B21B:
Degraded and Second Growth Tropical Forests in the Earth System II Posters

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Session ID#: 23560

Session Description:
Land use and land cover changes in tropical forest ecosystems have global impacts on carbon, nutrient, water, and surface energy budgets. Changes in land use are not restricted to deforestation. Remaining tropical forests are often near the edge of deforested areas and have been degraded from logging, fire, livestock grazing, and fragmentation. Second growth forests in previously deforested areas are common in some landscapes, and reforestation programs aim to rapidly expand tropical forest cover in coming years.While important, the contribution of degraded and second growth forests to biogeochemistry, water, and energy cycles is still poorly quantified. This session welcomes contributions from field measurements and experiments, remote sensing observations, and models that advance our understanding of the role of second growth and degraded tropical forests in the Earth System.
Primary Convener:  Marcos Longo, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Michael Maier Keller, US Forest Service San Juan, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, San Juan, PR, United States and Douglas C Morton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Chairs:  Douglas C Morton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States and Marcos Longo, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Marcos Longo, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Recovery of Methane Consumption by Secondary Forests in the Amazon River Basin (283237)
Kevin Webster1, Laura K Meredith1, Wagner Piccini2, Alexandre Pedrinho3, Klaus Nüsslein4, Joost L M Van Haren5, Plinio Barbosa de Camargo6, Tsai S Mui3 and Scott R Saleska7, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Sao Paulo, Center for Nuclear Energy In Agriculture, Piraciaba, Brazil, (3)University of Sao Paulo, Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, Piracicaba, Brazil, (4)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, (5)University of Arizona, Biosphere 2, Tucson, United States, (6)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (7)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States
Characterizing Exterior and Interior Tropical Forest Structure Variability with Full-Waveform Airborne LIDAR Data in Lopé, Gabon (299642)
Suzanne Marselis, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Hao Tang, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, James Bryan Blair, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 61A, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Michelle A Hofton, Univ Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, John David Armston, University of Maryland, College Park, United States and Ralph Dubayah, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
A Multi-temporal Analysis of Logging Impacts on Tropical Forest Structure Using Airborne Lidar Data (225117)
Michael Maier Keller, US Forest Service San Juan, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, San Juan, PR, United States, Ekena Rangel Pinagé, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, Paul Duffy, Neptune and Company, Lakewood, United States, Marcos Longo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, Maiza Nara dos-Santos, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), Embrapa Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, Brazil, Veronika Leitold, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Douglas C Morton, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Multi-stage approach to estimate forest biomass in degraded area by fire and selective logging (210043)
Erone Ghizoni Santos1, Yosio E Shimabukuro2, Egidio Arai3, Valdete Duarte4, Anderson Jorge5 and Kaio Gasparini4, (1)University of Helsinki, Department of Geosciences and Geography, Helsinki, Finland, (2)National Institute For Space Research (INPE), Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (3)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (4)National Institute For Space Research (INPE), São José dos Campos, Brazil, (5)Jorge, São José dos Campos, Brazil

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