UNDERSTANDING THE CONTROL OF HYDRAULIC TRAITS IN TROPICAL FORESTS USING A HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL WITHIN A DEMOGRAPHIC VEGETATION MODEL


Chonggang Xu, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Bradley O Christoffersen, University of Arizona, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, Rosie Fisher, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Ryan G Knox, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, Liang Wei, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Lara M Kueppers, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, United States, Jeffrey Q Chambers, University of California Berkeley, Department of Geography, Berkeley, United States, Nathan McDowell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States and Charlie Koven, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,, Berkeley, CA, United States