Linking climate and environmental factors to the recent and surprising growth increase of red spruce trees across the northeastern US (175845)
Alexandra M Kosiba1, Paul Gerard Schaberg2, Shelly A Rayback3 and Gary J. Hawley1, (1)University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, Burlington, VT, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service, Burlington, VT, United States, (3)University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States
Rising Variance and Synchrony across Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems of Western North America (124258)
Bryan Black, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Program in Ocean Science & Engineering, Atlanta, GA, United States
Century-scale Changes in Environmental Synchrony and Variability and their Effects on Populations of Birds and Reproduction of Trees (Invited) (120830)
Walter Koenig, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States

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