B33B:
Drivers and Consequences of Changing Forest Productivity Using Individual-Based Models, Remote Sensing, and Field Measurements II Posters

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Session ID#: 35623

Session Description:
Forests cover vast expanses and provide a wide range of goods and services. Some reports indicate widespread forest productivity declines in recent decades coincident with warming and associated increases in drought, fire, and insect outbreak (often referred to as a "browning" trend), while others indicate a broad stasis or even increasing productivity (a "greening" trend). Key next steps include improved change detection, reconciling diverse evidence, and increased understanding of underlying mechanisms. This session will focus on the drivers and consequences of forest browning or greening, as well as related productivity, demographic, compositional and structural changes. Submissions reporting research that uses a range of tools are encouraged, including ground-based measurements, remote sensing, and/or process based models. We especially encourage submissions that diagnose patterns and/or causes of vegetation change, assess the consequences for ecological services, provide improved mechanistic understanding, or reconcile multiple lines of evidence.
Primary Convener:  Michael Goulden, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States
Conveners:  Amanda Hildt Armstrong1, Adrianna Foster1 and Ted Hogg2, (1)University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States(2)Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Chairs:  Ted Hogg, Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada and Amanda Hildt Armstrong, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Adrianna Foster, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States

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

0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0480 Remote sensing [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Applying and Individual-Based Model to Simultaneously Evaluate Net Ecosystem Production and Tree Diameter Increment (214996)
FangJing Jing Fang, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
GOSAILT: A hybrid of GOMS and SAILT with topography consideration (229113)
Shengbiao Wu, RADI Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Jianguang Wen, CAS Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of remote sensing and digital earth, Beijng, China
Shifting Patterns of Boreal Forest Succession and Browning Over the Last 30 Years (280714)
Michael Goulden, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, Claudia I Czimczik, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, United States and James T. Randerson, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States
Towards Linking 3D SAR and Lidar Models with a Spatially Explicit Individual Based Forest Model (283959)
Jon Ranson1, Guoqing Sun1, Amanda Hildt Armstrong2, Batuhan Osmanoglu3, Rico Fischer4 and Andreas Huth5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Ecological Modelling, Leipzig, Germany, (5)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research–UFZ, Department of Ecological Modelling, Leipzig, Germany

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