B53J:
Tropical Forests Under a Changing Environment III Posters


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Session ID#: 46983

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 the representation of processes relevant to the tropics 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) extremes weather events (e.g. drought, heat waves, and extreme rainfall),

(ii) changing disturbance/demographic/CO2/rainfall/warming rates,

(iii) internal modes of climate variability (e.g. EL Niño), and

(iv) the role of biodiversity and biogeochemistry in modulating these processes.

Primary Convener:  Robinson I Negron Juarez, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Jiafu Mao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Jacquelyn K Shuman, PhD, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States and Chris Doughty, Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Primary Liaisons:  Robinson I Negron Juarez, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, United States and Chris Doughty, Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Chairs:  Robinson I Negron Juarez, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, United States, Chris Doughty, Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Jacquelyn K Shuman, PhD, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Robinson I Negron Juarez, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, United States
Index Terms:

0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0468 Natural hazards [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Tree Growth and Species Diversity in Premontane Neotropical Forests Across an Elevational Gradient in Costa Rica (422145)
Ayhan Yener, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, Eugenio Gonzalez, Texas A&M University, Soltis Center for Research and Education, San Juan, Costa Rica, Georgianne W Moore, Georgia Southern University, Department of Biology, Statesboro, United States, James K Brumbelow, Texas A&M University College Station, Civil & Environmental Engineering, College Station, United States and Manuel Romeo Flores, Yale University, The Forest School, Yale School of the Environment, New Haven, United States
Remote sensing and regression analysis of impacts from Hurricane Maria on forest of Puerto Rico (364394)
Yanlei Feng, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, Robinson I Negron Juarez, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Jeffrey Q Chambers, University of California Berkeley, Department of Geography, Berkeley, United States; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States
Amendments in local meteorological data alter tropical forest biomass predictions of a terrestrial ecosystem model (464183)
Thomas Powell1, Boris Faybishenko1, Deb Agarwal1 and Lara M Kueppers2, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, United States
Assessing the impact of lianas on tree growth in tropical forests (429204)
Elizabeth Kearsley, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium, Geertje van der Heijden, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, Stefan Schnitzer, Marquette University, Milwaukee, United States and Hans Verbeeck, Ghent University, CAVELab - Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology, Gent, Belgium
Benchmarking and parameter sensitivity of FATES predictions of ecosystem structure and function at Barro Colorado Island, Panama (356204)
Charles D Koven1, Ryan G Knox2, Rosie Fisher3, Jeffrey Q Chambers4, Bradley O Christoffersen5, Stuart J Davies6, Matteo Detto7, Michael Dietze8, Boris Faybishenko1, Jennifer Holm9, Marlies Kovenock10, Lara M Kueppers11, Elias Charbel Massoud12, Nathan McDowell13, Helene C Muller-Landau14, Richard J. Norby15, Tom Powell16, Alistair Rogers17, Dr. Shawn Serbin, BA, MS, PhD18, Jacquelyn K Shuman, PhD19, Abigail L. S. Swann20, Charuleka Varadharajan1, Anthony Walker21, S Joseph Wright22 and Chonggang Xu23, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Department of Geography, Berkeley, United States, (5)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (6)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Forest Global Earth Observatory, Washington DC, United States, (7)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, LaVerne, United States, (8)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (9)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States, (10)University of Washington, Department of Biology, Seattle, WA, United States, (11)University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, CA, United States, (12)University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, Berkeley, United States, (13)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (14)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panama, (15)Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (16)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (17)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental and Climate Sciences Department, Upton, United States, (18)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Upton, United States, (19)University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States, (20)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science and Department of Biology, Seattle, United States, (21)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (22)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Gainesville, Gainesville, FL, United States, (23)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Contribution of Tropical Forests to the Changes of Global Land Carbon Sink (461137)
Li Zhang1,2, Pan LI3,4, Jiafu Mao5, Xiaoying Shi6, Xiaoli Ren1 and Honglin He1,2, (1)Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Beijing, China, (2)University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, College of Resources and Environment, Beijing, China, (3)Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang, China, (4)University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (5)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (6)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Dissolved greenhouse gases in streams and their response to Hurricanes Irma and María in a tropical forest in Puerto Rico (438107)
Carla López Lloreda, Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory, Río Grande, PR, United States, William H McDowell, University of New Hampshire, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Durham, United States and Jody Potter, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
Exploring the drivers that affect nitrate in soil solution at Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico (418611)
Qingtao Zhou1, William H McDowell2 and Adam S Wymore1, (1)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Durham, United States
Inter-annual variation in precipitation alters warming-induced belowground carbon fluxes in tropical montane wet forests (401672)
Maokui Lyu, Fujian Normal University, College of Geographical Science, Fuzhou, China; USDA Forest Service, Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, Vallejo, CA, United States, Creighton Litton M Litton, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, Manoa, HI, United States and Christian P Giardina, USDA Forest Service, Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, Hilo, HI, United States
Multi-year Legacy Impacts Following Droughts in a Seasonal Amazon Forest (456531)
Luciana F Alves1, Marcos Longo2, Scott C Stark3, Mauricio Lamano Ferreira4, Cristiane F. G. da Costa5, Luiz Aragao6, Scott R Saleska7, Raimundo Cosme Oliveira Junior8 and Plinio Barbosa de Camargo5, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Los Angeles, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Michigan State University, Forestry, East Lansing, United States, (4)Universidade Nove de Julho, Programa de Mestrado em Cidades Inteligentes e Sustentáveis, Sao Paulo, Brazil, (5)CENA Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, Piracicaba, Brazil, (6)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Remote Sensing Division, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (7)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (8)EMBRAPA Amazonia Oriental/CPATU, Santarem, Brazil
Plant Functional Traits of Carapa guianensis, a Widespread Tropical Tree, Adapted to Local Climate Conditions at Two Elevations in Costa Rica (440696)
Manuel Romeo Flores, Yale University, The Forest School, Yale School of the Environment, New Haven, United States, Abigail Keebler, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, Earth and Space Sciences, West Chester, PA, United States, Elizabeth M. Prior, Auburn University, Civil Engineering, Auburn, AL, United States, Georgianne W Moore, Georgia Southern University, Department of Biology, Statesboro, United States, Eugenio Gonzalez, Texas A&M University, Soltis Center for Research and Education, San Juan, Costa Rica and James K Brumbelow, Texas A&M University College Station, Civil & Environmental Engineering, College Station, United States
Primary Forest Extent and Loss in Brazil, DRC and Indonesia (359951)
Svetlana Turubanova1, Matthew Hansen2, Peter Potapov2 and Alexandra Tyukavina2, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States
Sample-based Assessment of Direct Drivers and Rates of Forest Disturbance in the Congo Basin (350322)
Alexandra Tyukavina1, Matthew Hansen1, Peter Potapov1, Diana Parker1, Chima Okpa2, Stephen V. Stehman3, Indrani Kommareddy2 and Svetlana Turubanova1, (1)University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, (2)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)State University of New York, Department of Sustainable Resources Management, Syracuse, United States
The Central Amazonia Atmosphere Perturbed by Urban Pollution From Manaus (351582)
Paulo Artaxo, USP University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Henrique M Barbosa, Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo., São Paulo, Brazil, Luciana Varanda Rizzo, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Departamento de Ciências Exatas e da Terra, Diadema, Brazil, Samara Carbone, Federal University of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Brazil, Joel Brito, Universidade de São Paulo, Instituto de Física, São Paulo, Brazil, Meinrat O Andreae, King Saud University, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Scot T Martin, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
The rhythm of tropical ecosystems: Drivers of carbon uptake seasonality in ecosystem models (458796)
Maria del Rosario Uribe Diosa, Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States, Carlos A Sierra, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Theoretical Ecosystem Ecology, Jena, Germany and Jeffrey S. Dukes, Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, Stanford, United States
Tree mortality and Extreme Rainfall in the Amazon (439868)
Robinson I Negron Juarez1, Daniel Magnabosco Marra2, Hillary S Jenkins3, Izabela Fonseca Aleixo4, Antenor Barbosa4, Geraldine Derroire5, Jennifer Holm6, Bruno Hérault7, Ervan Rutishauser8, Benoit Burban9, Damien Bonal10, Danielle S Christianson1, Boris Faybishenko1, Matteo Detto11, Alessandro C De Araujo12, Chris J Peterson13, Adriano Jose Nogueira Lima14, Kolby Jardine14, William J Riley15 and Jeffrey Q Chambers16, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Department Biogeochemical Processes, Jena, Germany, (3)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil, (5)CIRAD, UMR EcoFoG, Agroparistech, CNRS, INRAE, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, France, (6)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States, (7)CIRAD, Montpellier, France, (8)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa Ancon, Panama, (9)INRAE, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, Cirad, AgroParisTech, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, France, (10)INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Paris Cedex 07, France, (11)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (12)Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), Belem, PA, Brazil, (13)University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, (14)National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA), Forest Management Laboratory, Manaus, Brazil, (15)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (16)University of California Berkeley, Department of Geography, Berkeley, United States
Warmer temperature affects the capacity of fine-root production to recover after a hurricane event in a tropical rain forest in Puerto Rico (392310)
Daniela Yaffar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States, Richard J. Norby, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Tana E Wood, USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, San Juan, United States, Sasha Reed, U.S. Geological Survey, Southwest Biological Science Center, Moab, United States and Molly A Cavaleri, Michigan Technological University, College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Houghton, MI, United States
What drives phosphatase activity in tropical forests – a modeling study using E3SM Land Model (467367)
Xiaojuan Yang1, Richard Norby2, Kristine G. M. Cabugao2, Daniel M Ricciuto3 and Peter E Thornton4, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States
Why does Amazon precipitation decrease in the plant physiological response to increased CO2? (422827)
Baird Langenbrunner, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, Mike S Pritchard, University California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, Gabriel J Kooperman, University of Georgia, Department of Geography, Athens, GA, United States and James T. Randerson, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States

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