GC43B:
Afforestation and Reforestation: Drivers, Dynamics, and Impacts II Posters

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Session ID#: 22967

Session Description:
Afforestation/Reforestation (or Forestation) has been implemented worldwide as an effective measure to sustain ecosystem services and address global environmental problems. The conversion of grasslands, croplands, shrublands, or bare lands to forests can dramatically alter ecosystem water, energy and carbon cycles and ecosystem services, potentially affecting the local and regional climate. Large-scale afforestation/reforestation is typically driven by policies, and in turn can have substantial socioeconomic impacts. This session focuses on the drivers, dynamics, and impacts of afforestation/reforestation at regional, national, or global scales. We invite submissions that address (1) monitoring and detecting the rates and extent of afforestation/reforestation; (2) impacts of afforestation/reforestation on ecosystem services (e.g., carbon sequestration, water supply, soil conservation, climate regulation, biodiversity); (3) impacts of afforestation/reforestation on regional and global climate; and (4) human dimensions of afforestation and reforestation (e.g., policies, governance, and socioeconomic impacts).
Primary Convener:  Jingfeng Xiao, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States
Convener:  Ge Sun, USDA Forest Svc, Southern Research Station, Raleigh, NC, United States
Chairs:  Jingfeng Xiao, University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, United States and Ge Sun, USDA Forest Svc, Southern Research Station, Raleigh, NC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jingfeng Xiao, University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, United States
Co-Organized with:
Global Environmental Change, Atmospheric Sciences, Biogeosciences, and Hydrology

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6319 Institutions [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Multi-aged Forest: an Optimal Management Strategy for Carbon Sequestration (217265)
Xuguang Tang, Mingguo Ma and Li Yao, Southwest University, School of Geographical Sciences, Chongqing, China
Socioeconomic Collapse of Rural Areas, Atlantic Forest Transition and Sustainability (221575)
Ramon Felipe Bicudo da Silva, UNICAMP State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, Mateus Batistella, Center for Environmental Studies and Researche, Campinas, Brazil and Emilio F Moran, Michigan State University, Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, MI, United States
Impacts of large scale afforestation on regional climate: a case study in the Kubuqi Desert, Inner Mongolia based on WRF model (232478)
Liming Wang1, Guanghui Lin1, Duole Feng1, Shiping Chen2, Natalie M Schultz3, Congsheng Fu3, Zhongwang Wei3, Chengguo Yin4, Wenbiao Wang4 and Xuhui Lee5, (1)Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (2)IB Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, (4)Elion Resources Group, Co., Beijing, China, (5)Yale University, School of the Environment, New Haven, CT, United States
Afforestation may have little effect on hydrological cycle over the Three-North region of China (236151)
Shanshan Meng and Xianhong Xie, Beijing Normal University, Faculty of Geographical Science, State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Beijing, China
Is Forest Restoration in the Southwest China Karst Promoted Mainly by Climate Change or Human-Induced Factors? (267843)
Hongyan Cai, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing City, China
Variations in Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Stocks of Deep Profile Following Re-vegetation along Precipitation Gradient in the Loess Plateau of China (276925)
Dengfeng Tuo, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Guangyao Gao, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Bojie Fu, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Beijing, China
Spatially quantifying and attributing 17 years of land cover change to examine post-agricultural forest transition in Hawai`i (293017)
Matthew Lucas1, Clay Trauernicht2, Kimberly M. Carlson3, Tomoaki Miura4, Thomas W Giambelluca5 and Qi Chen3, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Geography and Environment, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Natural Resources and Environmental Management, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (4)University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, United States, (5)University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Hawaiʻi Sea Grant, Honolulu, United States

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