B42A:
Tropical Forests under a Changing Climate III
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Session ID#: 15430
Session Description:
Tropical forests comprise the most biologically diverse terrestrial ecosystems, cycle more carbon and water than any other biome, and play critical roles in determining Earth’s energy balance. Thus a better understanding of tropical forest processes is required to develop improved Earth System Models (ESMs). Improving representation of these processes in ESMs requires a tight coupling of model development and process-based field and lab investigations. This session will focus on research in tropical forests from an Earth system perspective including both modeling and measurement results. Processes to be highlighted include the response of tropical forests to moisture deficits and drought, elevated temperatures, and changing disturbance/demographic rates, including the role of biodiversity and belowground biogeochemistry in modulating these processes. Of particular interest are contributions that explore El Niño impacts on tropical forest ecohydrology and carbon cycle responses.
Primary Convener: Jeffrey Q Chambers, University of California Berkeley, Department of Geography, Berkeley, United States
Conveners: Thomas Powell1, Charlotte Grossiord2 and Bradley O Christoffersen2, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States(2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Chairs: Bradley O Christoffersen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Thomas Powell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison: Charlotte Grossiord, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Nathan G G McDowell, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States
Boris Sakschewski1, Thonicke Kirsten2, Werner von Bloh1, Lourens Poorter3, Marielos Pena-Claros3 and Alice Boit1, (1)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, (2)Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, RD1 - Earth System Analysis, Potsdam, Germany, (3)Wageningen University and Research Center, Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen, Netherlands
Jin Wu1, Dr. Shawn Serbin, BA, MS, PhD2, Xiangtao Xu3, Kaiyu Guan4, Loren Albert5, Matthew Hayek6, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe7, Aline P Lopes8, Kenia T Wiedemann9, Bradley O Christoffersen10, Ran Meng11, Alessandro C De Araujo12, Raimundo Cosme Oliveira Junior13, Plinio Barbosa de Camargo14, Rodrigo da Silva15, Bruce W Nelson16, Alfredo R Huete7, Alistair Rogers17 and Scott R Saleska18, (1)The University of Hong Kong, School of Biological Sciences, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (2)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Biological, Environmental & Climate Sciences, Upton, United States, (3)Princeton University, Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Agroecosystem Sustainability Center, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, Urbana, United States, (5)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (6)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (7)University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia, (8)National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA), Manaus, AM, Brazil, (9)Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, (10)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (11)Huazhong Agricultural University, Natural Resources and Environment Department, Wuhan, China, (12)EMBRAPA Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation- EMBRAPA, Embrapa Amazonia Oriental, Belem, Brazil, (13)EMBRAPA Brazilian Agricultural Research Corportation, Campinas, Brazil, (14)University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, United States, (15)Federal University of Western Pará, Santarém, Brazil, (16)INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil, (17)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental & Climate Sciences Department, Upton, United States, (18)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States
Eileen Helmer1, L. Scott Baggett2, Benjamin Bird2, Christopher Daly3, Elizabeth A. Gerson4 and Thomas Ruzycki5, (1)USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, San Juan, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)PRISM Climate Group, College of Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, (4)Springwood Ecology, Houghton, MI, United States, (5)Colorado State University, Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands, Fort Collins, United States
Jess K Zimmerman1, James Aaron Hogan2, Seth Rifkin2 and Sarah Stankavitch2, (1)University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan, United States, (2)University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan, PR, United States
James Tremper Randerson, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
Dr. Forrest M Hoffman, PhD, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Dr. Min Xu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Nathan Collier, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division, Oak Ridge, United States, Chonggang Xu, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Bradley O Christoffersen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Yiqi Luo, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, Daniel M Ricciuto, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Paul Alexander Levine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States and James Tremper Randerson, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
Grizelle Gonzalez, USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, Vallejo, United States, Ashley Van Beusekom, University of Saskatchewan, Centre for Hydrology, Canmore, Canada and Martha A Scholl, USGS Headquarters, Reston, VA, United States
Lucas A Cernusak1, Raymond Dempsey2, Alexander Cheesman2, Patrick Meir3 and Susan Laurance2, (1)James Cook University, College of Science and Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (2)James Cook University, College of Science and Engineering, Cairns, Australia, (3)Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
