B093
Tropical Forests Under a Changing Environment
Tropical Forests Under a Changing Environment
Session ID#: 247016
Session Description:
Tropical forests are biodiverse ecosystems that exert a critical role in the Earth system’s cycling of water, energy, carbon, trace gases and organic compounds. This session welcomes research in tropical forests using ground-based results (observational studies and manipulation experiments), remote sensing and modeling. Processes to be highlighted include the responses and feedbacks of tropical forests to: (•1)land use change, degradation, changing vegetation demographics, increased atmospheric CO2, altered rainfall and/or warming; (•2)extreme events (e.g., fire, drought, heat wave, flooding, extreme rainfall); (•3)interannual to interdecadal variability (e.g., ENSO, IOBM); (•4)changes in biodiversity, biogeochemistry (including leaf, nutrient limitation, soil respiration, and carbon sequestration), and ecological processes (including phenology, demography, biogeography).We encourage submissions from a wide range of perspectives, and especially integrative research toward a more holistic view of tropical forest responses to global change. Studies comparing and contrasting responses within biomes and across continents are particularly welcome.
Index Terms:
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0429 Climate dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
3374 Tropical meteorology [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener: Robinson I Negron Juarez, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners: Elsa Ordway, University of California Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Alison Hoyt, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, United States and Santiago Botia, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Biogeochemical Signals, Jena, Germany
Student/Early Career Convener: Alison Hoyt, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, United States
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