GC13G:
Global Vegetation and Land Surface Dynamics in a Changing Climate Posters


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Session ID#: 49837

Session Description:
Changes in vegetation biomass have multiple drivers, including natural ecosystem variability, climate changes, and anthropogenic activities. Historically, clearing of native ecosystems for agriculture has dominated these vegetation transitions, but there is growing evidence of ecosystem change in response to shifting rainfall and climate regimes, seasonality, and even CO2 fertilization effects. Future climate changes and intensifying land management will bring additional, interactive changes to natural and managed ecosystems. Managing these systems requires understanding the multiscale drivers of these vegetation dynamics, the mechanisms by which they operate, and how they change over time. This session invites submissions from diverse perspectives, including observed, empirical, and process-based modeling approaches. Talks will examine vegetation trends and identify the critical scales, mechanisms, and feedbacks driving vegetation and land surface dynamics in a changing climate. We will emphasize emerging trends, vegetation responses to ecosystem change, and outstanding uncertainties to direct future data collection efforts and model development.
Primary Convener:  Pinki Mondal, University of Delaware, Newark, United States
Conveners:  Sonali Shukla McDermid, New York University, New York, NY, United States, Marcia Macedo, Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States and Yuhan Rao, North Carolina State University, North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, Asheville, United States
Primary Liaison:  Pinki Mondal, University of Delaware, Newark, United States
Chairs:  Marcia Macedo, Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States and Yuhan Rao, North Carolina State University, North Carolina Institute for Climate Studies, Asheville, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Sonali Shukla McDermid, New York University, New York, NY, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1988 Temporal analysis and representation [INFORMATICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Forest Degradation in South Asia: A Vegetation Trend Analysis in the Context of Climate Variability (422520)
Pinki Mondal, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States and Sonali Shukla McDermid, New York University, New York, NY, United States
VEGETATION DYNAMIC TRENDS AND THE MAIN DRIVERS DETECTED USING THE ENSEMBLE EMPIRICAL MODE DECOMPOSITION METHOD IN EAST AFRICA (359935)
Fangli Wei, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Global Vegetation Variability and its Response to Elevated CO2, Global Warming, and Climate Variability - A Study Using the Offline SSiB4/TRIFFID Model and Satellite Data (360962)
Ye Liu, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Yongkang Xue, Univ California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, Glen M MacDonald, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, Peter Michael Cox, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom and Zhengqiu Zhang, CAMS Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China
Species Specific Changes of Leaf N allocation as Progressive Nitrogen Limitation Occurs on Four Tree Species growing Future Climate Conditions in Open Top Chambers (361634)
Siyeon Byeon1, Wookyung Song1, Sukyung Kim1, Hyun Seok Kim2 and Hyemin Lim3, (1)Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Seoul National University, Department of Agriculture, Forestry, and Bioresources, Seoul, South Korea, (3)National Institute of Forest Science, Forest Genetic Resources Department, Seoul, South Korea
Using carbon isotope ratios to verify predictions of a model simulating the interaction between coastal plant communities and their effect on ground water salinity (380931)
Suresh Subedi, University of Miami, Department of Biology, Miami, FL, United States, Leonel O Sternberg, Univ Miami, Department of Biology, Miami, FL, United States and Donald DeAngelis, U. S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Miami, FL, United States
Testing Possible Climatic Mechanisms of Vegetation Turnover and Novelty in North America and Europe (381078)
Kevin D Burke, University of Wisconsin Madison, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, Madison, WI, United States, Simon Brewer, University of Utah, School of Environment, Society, and Sustainability, Salt Lake City, United States, Walter Finsinger, University of Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, Thomas Giesecke, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany, Alejandro Ordonez, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark and John W Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geography & Center for Climatic Research, Madison, United States
Distribution Patterns of the altitudinal belts in the Qinling-Daba Mountains (385839)
Fang Zhao, College of Environment and Planning, Henan University, Kaifeng, China
Integrating ECOTONE and WEMO models to simulate the evolution of vegetation pattern impacted by sediment movement (395895)
Junzhe Zhang and Greg S Okin, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Vegetation dynamics and its response to drought in the Inner Mongolia of northern China during 1998-2013 (402275)
Shulin Liu1, Tao Wang2, Wenping Kang2, Zichen Guo2, Xiang Chen2 and Xueqin Zhang2, (1)Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (2)Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
Albedo, LAI, and FAPAR satellite-derived ECVs from EUMETSAT LSA-SAF and ECMWF COPERNICUS (408733)
Dominique Carrer1, Alexander Verger2, Javier García Haro3, Florian Pinault1, Xavier Ceamanos1, Catherine Meurey1, Suman Moparthy1,4, Chloé Vincent1, Gabriel Lellouch1, Sandra Coelho5, Fernando camacho De Coca6, Else Swinnen7, Iskander Benhadj7 and Isabel Trigo8, (1)CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, Toulouse, France, (2)CREAF, Global Change Ecology Unit, Cerdanyola del Valles, Spain, (3)Universitat de València, Department of Earth Physics and Thermodynamics, València, Spain, (4)CNRM-UMR3589 (Meteo France), Toulouse, France, (5)Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Lisbon, Portugal, (6)EOLAB, Valencia, Spain, (7)VITO, Mol, Belgium, (8)IPMA, Lisboa, Portugal
Evaluation of competing vegetation-hydroclimate interactions under elevated CO2 concentrations (418109)
Sonali Shukla McDermid, New York University, New York, NY, United States, Benjamin I Cook, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, Justin S Mankin, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States and Park Williams, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States
Improving vegetation response to drought stress in earth system models (427059)
Linnia R Hawkins1, David E Rupp2, Sihan Li3, Doug J McNeall4, Sparrow Sarah3, Philip Mote2, David Wallom5 and Richard Arthur Betts4, (1)Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)Oxford e-Research Centre, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom, (4)Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom, (5)University of Oxford, OeRC, Oxford, United Kingdom
On the drying trends over Egypt using Harmonic Analysis of the Enhanced Vegetation Index (428057)
Hesham Mohamed El-Askary1, Dr. Wenzhao Li2 and Mohamed Allali1, (1)Chapman University, Orange, CA, United States, (2)Chapman University, Schmid College of Science and Technology, Orange, CA, United States
Analysis of topographic effects on global surface BRDF/Albedo (429480)
Shengbiao Wu, RADI Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Jianguang Wen, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
High sensitivity of ecosystem carbon fluxes to elevated atmospheric CO2 in Tibetan alpine meadow (435974)
Yangjian Zhang, Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Surface albedo intercomparisons from global satellite products and climate models simulations (436021)
Tao He, Wuhan University, School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan, China
Coastal Ecosystems Bring Many Societal Benefits but may be Vulnerable to Increasing Intensity Hurricanes (437730)
Hannah C Turner, University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, Burlington, United States and Gillian L Galford, University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, Burlington, VT, United States
Evaluating the Impacts of Climate Change and Environmental Factors on the Eastern Larch Beetle in Minnesota (467105)
Sara Rae Rybak1, Mohammad Z. Al-Hamdan2 and Muhammad Barik2, (1)Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, Sturgeon Lake, MN, United States, (2)Universities Space Research Association at NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL, United States
Time-serial data cubes of NDVI for monitoring and analysis of plant phenology at regional to global scales (468534)
Min Feng1,2, Xianghong Che3, Saurabh Channan4,5, David Stoner6, A. Joshua Leffler7, Kathy Kelsey8, Stine Højlund Pedersen9, Jeffrey M Welker10 and Joseph O Sexton5,11, (1)terraPulse, Inc., Washington, MD, United States, (2)Global Land Cover Facility, University of Maryland, College Park, United States, (3)Chinese Academy of Surveying and Mapping, Beijing, China, (4)terraPulse, Inc., North Potomac, MD, United States, (5)Global Land Cover Facility, Univeristy of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (6)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (7)South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, United States, (8)University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, United States, (9)Aarhus University, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus C, Denmark, (10)University of Alaska Anchorage, Department of Biological Sciences, Anchorage, United States, (11)terraPulse, Inc., Gaithersburg, United States

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