Modeling the impacts of plant hydraulics in tropical forest response to drought


Yilin Fang1, L. Ruby Leung1, Ryan G Knox2, Nathan McDowell3, Charlotte Grossiord4, Brett Wolfe5, Chonggang Xu6, Bradley O Christoffersen7,8, Pierre Gentine9, Daniel Kennedy10 and Charles Koven11, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (4)WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, (5)Louisiana State University, School of Renewable Natural Resources, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, (6)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (7)University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, School of Integrative Biological and Chemical Sciences, Edinburg, United States, (8)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (9)Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States, (10)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States