Exploring tropical forest vegetation dynamics using the FATES model

Charles D Koven1, Rosie Fisher2, Ryan G Knox1, Jeffrey Q Chambers3, Lara M Kueppers4, Bradley O Christoffersen5, Stuart J Davies6, Michael Dietze7, Jennifer Holm8, Elias Charbel Massoud9, Helene C Muller-Landau10, Tom Powell11, Dr. Shawn Serbin, BA, MS, PhD12, Jacquelyn K Shuman, PhD13, Anthony P Walker14, S Joseph Wright15 and Chonggang Xu5, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Department of Geography, Berkeley, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, United States, (5)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (6)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Forest Global Earth Observatory, Washington DC, United States, (7)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (8)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States, (9)University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, Berkeley, United States, (10)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama, (11)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (12)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Upton, United States, (13)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (14)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (15)Smithsonian Tropical Res Inst, Ancon, Panama