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Session Proposal: Tropical Forests Under a Changing Environment (AGU25)

B093
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
 
Politique d'Aménagement des Espaces Verts et Réduction des îlots de Charleur dans la Ville de Yaoundé au Cameroun Auteur: Christiane Guillaine NIMPA NGUEMO, Hervé TCHEKOTE, Aristide YEMMAFOUO (1849720)
Nimpa Christiane1, Tchekote Hervé Pr2 and Yemmafouo Aristide Pr2, (1)Université de Bamenda, Géographie et aménagement, Bambili, Cameroon, (2)Université de Dschang, Géographie, Dschang, Cameroon
 
Benchmarking Carbon Estimates in Miombo Woodlands: Integrating NASA GEDI Lidar with Global Biomass Mapping Products for Improved Carbon Stock Assessment (1851301)
Kalu Ngele Okigwe, Clark University, Graduate School of Geography, Worcester, MA, United States and By Kalu Okigwe, Pacifique Madibi, Rui Zhang, Andre Bergeron Supervisor: Professor John Rogan Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA
 
A data overview of the CongoFlux ecosystem site in the central Congo basin (Yangambi, DR Congo) (1851582)
Pascal F M Boeckx, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium and Ghent University Congo Basin Centre of Expertise: cbce.ugent.be
 
 
Drought Amplifies Microclimatic Edge Effects and Increases Trees' Water Stress in an Amazon–Cerrado Forest Edge (1864890)
Lachlan Byrnes, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, Dr. Leandro Maracahipes, PhD, Yale University, Yale School of the Environment, New Haven, United States, Leonardo Maracahipes-Santos, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM), Canarana, Brazil, Antônio Carlos Silveiro da Silva, IPAM Amazon Environmental Research Institute, Canarana, Brazil and Paulo M Brando, Yale University, School of the Environment, New Haven, United States
 
Dynamic interpretation of tree-level sapflow response to environmental changes in the Amazon Rainforest (1874076)
Taeho Kim1, Tyeen Taylor2, Elizabeth Agee3, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe4, Kleber Silva Campos5, Neill Prohaska4, Loren Albert6, Michela Figueira5, Jose Mauro Sousa Moura5, Sávio Ferreira7, Renato Senna7, Raimundo Cosme Oliveira Junior8, Marciel José Ferreira9, Joao Victor Figueiredo Cardoso Rodrigues9, Thamilles Souza5 and Valeriy Yu Ivanov1, (1)University of Michigan, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (2)The Operator’s Manual for the Planet (The OMP LLC), London, United Kingdom, (3)Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Department of Energy, Knoxville, United States, (4)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, United States, (5)Federal University of Western Pará, Santarem, Brazil, (6)University of West Virginia, Morgantown, United States, (7)Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil, (8)Embrapa Amazônia Oriental, Santarém, Brazil, (9)Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Manaus, Brazil
 
Vegetation Water Dynamics During Severe Amazon Droughts from Remote Sensing Observations (1874875)
Kyeungwoo Cho1, Robinson I Negron Juarez2, Andreas Colliander3, Valeriy Yu Ivanov4, Jeffrey Q Chambers5 and Jingfeng Wang1, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)University of Michigan, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
 
Intercontinental Differences in Tropical Rainforest Dynamics: Insights from ELM-FATES Simulations (1875066)
Danyang Yu1, Marcos Longo2, Paul R Moorcroft3, Robinson I Negron Juarez4, Jennifer A. Holm5, Jennifer Kowalczyk6, Hans Verbeeck7, Steven De Hertog8, Xiangtao Xu9, Yixin Ma10, Damien Bonal11, Scott Saleska12, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe12 and Ying SUN1, (1)Cornell University, School of Integrative Plant Science, Soil and Crop Sciences Section, Ithaca, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (3)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)Brown University, Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, United States, (7)Ghent University, CAVELab - Computational and Applied Vegetation Ecology, Gent, Belgium, (8)Ghent University, Gent, Belgium, (9)Cornell University, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, United States, (10)Cornell University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY, United States, (11)Université de Lorraine, AgroParisTech, INRAE, UMR Silva, Nancy, France, (12)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, United States
 
Congo Basin tropical forest ecosystem function and responses to global change across scales (1880194)
Elsa Ordway1, Nicolas Barbier2, Sumalika Biswas3, Serge Assola4, Ruksan Bose5, Vincent Deblauwe6, Fanny Djomkam7, Benis Egoh8, Germain Chuissi-Kameni4, Antonio Ferraz9, Stephane Momo4, Bastien Dehaudt10, Nicholas Russo11, Morgan Dean12, Sassan S Saatchi13, Bertrand Endezoumou14, Fabian Schneider15, Ernest Simpoh5, Thomas B Smith12, Bonaventure Sonké16, Mody Lacour8, Hannah Stouter17, Pierre Ploton18, Gilbert Oum Ndjock14, Antoine Tekam16, Sarah R Worden12, Epie Njume19 and Virginia Zaunbrecher12, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)IRD Institute for Research and Development, AMAP, Marseille Cedex 02, France, (3)Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, United States, (4)Congo Basin Institute, Yaounde, Cameroon, (5)Congo Basin Institute/International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Yaoundé, Cameroon, (6)University of California Los Angeles/Congo Basin Institute, Los Angeles, United States, (7)Congo Basin Institute/International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Yaounde, Cameroon, (8)University of California Irvine, Irvine, United States, (9)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (10)University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, (11)Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, (12)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (13)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems/Earth Science, Pasadena, United States, (14)Ministry of Forests and Fauna, Yaounde, Cameroon, (15)Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark, (16)University of Yaoundé, Yaoundé, Cameroon, (17)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (18)IRD Institute for Research and Development AMAP, Montpellier, France, (19)University of California Irvine, Dept. of Earth System Sciences, Irvine, United States
 
Cooling Feedbacks from Amazon Deforestation: An All-Sky Biophysical Perspective (1880695)
Tom Dror, CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States and Graham Feingold, NOAA CSL, Boulder, United States
 
Investigating Tropical Forest Water Storage Dynamics across Climate and Topographic Gradients (1881535)
Conall O'Leary1, David Carchipulla-Morales1 and Lauren Lowman2, (1)Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, United States, (2)Wake Forest University, Department of Engineering, Winston-Salem, NC, United States
 
Modeling Edge Effects and Post-fire Recovery on Carbon and Water fluxes in the Amazon with FATES (1882003)
Xiuyi Wu1, Lin Meng2, Paulo M Brando3, Marcos Longo4, Charles Koven4, Jennifer Kowalczyk5, Huidong Li2 and Jeffrey Q Chambers6, (1)Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States, (2)Vanderbilt University, Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Nashville, United States, (3)Yale University, School of the Environment, New Haven, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States
 
Characterizing vegetation structure across Earth’s tropical forests (1882400)
Wantong Li and Trevor Keenan, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, United States
 
Functional Trait Trade-offs Shape Tree Strategies in Wet and Dry Tropics: Insights from FATES-Hydro Simulations (1884435)
Junyan Ding1, Nathan McDowell2, Eugenie Mas3, Chonggang Xu4, Alexandria Lynn Pivovaroff5, Charlie Koven6, Nurfarah Aqilah7, Stuart J Davies8, Yao Tze Leong7 and Junyan Ding9,10, (1)Occidental College, Los Angeles, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (3)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Washington, D.C., United States, (4)Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, United States, (5)Occidental College, Department of Biology, Los Angeles, United States, (6)University of Miami, Miami, United States, (7)Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Kepong, Malaysia, (8)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Forest Global Earth Observatory, Washington DC, United States, (9)Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (10)Occidental college, Los Angeles, United States
 
Fire Dynamics in the Congo Basin: Knowns and Unknowns (1890602)
Hannah Stouter1, Elsa Ordway2, Douglas C Morton3, Shane Coffield4, Paulo M Brando5, Isabella Zouh6, Landing Mané7, Patrick Forghab6, Denis Sonwa8 and Florence Palla9, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)University of Chicago, Chicago, United States, (5)Yale University, School of the Environment, New Haven, United States, (6)Observatoire National sur les Changements Climatiques, Yaounde, Cameroon, (7)OSFAC, Kinshasa, Congo, (8)World Resources Institute, Yaounde, Cameroon, (9)Central African Forest Observatory, Yaounde, Cameroon
 
High Resolution Study of Microclimatic Differences in Various Plant Zones on San Cristóbal Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (1897271)
Steven Schultze1, Katherine Krontiras2, Abigail Kratsch2, Jade Martin3, Francisco Laso4, Nazaret Narvaez5 and Luis Tasipanta5, (1)University of South Alabama, Earth Sciences, Mobile, AL, United States, (2)University of South Alabama, Earth Sciences, Mobile, United States, (3)Syracuse University, Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, Syracuse, United States, (4)Western Washington University, College of the Environment, Bellingham, United States, (5)Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Galápagos Science Center, Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, Ecuador
 
Variations in Xylem Chemical Composition Across the Amazon Basin Are Mediated by Wood Density and Environmental Gradients (1898526)
Manolo Quintilhan1, Demetrius Lira-Martins1,2, Caroline Signori-Müller3, Julia V Tavares4, David Galbraith5, Rafael S Oliveira6, Beatriz Marimon7, Beto Quesada8, Lucas Silva9 and Peter Groenendijk1, (1)UNICAMP State University of Campinas, Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, Campinas, Brazil, (2)Earthshot Labs PBC, Mill Valley, United States, (3)University of Exeter, Department of Geography, Exeter, United Kingdom, (4)Uppsala University, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala, Sweden, (5)University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, United Kingdom, (6)University of Campinas, Department of Plant Biology, Campinas, Brazil, (7)UNEMAT University of State of Mato Grosso, Nova Xavantina, Brazil, (8)National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA), Manaus, Brazil, (9)University of Oregon, Environmental Studies Program, Department of Biology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Eugene, United States
 
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Measurements of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (BVOCs) over Two Forest Types in Central Amazonia Reveal Contrasting Responses to the Severe 2023–2024 Drought (1909386)
Eliane Gomes Alves1, Raoni aquino silva de Santana2, Michelle Robin1, Débora Pinheiro Oliveira3, Joseph Byron4, Jonathan Williams5, Flávia Durgante Machado6, Hilana Hadlich7, Caroline Mallmann8, Layon Demarchi9, Maria Teresa Fernandez Piedade9, Jochen Shongart SR9, Florian Wittmann6 and Cleo Q Dias-Junior10, (1)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Jena, Germany, (2)Federal University of Western Pará, Santarém, Brazil, (3)USP University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, (4)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Department of Atmospheric Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, (5)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Atmospheric Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, (6)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, (7)INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil, (8)UFSM Federal University of Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil, (9)National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA), Ecology, monitoring and sustainable use of wetlands (MAUA research group), Manaus, Brazil, (10)Federal Institute of Para, Belem, Brazil
 
Deciduousness reveals diverse phenological processes in the Amazon rainforest (1913204)
Guangqin Song1, Alice Hughes1, Xu Lian2, Xiang Zeng1, Alfredo R Huete3, Loren Albert4, Xiangtao Xu5, Josep Penuelas6, Constantin Zohner7, Bruce W Nelson8, Shuli Chen9, Matteo Detto10, Zhengfei Guo1, Xing Li11, Ziyu Lin1, Yadvinder Malhi12, Scott Saleska13, Yanjun Su14, Jingfeng Xiao15, Yingyi Zhao1, Peng Zhu16, Lingli Liu14 and Jin Wu1, (1)The University of Hong Kong, School of Biological Sciences, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (2)Peking University, Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Science, Ultimo, NSW, Australia, (4)Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, (5)Cornell University, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, United States, (6)CREAF, Cerdanyola Del Valle, Spain, (7)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (8)INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil, (9)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (10)Princeton University, Princeton, United States, (11)Sun Yat-sen University, The School of Geography and Planning, Guangzhou, China, (12)University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, (13)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, United States, (14)Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (15)University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, United States, (16)The University of Hong Kong, Department of Geography, Hong Kong, China
 
Remote sensing for biodiversity in tropical forest habitats: navigating data complexity to connect signals of ecological integrity across scales (1918082)
Iryna Dronova1, Mel Baldino2, Rosemary Gillespie2, Natalie Graham3, Daniel Gruner4, Olivia Jarvis3, Isaac Overcast5, Joseph Percival6, Ryan L Perroy7, Jonathan Price3 and George Roderick2, (1)University of California Berkeley, Depts. of Environmental Science, Policy & Management and Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, HI, United States, (4)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (5)Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, (6)University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, United States, (7)University of Hawaii at Hilo, Geography and Environmental Science, Hilo, United States
 
Using simulated rainfall on large leaves growing in neotropical climates to determine convergent or divergent water flow paths among tree species (1920386)
Pedro Mendoza-Zamora, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States, Georgianne W Moore, Georgia Southern University, Department of Biology, Statesboro, United States, Stephanie Restrepo, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, United States, Thomas G. Pypker, Thomas Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada, Charles Pell, Georgia Southern University, Department of Biology, Statesboro, GA, United States, James K Brumbelow, Texas A&M University College Station, Civil & Environmental Engineering, College Station, United States and A. Peyton Smith, Texas A&M University College Station, Soil and Crop Science, College Station, TX, United States
 
Land use impacts on tropical soil aggregate structure and its effects on hydrological properties (1920496)
Vicktoria Holdaway, Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Stillwater, OK, United States, Salvatore Calabrese, Texas A&M University, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, College Station, United States, Julie A. Howe, Texas A&M University, Soil and Crop Sciences, College Station, TX, United States, Kayla Mitchell, University of Washington Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, UNITED STATES, James K Brumbelow, Texas A&M University College Station, Civil & Environmental Engineering, College Station, United States and A. Peyton Smith, Texas A&M University College Station, Soil and Crop Science, College Station, TX, United States
 
Soil Aggregation Effects on Water Movement and Nutrient Dynamics Across Three Costa Rican Land Uses (1920809)
Kayla Mitchell, University of Washington Tacoma, Tacoma, WA, UNITED STATES, Vicktoria Holdaway, Oklahoma State University Main Campus, Stillwater, OK, United States, Julie A. Howe, Texas A&M University, Soil and Crop Sciences, College Station, TX, United States, Salvatore Calabrese, Texas A&M University, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, College Station, United States, James K Brumbelow, Texas A&M University College Station, Civil & Environmental Engineering, College Station, United States and A. Peyton Smith, Texas A&M University College Station, Soil and Crop Science, College Station, TX, United States
 
Uncovering the Impact of Leaf Cutter Ants Nesting Activity on Soil Biogeochemical Properties in a Tropical Forest Plantation (1920896)
Bailey Castaneda, University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, S'vani Campos, Texas A&M University College Station, Soil and Crop Science, College Station, United States, James K Brumbelow, Texas A&M University College Station, Civil & Environmental Engineering, College Station, United States, A. Peyton Smith, Texas A&M University College Station, Soil and Crop Science, College Station, TX, United States and Felipe Aburto, Texas A&M University College Station, Soil and Crop Sciences, College Station, United States
 
Legacies of Indigenous Land Use in Contemporary Forests and their implications for Amazonian Forest Resilience (1921999)
Vinicius Peripato1, Carolina Levis2, Luiz E. O. C. Aragão3, Dani Gamerman4,5, Laura Teixeira5, Guido Moreira6, Adriana Maria da Silva7, Jonas Gregório8, Manolo Quintilhan9, Henrique Pose Guerra10,11 and Lucas Silva12, (1)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (2)UFSC Federal University of Santa Catarina, Postgraduate Program in Ecology, Florianópolis, Brazil, (3)National Institute for Space Research, São José dos Campos, Brazil, (4)UFRJ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Institute of Mathematics, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, (5)UFMG Federal University of Minas Gerais, Department of Statistics, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, (6)University of Minho, Center for Molecular and Environmental Biology, Braga, Portugal, (7)UFU Federal University of Uberlândia, Institute of Geography, Uberlandia, Brazil, (8)UFP Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Culture, Archaeology, and Socio-Ecological Dynamics Research Group, Barcelona, Spain, (9)UNICAMP State University of Campinas, Department of Plant Biology, Institute of Biology, Campinas, Brazil, (10)USP University of Sao Paulo, Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, São Paulo, Brazil, (11)UNB University of Brasilia, Asa Norte, Brazil, (12)University of Oregon, Environmental Studies Program, Department of Biology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Eugene, United States
 
Managed forests support higher carbon density and sequestration in the Congo basin (1923477)
Le Bienfaiteur Sagang Takougoum1, Ricardo Dalagnol2, Stephanie George-Chacon3, Samuel Favrichon4, Shuang Li2, Fabien Wagner5, Zhihua Liu2, Dafeng Zhang6, Alfred Ngomanda7, Vincent Medjibe8, Bonaventure Sonké9, Nicolas Barbier10, Elsa Ordway11, Dr. Sassan Saatchi12, Lee White13 and Zhihua Liu, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)CTrees, Pasadena, United States, (3)Ctrees, Pasadena, United States, (4)Gamma Remote Sensing, Guemligen, Switzerland, (5)Ecosystem Research Team, CTrees.org, Pasadena, California, USA, Pasadena, United States, (6)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (7)CENAREST, Libreville, Gabon, (8)Independent Researcher, Libreville, Gabon, (9)University of Yaoundé, Yaoundé, Cameroon, (10)IRD Institute for Research and Development, AMAP, Marseille Cedex 02, France, (11)University of California Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (12)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (13)UK, UK, United Kingdom
 
Trait mediated -continental-level responses of tropical forest vegetation to future climate change (1933336)
Andres Baresch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States; University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, Benjamin Poulter, Spark Climate Solutions, San Francisco, United States, Adam Chlus, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Fabian Schneider, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark, Dr. Shawn Serbin, BA, MS, PhD, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Philip A Townsend, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, Madison, United States, Marcos Longo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, Gaia Vaglio Laurin, National Research Council, Research Institute on Terrestrial Ecosystems, Montelibretti, Italy and David Schimel, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
 
Diurnal variation in solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) and CO2 flux of a tropical forest in Malaysia (1939191)
Tomoki Morozumi1, Hibiki Noda1, Tomomichi Kato2, Tatsuya Miyauchi2, Tatsuro Nakaji3, Satoru Takanashi4, Yoshiko Kosugi5 and Marryanna Lion6, (1)NIES National Institute for Environmental Studies, Earth System Division, Tsukuba, Japan, (2)Hokkaido University, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Sapporo, Japan, (3)Hokkaido University, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Sapporo, Japan, (4)Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Kansai Research Center, Kyoto, Japan, (5)Kyoto University, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto, Japan, (6)Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
 
Tropical American Ecosystem’s Vulnerability to Atmospheric Drought Is Shaped by Hydroclimate (1944817)
Yuhao Pan1, Guangqin Song1, Yingyi Zhao1, Xiaorong Wang1, Zhengfei Guo1 and Jin Wu1,2, (1)The University of Hong Kong, School of Biological Sciences, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, (2)The University of Hong Kong, Institute of Climate and Carbon Neutrality, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
 
Monitoring emergent tropical trees with high-resolution spectral and structural data: Landscape fragmentation and Dipteryx panamensis in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. (1948954)
Felipe Saad, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Geography and Environmental Systems, Baltimore, United States, Rohit Mukherjee, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric, Climate, and Earth Sciences Division, Richland, United States and Matthew E Fagan, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States
 
Machine Learning–Driven Estimation of Site-Specific Wood Density in Tropical Forest Ecology (1952736)
Sehinde Akinbiola1, Ayomide Olubaju2, Johnson Ibukun3, Jide Ebenezer Akinsola4, Ayobami Salami5 and Olusegun Awotoye5, (1)First Technical University, Ibadan, Nigeria, (2)First Technical University. Ibadan,Nigeria, Surveying and Geoinformatics, Ibadan, Nigeria, (3)Federal University of Technology Akure, Remote sensing and Geosciences, Akure, Nigeria, (4)First Technical University, Computer Science, Ibadan, Nigeria, (5)Obafemi Awolowo University, Institute of Ecology and Environmental Studies, Ile Ife, Nigeria
 
Remotely sensing fruit presence and sugar content in complex landscapes: a case study on Barro Colorado Island, Panama (1953034)
Kate Tiedeman1, Chase Núñez2, Selina Grosse3, Lucia Torrez3, Andreas Schuerkmann3, Jayden Engert4 and Meg Crofoot3, (1)Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Burlingame, CA, UNITED STATES, (2)ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz, Germany, (4)Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior, Konstanz, Germany
 
Windthrow and Its Ecological Impacts Over the Amazon (1958172)
Mingjie Shi, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Robinson I Negron Juarez, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, United States, Chris Peterson, University of Georgia, Athens, United States, Jessica Needham, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, Jeff Chambers, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States and Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States
 
Seasonal and Species-specific Variability of Radial Stem Growth in the Congo Basin (1959868)
Patrick Namulisa, Columbia University, Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, New York, United States, Marijn Bauters, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Lodewijk Lefevre, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium, Fabrice Kimbesa, University of Kisangani, Ecologie Gestion des Ressources Naturelles, Kisangani, People's Republic Of Congo, David Ekili, CongoFlux Research Site, Yangambi, People's Republic Of Congo, Pascal F M Boeckx, Ghent University, Department of Green Chemistry and Technology, Gent, Belgium and Duncan Menge, Columbia University, New York, United States
 
Evolving the PANGEA vision for tropical forest science (1961883)
Elsa Ordway1, Isaac N Aguilar2, Ane Alencar3, Adia Bey4, Renato Kerches Braghiere2, Anabelle Cardoso5, Dana Chadwick6, Temilola Fatoyinbo7, Yanlei Feng8, Antonio Ferraz9, Jose D. Fuentes10, Peter Griffith11, Liane S Guild12, Matthew S Johnson13, Essi Kane14, Michael Keller15, Lydie Stella Koutika16, Yue Li17, Junjie Liu6, Marcos Longo18, Ian Mccubbin9, Charles E Miller19, Helene C Muller-Landau20, Félicien Meunier21, Patrick Namulisa22, Robinson I Negron Juarez23, Teodyl Nkuintchua24, Matheus Nunes25, Le Bienfaiteur Sagang Takougoum26, Maria J. Santos27, Fabian Schneider28, Marc Simard6, Bonaventure Sonké29, Hannah Stouter30, César Terrer8, Marius von Essen31, Michelle Wong32, Sarah R Worden31, Xiangming Xiao33 and Virginia Zaunbrecher31, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)IPAM Amazon Environmental Research Institute, Brasilia, Brazil, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (5)University at Buffalo, Geography, Buffalo, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Fight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (8)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, (9)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, United States, (10)Penn State University, University Park, United States, (11)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, United States, (12)NASA Ames Res Ctr, Moffett Field, United States, (13)Earth Science Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (14)University of Energy and Natural Resources,, Sunyani, Ghana, (15)USDA Forest Service, Rio Piedras, United States, (16)CRDPI, Pointe-Noire, People's Republic Of Congo, (17)University of California Los Angeles, Geography, Los Angeles, United States, (18)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, (19)California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (20)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama, (21)Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, (22)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, United States, (23)Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, United States, (24)World Resources Institute, Kinshasa, Congo, (25)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (26)University of California, Los Angeles, United States, (27)University of Zurich, Department of Geography, Zurich, Switzerland, (28)Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark, (29)University of Yaoundé, Yaoundé, Cameroon, (30)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (31)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (32)Yale University, New Haven, United States, (33)School of Biological Sciences, Center for Earth Observation and Modeling, University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States
 
Gross Primary Production and Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence in the La Selva, Costa Rica Tropical Rainforest (1966784)
Julia Bigwood1, Ulrike Seibt2, Troy Magney3, Milagros Rodriguez Caton4, Diego Dierick5, Sol Cooperdock2, Nicholas Parazoo6 and Jochen Stutz1, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (3)University of Montana, W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation, Missoula, MT, United States, (4)nstituto Argentino Nivologia, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales (IANIGLA), CCT-CONICET, Mendoza, Argentina, (5)La Selva Biological Station, Organization for Tropical Studies, Puerto Viejo de Sarapiqui, Heredia, Costa Rica, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
 
Continental Integration of Soil Water, Sap Flow, Stem Diameter and Stem Water Potential Sensors Across Tropical Forests: Science Necessity, Technical Deployment and Operational Challenges (1971611)
Jeff Warren1, Alfonso Zambrano2, Nathan McDowell3, Eugenie Mas4, Robinson I Negron Juarez5, Cynthia Wright6, Bruno Gimenez7, Nurfarah Aqilah8, Joseph Wright S.9, Cristina Santos da Silva10, Gustavo Spanner11, Valdiek da Silva Menezes11, Regison Oliveira12, Adriano Jose Nogueira Lima13, Niro Higuchi14, Jeff Chambers15 and Charles Koven16, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (4)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Washington, D.C., United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, United States, (6)USDA Forest Service, Knoxville, United States, (7)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), Balboa, Panama, (8)Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Kepong, Malaysia, (9)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Gamboa, Panama, (10)INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil, (11)Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil, (12)Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), Manaus, Brazil, (13)National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA), Forest Management Laboratory, Manaus, Brazil, (14)INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, Forest Management, Manaus, Brazil, (15)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (16)University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, United States
 
Small Persistent Clearings in Humid Forests Drive Tropical Forest Biomass Carbon Losses (1972512)
Yidi Xu1, Philippe Ciais2, Maurizio Santoro3, Clément Bourgoin4, François Ritter5, Agnes Pellissier-Tanon6, Yu Feng7, Chuanlong Zhou8, Guojin He9, Viola Heinrich10, Simon Besnard11, Nathaniel Robinson12, Susan Cook-Patton13, Jérome Chave14, Luiz Aragao15, Jean Pierre Ometto16, Simon Bowring6, Ibrahim Fayad1, Lei Zhu17, Yang Su1, Wigneron Jean-Pierre18 and Wei Li19, (1)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (2)Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris Saclay, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France, (3)Gamma Remote Sensing, Gümligen, Switzerland, (4)Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy, (5)University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, (6)Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, (7)Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China, (8)Laboratoire des Sciences du Climate et de l’Environnement LSCE, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, (9)Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (10)German Research Centre for GeoSciences (GFZ), Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Potsdam, Germany, (11)German Research Centre for GeoSciences, Potsdam, Germany, (12)CIFOR-ICRAF, Nairobi, Kenya, (13)The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, United States, (14)CNRS, Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique, Toulouse, France, (15)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Remote Sensing Division, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (16)National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Earth System Science Center, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (17)Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (18)ISPA, UMR 1391, INRA Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Villenave-d'Ornon, France, (19)Tsinghua University, Department of Earth System Science, Beijing, China
 
Exploring the Influence of Eastern Pacific and Central Pacific El Niño Events on Seasonal Vegetation Memory in the Amazon (1975207)
Maria Salazar and Gretchen Keppel-Aleks, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States
 
Combining GEDI and Landsat-based satellite forest cover loss data to improve understanding of Democratic Republic of Congo humid tropical forest regrowth and carbon sequestration (1976749)
Myung Sik Cho, Michigan State University, Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, United States, David Roy, Michigan State University, Department of Geography, Environment, & Spatial Sciences, and Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, MI, United States, Herve Kashongwe, Michigan State University, Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, MI, United States and David L Skole, Michigan State University, Department of Forestry, and the Global Observatory for Ecosystem Services, East Lansing, United States
 
Underestimation of Soil Phosphorus Sorption in the Tropics (1976776)
Kay Kennedy1, Daniela Yaffar2, Anthony P Walker3, Matthew Craig3, Thomas Mead4, Teresa Pettitt-Kenney5, Nicolas Castaño6, Stuart J Davies7, Alvaro Duque8, Sisira Ediriweera9, David Kenfack10, Daniel Zuleta7 and Melanie A Mayes11, (1)University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, United States, (3)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States, (4)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge, United States, (5)St. Olaf College, Northfield, United States, (6)Amazonic Institute of Scientific Research, Bogotá, Colombia, (7)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Forest Global Earth Observatory, Washington DC, United States, (8)National University of Colombia, Medellin, Colombia, (9)Uva Wellassa University of Sri Lanka, Department of Science and Technology, Badulla, Sri Lanka, (10)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama, (11)ORNL, Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge, United States
 
High-Resolution Mapping of Amazon Windthrow Dynamics Using Planet NICFI and Deep Learning (1980134)
Ricardo Dalagnol1, Fabien Wagner2, Daniel Braga3, Fiona Osborn1, Lorena Alves4, Anahita Jensen1, Le Bienfaiteur Sagang Takougoum5, Adugna Mullissa1, Polyanna Da Conceicao Bispo Dr.6, Stephen Hagen1 and Sassan Saatchi1, (1)CTrees, Pasadena, United States, (2)Ecosystem Research Team, CTrees.org, Pasadena, California, USA, Pasadena, United States, (3)National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (4)University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (5)University of California, Los Angeles, United States, (6)University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
 
Can a Functional Biogeography of drought resilience explain carbon-cycle differences between Amazônian and African forests? (1983767)
Shuli Chen1, César Terrer2, Luz Adriana Cuartas3, Bruce W Nelson4, Antonio Donato Nobre4, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe5, Juliana Schietti4, Scott C Stark6, Julia V Tavares7 and Scott Saleska5, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States, (3)CEMADEN Researcher, Hydrology, Sao Jose Dos Campos, Brazil, (4)INPA National Institute of Amazonian Research, Manaus, Brazil, (5)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, United States, (6)Michigan State University, Forestry, East Lansing, United States, (7)Uppsala University, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala, Sweden
 
Tree Water Dynamics from Radar Tomography Reveal Tropical Forest Drought Response: Insights from diurnal and seasonal measurements of radar tomography from the Throughfall Exclusion Experiment in Caxiuanã, Brazil (1990675)
Sassan S Saatchi1, Ines Fenni2, Jack Bush3, Pablo Sanchez Martinez4, Patrick Meir4, Maurizio Mencuccini5 and Alexandra G Konings6, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (5)CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain, (6)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, United States
 
Contrasting Methane Fluxes Across Upland and Flooded Amazon Forests: Insights from Tambopata, Guyaflux, and Mamirauá (1991127)
Rafael Stern1, Eric Cosio2, Norma Salinas2, Rudi Cruz2, Esteban Ramos-Chang3, Damien Bonal4, Laetitia M Brechet5, Benoit Burban6, Ayan Santos Fleischmann7, Debora Regina Roberti8, Daniel dos Santos8, Sara Knox9, Alison Hoyt10, Dr. Fa Li10, Robinson I Negron Juarez11 and Robert B Jackson10, (1)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Instituto de la Naturaleza, Tierra y Energía, Lima, Peru, (3)Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Instituto de la Naturaleza, Tierra y Energia, Lima, Peru, (4)Université de Lorraine, AgroParisTech, INRAE, UMR Silva, Nancy, France, (5)French National Research Institute of Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), UMR Ecology of Guianan Forests (EcoFoG), 97310 Kourou, French Guiana, (6)INRAE, UMR EcoFoG, CNRS, Cirad, AgroParisTech, Université des Antilles, Université de Guyane, Kourou, France, (7)Mamirauá Institute for Sustainable Development, Tefé, Brazil, (8)Federal University of Santa Maria, Department of Physics, Santa Maria, Brazil, (9)McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (10)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, United States, (11)Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, United States
 
Amazon rainforest adjusts to long-term experimental drought (1996412)
Pablo Sanchez Martinez1, Lion Martius1, Paulo Bittencourt2, Mateus Silva3, Oliver Binks4, Ingrid Coughlin5, Antonio Lola da Costa6, Lucy Rowland3, Vanessa Negrão-Rodrigues7, Maurizio Mencuccini8, João Athaydes Silva7, Sami W Rifai9, Sassan S Saatchi10, Patrick Meir1 and Rachel Selman1, (1)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (2)Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, (3)University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, (4)CREAF, Cerdanyola Del Valle, Spain, (5)Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, (6)Federal University of Para, Pará, Brazil, (7)Federal University of Para, Belem, Brazil, (8)CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain, (9)School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, (10)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems/Earth Science, Pasadena, United States
 
Environmental drivers of spatial variation in tropical forest canopy structure: Insights from NASA’s GEDI spaceborne LiDAR (1998308)
Paul R Moorcroft, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, Shaoqing Liu, Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, United States, Ovidiu Csillik, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Elsa Ordway, University of California Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Liling Chang, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, United States, Marcos Longo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, Michael Keller, USDA Forest Service, Rio Piedras, United States and Marcos Longo
 
Co-variation of leaf traits and microclimate across canopies: does it matter for forest function? (2002816)
Neill Prohaska1, Leonardo G. Ziccardi2, Natalia Restrepo-Coupe1, Kleber Campos3, Scott C Stark2 and Scott Saleska1, (1)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, United States, (2)Michigan State University, Forestry, East Lansing, United States, (3)University of Western Para-UFOPA, Department of Environmental Physics, Santarem, Brazil
 
Multiple Stressors and Functional Responses of Amazonian Fishes: Implications for Small-Scale Fisheries (2003555)
Caroline Arantes1, Samuel Grinstead-Hessburg2, Erin Shepta1, Megan Beeksma1, Gabriel Borba3 and Silvia Mandai4, (1)West Virginia University, Morgantown, United States, (2)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, (3)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, United States, (4)USP University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
 
Radar-Based Monitoring of Tropical Forest Disturbance and Recovery Across a Chronosequence in the Chocó Biodiversity Hotspot (2003578)
Derek Tesser1, Kyle C McDonald2,3, Erika Podest4, Brian T Lamb5, Nico Blüthgen6, Constance Tremlett6, Felicity Newell7, Edith Villa-Galaviz6, Martin Schaefer8 and Raul Nieto9, (1)Saint Louis University, Remote Sensing Laboratory, Department of Earth, Environment and Geospatial Sciences, St. Louis, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)The City College of New York, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, New York, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (5)U.S. Geological Survey, Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center, New York, United States, (6)Technische Universität Darmstadt, Ecological Networks, Department of Biology, Darmstadt, Germany, (7)Louisiana State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Baton Rouge, United States, (8)Fundación Jocotoco, Quito, Ecuador, (9)Itapoa Project, Cali, Colombia
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