B13L:
Tropical Forests Under a Changing Climate I
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Session ID#: 31881
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 modeling, remote sensing and measurement results. Processes to be highlighted include the response of tropical forest ecosystems to (i) extreme weather events (e.g. drought, heat waves, and extreme rainfall), (ii) changing disturbance/demographic/rainfall/warming/CO2 rates, (iii) climate variability (e.g. EL Nio), as well as (iv) the role of biodiversity and biogeochemistry in modulating these processes, (v) forest-atmosphere feedbacks, and (vi) biogeochemical cycles.
Primary Convener: Robinson I Negron Juarez, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners: Kolby Jardine, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States, Jiafu Mao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Jacquelyn K Shuman, PhD, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs: Jacquelyn K Shuman, PhD, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States and Robinson I Negron Juarez, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison: Jiafu Mao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Luiza Maria T Aparecido, Texas A&M University College Station, Ecosystem Science and Management, College Station, United States, Gretchen R Miller, Texas A & M University, Civil & Environmental Engineering, College Station, TX, United States, Anthony T Cahill, Texas A & M University, Civil Engineering, College Station, TX, United States, Ryan Andrews, Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States and Georgianne W Moore, Texas A & M University, College Station, United States
Tirtha Banerjee and Rodman Linn, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Bruno Gimenez1, Kolby Jardine2, Robinson I Negron Juarez3, Leticia Oliveira Cobello4, Clarissa Fontes5, Todd E Dawson6, Kolby Jardine2 and Jeffrey Q Chambers7, (1)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), Balboa, Panama, (2)INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)World Bank, Washington, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)University of California Berkeley, Integrative Biology, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
Douglas C Morton1, Veronika Leitold2, Marcos Longo3, Michael Keller4, Maiza Nara dos-Santos5 and Marcos Augusto Scaranello Sr5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)USDA Forest Service, Rio Piedras, United States, (5)Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), Embrapa Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, Brazil
Naomi Schwartz1, Jennifer S Powers2, German Vargas3, Xiangtao Xu4, Christina M Smith5, Timothy Brodribb6, Leland Kendall Werden5, Justin Becknell7 and David Medvigy8, (1)University of British Columbia, Department of Geography, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (2)University of Minnesota, College of Biological Sciences, Saint Paul, MN, United States, (3)University of Minnesota, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Saint Paul, MN, United States, (4)Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY, United States, (5)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Plant Biology, St. Paul, MN, United States, (6)University of Tasmania, Discipline of Biological Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, Hobart, Australia, (7)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (8)Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
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
