GC54A:
Agricultural Expansion and Forest Loss in Tropical Regions: Observations, Drivers, Impacts, and Solutions I
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Session ID#: 32417
Session Description:
To feed the 7 billion people on the planet, ~40% of the land surface has been changed into croplands. The tropics remains an important agricultural frontier also experiencing one of the world’s fastest rates of deforestation, which is likely to continue over the next decades given the near doubling of food demand expected by 2050. Beyond the lost carbon and biodiversity, agricultural expansion could have large additional ecosystem and environmental impacts, the extent dependent on the geographical and ecological features of the new cropland. For instance, agricultural expansion is rapidly occurring in the uplands of mainland Southeast Asia. Identifying the spatial heterogeneity of agriculture expansion and deforestation in the tropics, and its underlying drivers and impacts, have significant implications for both forest conservation and sustainable food security. This session invites submissions that address observations, drivers, impacts, and solutions of agricultural expansion and deforestation in the tropics during the 21st century.
Primary Convener: Eric F Wood, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
Conveners: Zhenzhong Zeng, Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States and Anping Chen, Purdue University, Forestry and Natural Resources, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Chairs: Eric F Wood, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, Zhenzhong Zeng, Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States and Anping Chen, Purdue University, Forestry and Natural Resources, West Lafayette, IN, United States
OSPA Liaison: Anping Chen, Purdue University, Forestry and Natural Resources, West Lafayette, IN, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Drew Gower1, Zhenzhong Zeng1, Kelly K Caylor2 and Eric F Wood1, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ, United States
Mark Broich, University of New South Wales, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Science, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Mirela G Tulbure, North Carolina State University, Center for Geospatial Analytics, Raleigh, United States, Arief Wijaya, World Resources Institute Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia, Mikaela Weisse, World Resources Institute, Washington DC, DC, United States and Fred Stolle, World Resources Institute, Land & Carbon Lab, Washington DC, United States
Olivier Evrard1, Olivier Ribolzi2, Sylvain Huon3, Anneke de Rouw4, Norbert Silvera5, Keo Oudone Latsachack6, Bounsamai Soulileuth6, Irène Lefèvre1, Alain Pierret6, Guillaume Lacombe7, Oloth Sengtaheuanghoung8 and Christian Valentin9, (1)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (2)GET Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, Toulouse, France, (3)IEES - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, (4)IEES - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Paris, France, (5)IEES - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Bondy, France, (6)Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Department of Agricultural Land Management (DALaM), Vientiane, Laos, (7)International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Southeast Asia Regional Office, Vientiane, Laos, (8)Department of Agricultural Land Management (DALAM), Vientiane, Laos, (9)IEES - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Bondy, France
Gabriele Manoli1, Ana Meijide2, Neil Huth3, Alexander Knohl4, Yoshiko Kosugi5, Paolo Burlando6, Jaboury Ghazoul1 and Simone Fatichi7, (1)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)University of Göttingen, Crop Sciences, Göttingen, Germany, (3)CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Toowoomba,, Australia, (4)Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Bioclimatology, Goettingen, Germany, (5)Kyoto University, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto, Japan, (6)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Instituteof Environmental Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland, (7)ETH Zurich, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland
Marcos Heil Costa1, Leonardo C Fleck2, Avery Cohn3, Gabriel Abrahão1, Paulo M Brando4, Michael Thomas Coe5, Rong Fu6, Deborah Lawrence7, Gabrielle Ferreira Pires8, Raphael Pousa8 and Britaldo Soares Filh9, (1)UFV Federal University of Vicosa, Vicosa, Brazil, (2)GBMF, Palo Alto, CA, United States, (3)Tufts University, The Fletcher School, Medford, MA, United States, (4)Yale University, School of the Environment, New Haven, CT, United States, (5)Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States, (6)University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)University of Virginia, Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (8)UFV, Vicosa - MG, Brazil, (9)UFMG, Belo Horizonte - MG, Brazil
Andre Rene Sanfiorenzo1, Irene Shaver2, Adina Chain Guadarrama3, Katherine Cleary4, Ricardo Santiago-Garcia5, Bryan Finegan3, Leontina Hormel6, Nicole Sibelet7, Lee Alexander Vierling8, Nilsa Bosque-Perez9, Fabrice DeClerck10, Matthew E Fagan11 and Lisette Waits12, (1)Uuniversity of Puerto Rico, Agriculture technology, Utuado, PR, United States, (2)New Orleans, LA, United States, (3)Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center, Turrialba, Costa Rica, (4)Turners Falls, MA, United States, (5)FloriansPolis, TO, Brazil, (6)Dana Point, CA, United States, (7)CIRAD Montpellier, Montpellier Cedex 05, France, (8)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (9)University of Idaho, PSES, Moscow, ID, United States, (10)Houston, TX, United States, (11)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, (12)University of Idaho, Fish and Wildlife Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States
Elsa Ordway, University of California Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, United States, Gregory P. Asner, Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, CA, United States, Rosamond Lee Naylor, Stanford Earth Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, Raymond Nkongho, University of Buea, Department of Agronomic and Applied Molecular Sciences, Buea, Cameroon and Eric Lambin, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Johanne Pelletier, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States; Woods Hole Research Ctr, Falmouth, MA, United States
