B14C:
Tropical Forests Under a Changing Climate II

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Session ID#: 32065

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:  Jiafu Mao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Robinson I Negron Juarez, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jacquelyn K Shuman, PhD, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0476 Plant ecology [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Understanding Tropical Forest Abiotic Responses to Canopy Loss and Biomass Deposition from an Experimental Hurricane Manipulation (255133)
Ashley Van Beusekom, University of Saskatchewan, Centre for Hydrology, Canmore, Canada, Grizelle González, US Forest Service San Juan, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, San Juan, PR, United States, Sarah Stankavitch, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan, PR, United States and Jess K Zimmerman, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan, United States
Rapid forest recovery of carbon and water fluxes after a tropical firestorm (295205)
Paulo M Brando1, Divino Vicente Silvério2, Mirco Migliavacca3, Claudinei Santos2, Olaf Kolle3, Jennifer Balch4, Leonardo Maracahipes2, Mercedes Bustamante5, Michael Thomas Coe6 and Susan Trumbore3, (1)Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, MA, 02540-1644, USA, Falmouth, MA, United States, (2)IPAM Amazon Environmental Research Institute, Brasilia, Brazil, (3)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, (4)University of Colorado Boulder, CIRES, ESIIL, Boulder, United States, (5)Universidade de Brasília, Departamento de Ecologia, Brasília, Brazil, (6)Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States
Emergence of nutrient limitation in tropical dry forests: hypotheses from simulation models (288825)
David Medvigy, University of Notre Dame, Department of Biological Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Bonnie Grace Waring, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, Xiangtao Xu, Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY, United States, Annette Trierweiler, University of Notre Dame, Environmental Change Initiative, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Leland Kendall Werden, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Plant Biology, St. Paul, MN, United States, Gangsheng Wang, University of Oklahoma, Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, OK, United States, Qing Zhu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States and Jennifer S Powers, University of Minnesota, College of Biological Sciences, Saint Paul, MN, United States
Fine-Root Production in an Amazon Rain Forest: Deep Roots are an Important Component of Net Primary Productivity (283844)
Richard Norby1, Amanda Longhi Cordeiro2, Erick Oblitas3, Oscar Valverde-Barrantes4 and Carlos Alberto Quesada3, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, United States, (3)National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA), Manaus, Brazil, (4)Florida International University, Miami, United States

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