B51I:
Advancing Understanding of Ecosystem Structure and Function through Remote Sensing II

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Session ID#: 15596

Session Description:
Remote sensing technologies - applied at different spatial and temporal scales, and using a variety of sensors – are transforming the biogeosciences by producing previously unattainable ecosystem structural and functional information. For example, full-waveform lidar and hyperspectral data products provide new capabilities to link, in novel ways, ecosystem structure and foliar chemistry with biogeochemical processes at scales from leaves to biomes. Moving forward, a variety of emerging remote sensing technologies are poised to dramatically improve understanding of ecosystem structure-function, helping to resolve long-standing fundamental questions within the biogeosciences. We seek submissions from researchers using remote sensing to advance understanding of ecosystem structure and function. This interdisciplinary session will be broad in scope, with submissions highlighting an array of experimental, observational, and modeling studies using remote sensing to address questions in the biogeosciences.
Primary Convener:  Brady S Hardiman, Purdue University, Forestry & Natural Resources and Division of Environmental & Ecological Engineering, West Lafayette, United States
Conveners:  Christopher Michael Gough, Virginia Commonwealth University, Biology, Richmond, VA, United States, Domingo Alcaraz-Segura, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain and Javier Cabello, Universidad de Almeria, Almeria, Spain
Chairs:  Brady S Hardiman, Purdue University, Forestry & Natural Resources and Division of Environmental & Ecological Engineering, West Lafayette, United States, Christopher Michael Gough, Virginia Commonwealth University, Biology, Richmond, VA, United States, Domingo Alcaraz-Segura, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain and Javier Cabello, Universidad de Almeria, Almeria, Spain
OSPA Liaison:  Brady S Hardiman, Purdue University, Forestry & Natural Resources and Division of Environmental & Ecological Engineering, West Lafayette, United States
Index Terms:

0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0476 Plant ecology [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0480 Remote sensing [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Remote sensing of essential ecosystem functional variables (156722)
Domingo Alcaraz-Segura1,2, Camilo Ernesto Bagnato1,3, José M Paruelo3, Ernesto Hugo Berbery4, Javier Cabello5,6, Antonio Castro7, Beatriz P Cazorla5,8, Howard E Epstein9, Néstor Fernández10, Esteban G Jobbágy11, Cecilio Oyonarte6,12, Manuel Pacheco5,6, Julio Peñas1 and María Vallejos3,8, (1)University of Granada, Botany, Granada, Spain, (2)IISTA, iecolab, Granada, Spain, (3)Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (4)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (5)Universidad de Almeria, Almeria, Spain, (6)CAESCG, Almería, Spain, (7)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Oklahoma Biological Survey, Norman, OK, United States, (8)University of Granada, Granada, Spain, (9)University of Virginia, Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (10)German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (11)National University of San Luis, San Luis, Argentina, (12)University of Almeria, Agronomy, Almeria, Spain
Varying influence of environmental gradients on vegetation patterns across biomes (Invited) (123603)
Kyla Dahlin, Michigan State University, Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States; Michigan State University, Program in Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior, East Lansing, MI, United States, Gregory Paul Asner, Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States, Joseph Mascaro, Planet, San Francisco, CA, United States and Phillip R Taylor, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, NC, United States
Functional Biogeography: exploring biogeographic patterns based on ecosystem functioning (192928)
Javier Cabello1,2, Beatriz P Cazorla3, Julio Peñas4, Domingo Alcaraz-Segura4 and José M Paruelo5, (1)University of Almeria, Biology and Geology, Almeria, Spain, (2)CAESCG, Almería, Spain, (3)University of Granada, Granada, Spain, (4)University of Granada, Botany, Granada, Spain, (5)Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Leaf optical properties shed light on foliar trait variability at individual to global scales (Invited) (156915)
Alexey N Shiklomanov1, Dr. Shawn Serbin, BA, MS, PhD2 and Michael Dietze1, (1)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (2)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Biological, Environmental & Climate Sciences, Upton, United States
Measuring foliar chemistry alongside airborne observations in the National Ecological Observatory Network (164988)
Samantha R Weintraub-Leff1, Courtney L Meier2, Tristan Goulden3, Nathan Leisso2 and Shelley Bougan Petroy4, (1)National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle, Boulder, United States, (2)NEON, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)National Ecological Observatory Network, Airborne Observation Platform, Boulder, United States, (4)National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Boulder, CO, United States
Canopy structural complexity as a continental predictor of primary production: Using NEON to transform understanding of forest structure-function (174162)
Jeff Atkins, Virginia Commonwealth University, Biology, Richmond, United States, Robert Timothy Fahey, University of Connecticut, Natural Resources and the Environment, Storrs, United States, Christopher Michael Gough, Virginia Commonwealth University, Biology, Richmond, VA, United States and Brady S Hardiman, Purdue University, Forestry & Natural Resources and Division of Environmental & Ecological Engineering, West Lafayette, United States
Effects of structural complexity on within-canopy light environments and leaf traits in a northern mixed deciduous forest (161793)
Alex Theodore Fotis and Peter Curtis, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States

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