B54C:
Understanding Phenological Responses and Feedbacks in Terrestrial Vegetation: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Consequences III


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Session ID#: 59984

Session Description:
Phenology is an integrated and sensitive indicator of ecosystem health and function that responds to growing conditions, disturbance, and climate change. Understanding phenological responses to environmental change across spatial and temporal scales is critical for forecasting shifts in species activity and associated changes in biogeochemical cycling, landscape dynamics, and ecological processes. This session features recent advances in characterizing the spatio-temporal patterns in vegetation phenology using a variety of methods (e.g., satellite, drones, webcams, in-situ); determining underlying mechanistic processes; developing accurate model representations of vegetation phenology; and investigating phenological implications to key land surface processes and society.  The session will also feature contributions from the USA National Phenology Network (USA-NPN), which for a decade has provided data, tools and platforms designed to advance science, support decision making, and engage a diversity of audiences -- including scientists, educators, resource managers, policy-makers, and the public -- in this exciting and emerging field.
Primary Convener:  Jitendra Kumar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Xiangtao Xu, Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY, United States and Min Chen, Carnegie Institution for Science Stanford, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, CA, United States; University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, WI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jake F Weltzin, USA National Phenology Network, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Chairs:  Jitendra Kumar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Xiangtao Xu, Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY, United States, Min Chen, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, WI, United States and Jake F Weltzin, USA National Phenology Network, Fort Collins, CO, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jake F Weltzin, USA National Phenology Network, Fort Collins, CO, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0476 Plant ecology [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0480 Remote sensing [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Resource acquisition and reproductive strategies of tropical forest in response to the ENSO cycle (386359)
Matteo Detto1, S Joseph Wright2 and Helene C Muller-Landau2, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panama
Exploring the responses of structural and physiological phenology to climate and nutrient availability jointly using near-infrared enabled digital cameras and eddy covariance (429701)
Yunpeng Luo, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Using Citizen Science and National Scale Monitoring Programs to Understand Drivers of Plant Phenology Across the U.S. (Invited) (408745)
Sarah Elmendorf, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Addressing Arctic-Boreal Plant Functional Type biases in carbon cycling in the Community Land Model (465213)
Leah Birch1, Gretchen Keppel-Aleks2, Christopher R Schwalm1, Xin Lin3 and Brendan M Rogers4, (1)Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (3)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France, (4)University of California Irvine, Irvine, United States
Phenological improvement of ELM and its feedbacks to terrestrial hydrological cycle (411937)
Jiafu Mao1, Lin Meng2, Xiaoying Shi3, Daniel M Ricciuto1, Peter E Thornton4, Yuyu Zhou5, Paul J Hanson6 and A Stephen S Richardson7, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Vanderbilt University, Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Nashville, TN, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States, (5)Iowa State University, Dept. of Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, United States, (6)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (7)Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, United States
Northern Hemisphere patterns of land surface phenology in a state-of-the-art climate model and remote sensing (423663)
Xiaolu Li, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States, Eli K Melaas, Boston University, Department of Earth & Environment, Boston, MA, United States, Toby Ault, Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, Ithaca, NY, United States, Carlos M. Carrillo, Cornell University, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, NY, United States, Mark A Friedl, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States and A Stephen S Richardson, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, United States
Improving the Monitoring of Vegetation Phenology Using the New Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-16) (419556)
Kathryn Isabel Wheeler, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States and Michael Dietze, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States

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