GC11F:
Dynamics, Driving Factors, and Consequences of Forests, Industrial Plantations, and Woody Plant Encroachment Posters


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Session ID#: 51355

Session Description:
Large areas of natural forests have been converted into industrial tree and cash crops. Woody plant encroachment (WPE) into native grasslands have also occurred globally. The resultant spatial-temporal dynamics of natural forests, industrial tree and cash crops and WPE have substantial impacts on carbon and water cycles from local to global scales under human activities and climate change. This session aims to highlight recent activities that map and characterize the spatial-temporal dynamics of natural forests, industrial plantations and WPE. It welcome diverse contributions that (1) use multi-sensor and/or time series remote sensing data to generate annual maps of natural forests, industrial plantations, and WPE in the last few decades; (2) analyze climate, socio-economic, and policy factors that drive observed spatial-temporal dynamics of natural forests, industrial plantations, and WPE; and (3) assess the consequences (e.g., carbon and water cycles) of observed spatial-temporal dynamics of natural forests, industrial plantations, and WPE .
Primary Convener:  Yuanwei Qin, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Center for Earth Observation and Modeling, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States
Conveners:  Jie Wang, College of Grassland Science and Technology,China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Xiangming Xiao, School of Biological Sciences, Center for Earth Observation and Modeling, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States and Jinwei Dong, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Primary Liaison:  Yuanwei Qin, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Center for Earth Observation and Modeling, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States
Chairs:  Jie Wang, College of Grassland Science and Technology,China Agricultural University, Beijing, China and Jinwei Dong, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
OSPA Liaison:  Yuanwei Qin, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Center for Earth Observation and Modeling, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States
Index Terms:

0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Non-linear shift from grassland to shrubland in temperate barrier islands (361604)
Heng Huang1, Julie C Zinnert2, Lauren Wood3, Donald Young3 and Paolo D'Odorico1, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Biology, Richmond, VA, United States, (3)Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States
Resistance, resilience, and recovery of gross primary production of forests and grasslands to drought in the Ouachita Highlands of Oklahoma, USA (370603)
Russell Doughty1, Xiangming Xiao2, Xiaocui Wu3, Yao Zhang4, Yuanwei Qin5, Jon Giddens6, Heather R McCarthy3, Jennifer Koch7, Jeffrey B Basara8 and Robert Heinemann9, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, United States, (2)School of Biological Sciences, Center for Earth Observation and Modeling, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, OK, United States, (4)Columbia University of New York, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, NY, United States, (5)Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Center for Earth Observation and Modeling, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, (6)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, OK, United States, (7)University of Oklahoma, Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, OK, United States, (8)University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology; School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Norman, United States, (9)Oklahoma State University, Kiamichi Forestry Research Station, Idabel, OK, United States
A Satellite-based method for mapping irrigated areas in Northeast China using moderate-resolution satellite data and statistical data (377651)
Kunlun Xiang, Sun Yat-Sen University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Guangzhou, China and Wenping Yuan, Sun Yat-sen University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Guangzhou, China
The climatic effects of cropland abandonment and forestation in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, China (387678)
Xuezhen Zhang, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Caishan Zhao, Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Monitoring of Geographic Environment, Harbin Normal University, Harbin, China
The small low island two-step: Mapping coconut legacies in the central Pacific Ocean. (462132)
Mary Engels, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States and Robert Heinse, University of Idaho-PSES, Moscow, ID, United States
Global forest mapping through the integration of microwave and optical remote sensing (466009)
Yuanwei Qin, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Center for Earth Observation and Modeling, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, Xiangming Xiao, School of Biological Sciences, Center for Earth Observation and Modeling, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, Jinwei Dong, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Jie Wang, College of Grassland Science and Technology,China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Bangqian Chen, Organization Not Listed, Danzhou, China; Danzhou Investigation & Experiment Station of Tropical Cops, Ministry of Agriculture, Rubber Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS), Danzhou, China and Zhenhua Zou, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States
Understanding Juniper Forest Encroachment into Grasslands and the Impacts on Primary Production, Evapotranspiration, and Climate (466895)
Jie Wang, College of Grassland Science and Technology,China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Xiangming Xiao, School of Biological Sciences, Center for Earth Observation and Modeling, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, Yuanwei Qin, University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, Zhenhua Zou, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States and Xiaocui Wu, University of Oklahoma, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, OK, United States

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