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Session Proposal: Forest Ecophysiology: Forest Physiological and Ecological Processes from Molecules to Ecosystems (AGU25)

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Forest Ecophysiology: Forest Physiological and Ecological Processes from Molecules to Ecosystems

Session ID#: 246685

Session Description:
Forests occupy ~30% of Earth's terrestrial surface, but account for ~50% of terrestrial plant productivity, ~45% of terrestrial carbon storage, and play similarly (disproportionately) important roles in other global biogeochemical cycles, thus providing myriad ecosystem services. Understanding how abiotic and biotic factors influence the physiology of forest organisms, and how physiological mechanisms regulate ecosystem processes and biogeochemical cycles (i.e., forest ecophysiology) is key to maintaining ecosystem services under intensifying natural and anthropogenic pressures. Forest organisms range 22 orders of magnitude in mass from the tiniest microbes to the largest trees and ecophysiological techniques measure processes at spatial scales that span even more orders of magnitude in size from tracing individual molecules to satellite imagery of regional, continental, and global landscapes. In this session, we broadly explore current research designed to improve our understanding of interactions between forest physiological mechanisms and ecosystemprocesses in both managed and unmanaged forest ecosystems worldwide.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener:  Doug P Aubrey, University of Georgia, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Athens, GA, United States
Conveners:  Daniel M. Johnson, University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Athens, GA, United States and William M. Hammond, University of Florida, Agronomy Department, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Caren Mendonca, University of Georgia, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Athens, GA, United States
 
Coordination of Whole-Tree Water Transport and Storage Is More Synchronized in Mesic Than Semi-Arid Species (Invited) (1848412)
Lauren Tucker1, Keith Reinhardt1, Daniel M. Johnson2, Ryan Emanuel3, Kevan Minick4, Jennie Bahramian5, David Love6 and Justine Rojas7, (1)Idaho State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Pocatello, United States, (2)University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Athens, GA, United States, (3)Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, United States, (4)North Carolina State University, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, Raleigh, NC, United States, (5)Duke University, Durham, United States, (6)Snow College, Ephraim, United States, (7)University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Athens, United States
 
Environmental changes recorded in tree-ring width of the Norway spruce (Picea abies L.) growing in the Śnieżnik Massif (S Poland) (1849881)
Anna Cedro, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland and Ryszard K. Borówka, Bernard Cedro, Wojciech Drzewicki
 
Long-term Impacts of Prescribed Fire Return Intervals on Tree Growth and Forest Structure (1862087)
Doug P Aubrey, University of Georgia, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Athens, GA, United States, Joseph O'Brien, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Athens Prescribed Fire Science Laboratory, Athens, United States and Jack Taylor, University of Georgia, Athens, United States
 
Tree growth represents a small sink for newly fixed carbon (1863154)
Steven Kannenberg1, Flurin Babst2, Mallory Barnes3, Antoine Cabon4, Matthew P Dannenberg5, Miriam Johnston6, William Anderegg7, William Wright2, James Ehleringer7 and Russell Monson8, (1)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, (3)Indiana University, Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, United States, (4)Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, (5)University of Iowa, School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability, Iowa City, United States, (6)University of Maryland, Frostburg, United States, (7)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States, (8)University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
 
Forest response to dam removal (1868735)
Katieanne Peterson1, Rose Oelkers1 and Dr. Hung Tan Thai Nguyen, PhD2, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Earth Science and Environmental Change, Urbana, United States, (2)University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States
 
Putting soil waterlogging into stomatal conductance models (Invited) (1868880)
Brett Wolfe, Louisiana State University, School of Renewable Natural Resources, Baton Rouge, United States and Marisa Brennan, Louisiana State University, School of Renewable Natural Resources, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
 
The Long-term Effects of Forest Thinning on Xylem Vessel Anatomy in a Temperate Deciduous Forest (1878993)
Cameron Dow, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States and Steve Kannenberg, West Virginia University, Morgantown, United States
 
Hydrological Dynamics in Developing Forest Stands (1891529)
Caren Mendonca1, C Rhett Jackson2 and Doug P Aubrey1, (1)University of Georgia, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Athens, GA, United States, (2)University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Athens, GA, United States
 
Myriad Ecophysiological Responses of Boreal Plants to 10 Years of Whole Ecosystem Warming and CO2 (1903555)
Jeff Warren1, Mirindi Eric Dusenge2, Jennifer Peters3, Misha Krassovski1, Jordan Noce4, Kyle J Pearson5, Jaden Lau6, Andrew D Richardson7,8, Madeline Balog9, Daniel M Ricciuto5, Angela Seibert10, Josh Enterkine11, Nancy F Glenn12 and Paul J Hanson5, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, (3)New Mexico State University, Mora, United States, (4)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, United States, (5)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States, (6)Cornell University, Ithaca, United States, (7)School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA; Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA, Cambridge, United States, (8)Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems & Center for Ecosystem Science and Society; Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA, Flagstaff, United States, (9)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, (10)Boise State University, Department of Geosciences, Boise, ID, United States, (11)Boise State University, Geosciences, Boise, United States, (12)Boise State Univ, Boise, United States
 
Coastal Pine Ecophysiology and Successional Dynamics Under Chronic Salinization (1922677)
Charles Pell1, Bryant Miller1 and Georgianne W Moore2, (1)Georgia Southern University, Department of Biology, Statesboro, GA, United States, (2)Georgia Southern University, Department of Biology, Statesboro, United States
 
Impact of Salt Stress on Leaf Physiology of Pine Saplings (1923118)
Bryant Miller1, Charles Pell1 and Georgianne W Moore2, (1)Georgia Southern University, Department of Biology, Statesboro, GA, United States, (2)Georgia Southern University, Department of Biology, Statesboro, United States
 
Linking Turgor Loss Point to Tree Ring Growth Rates across a Latitudinal Gradient in the Eastern United States to Assess Differences in Inter- and Intraspecific Responses to Drought (1936016)
Vandy Vandewater1, Jack Hastings1, Matthew A Vadeboncoeur1, Helen Czech2, Patience Knight2, Keshav Ghimire2, Elijah Tetreault3, John Dionis4, Arielle Kotulak4, Dawn Lemke2, Scott V Ollinger1 and Jess Gersony5, (1)University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, United States, (2)Alabama A & M University, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Normal, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire, Department of Earth Science, Durham, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Durham, United States, (5)Smith College, Department of Biological Sciences, Northampton, United States
 
Coupling continuous water potential and electrical resistivity tomography observations provides novel insight on the seasonal controls of whole-plant conductivity limiting tree and forest gas exchange (1945277)
Daniel Patrick Beverly, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, Andy Parsekian, University of Wyoming, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, United States, Alex Crookshanks, Columbia University, New York, United States, Richard P Phillips, Indiana University, Department of Biology, Bloomington, IN, United States and Kimberly Novick, Indiana University, Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, United States
 
Chlorophyll a Fluorescence as a Tool for Rapid, High-Throughput Assessment of Post-Fire Tree Foliage Mortality (1946444)
Jennifer McDaniel, University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Athens, United States, Joseph O'Brien, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Athens Prescribed Fire Science Laboratory, Athens, United States, Daniel M. Johnson, University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Athens, GA, United States and Doug P Aubrey, University of Georgia, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Athens, GA, United States
 
Plant Latex Resilience; A Vein-level Defense Strategy in Latex Producing Species (1949086)
Mickey Boakye, University of California Berkeley, ESPM, Berkeley, United States, Beatrice Cundiff, Yale University, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, United States and Benjamin Blonder, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
 
Tree Growth and Its Climate Signal Along a Latitudinal Gradient: Comparison of Contiguous and Disjunct Populations of Tsuga Canadensis in the Eastern US (1949761)
Macarena Ferriz Nunez, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, Justin T. Maxwell, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States, Grant L. Harley, University of Idaho, Department of Earth and Spatial Sciences, Moscow, United States and Karen King, University of Tennessee, Department of Geography and Sustainability, Knoxville, TN, United States
 
Species-Specific Responses to Ecosystem Warming May Lead to Greater or Lesser Vulnerability to Cold Damage (1957338)
Francisco Campos-Arguedas1, Michael North2 and Al Kovaleski2, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences, Madison, WI, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences, Madison, United States
 
Impacts of an Early Growing Season Prescribed Burn on Hydraulics of Pinus palustris, Quercus laevis, and Quercus margaretta saplings (1958795)
Virginia Hudspeth, University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Athens, United States, Daniel M. Johnson, University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Athens, GA, United States and Steven T Brantley, Jones Center at Ichauway, Newton, United States
 
Divergent Hydraulic Strategies in Boreal Peatland Tree Species Affect Leaf Temperature And Carbon Uptake (1959764)
Madeline Balog, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, Jeffrey Warren, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, Samantha Colunga, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, United States, Misha Krassovski, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Kyle J Pearson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States
 
Differentiating Structural and Non-Structural Carbon Using Ecosystem Carbon Flux Measurements (1963573)
Benju Baniya1, Dohee Kim1, Malik Nkrumah1, Clement Sarpong1, Moeka Ono1, Jiaojiao Dong1, Guofang Miao2 and Asko Noormets1, (1)Texas A&M University, Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology, College Station, United States, (2)Fujian Normal University, School of Geographical Sciences, Fuzhou, China
 
The Role of Hydrologic Intensification in Ecosystem Recovery from Flash Drought Induced Acute Water Stress Across the Western United States (1969032)
Anam Khan, Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, Kiona Ogle, Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, United States, Paul C. Stoy, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Biological Systems Engineering / Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, United States and Drew Peltier, University of Nevada Las Vegas, School Of Life Sciences, Las Vegas, United States
 
Evaluating Climatic and Environmental Drivers of Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) Growth Using Hourly Point Dendrometer Data (1980823)
Lily Klinek, University of California Davis, Department of Plant Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, Mukund Rao, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Biology and Paleo Environment, Palisades, NY, United States, Milagros Rodriguez-Caton, CONICET Argentina, Instituto Argentino de Nivologia, Glaciologia y Ciencias Ambientales, Mendoza, Argentina, Kosana Suvocarev, University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States, Housen Chu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, Kyaw Tha Paw U, University of California Davis, Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, Davis, United States and Troy Magney, University of Montana, W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation, Missoula, United States
 
Divergence in functional strategies between two widespread boreal conifers in response to warming and CO2 (1981395)
Yanjun Song, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
 
Poleward Forest Migration that Affects Light Competition and Tree Fecundity: Evidence from a Continental Comparison (1983331)
Miao Hu, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States and James S Clark, Duke University, Nicholas School of Environment, Department of Statistical Science, Durham, NC, United States
 
Hyperspectral LiDAR fusion for forest drought monitoring (1991959)
Jean Allen, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Leander DL Anderegg, University of California Santa Barbara, Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology, Santa Barbara, United States, Dar A Roberts, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States and Anna T Trugman, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States
 
Acquisitive fine root strategy could predispose yellow-cedar to climate change induced decline (1994562)
Milos Simovic and Sean T Michaletz, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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