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Session Proposal: Forest Evapotranspiration and Ecohydrology Under a Changing Environment: Processes and Quantifications (AGU25)

H066
Forest Evapotranspiration and Ecohydrology Under a Changing Environment: Processes and Quantifications

Session ID#: 248475

Session Description:
Evapotranspiration (ET) processes represent the nexus of water, carbon and energy cycles and are relevant to other ecosystem processes (i.e., biodiversity, nutrient cycling). Accurately quantifying ecosystem services (i.e. water and timber supplies, flood mitigation, carbon sequestration, climate cooling) requires a clear understanding of ET.  Quantifying forest ET remains challenging due to complex biophysical processes and the dynamic nature of forests (i.e., age, species composition, leaf area index variations). The ecohydrological impacts of natural or anthropogenic disturbances such as climate and land use change, and wildland fires are reflected on changes in ET. Smart forest management and ‘Nature-based Solutions’  to emerging environmental challenges (e.g., wildland fires, Urban Heat Islands, and flooding)   requires a close look at ecohydrology at multiple scales. We welcome papers on advances of understanding forest ET and associated ecohydrology using field measurements, remote sensing, and computer modelling at tree, stand, small watershed to regional levels.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • AE - Atmospheric and Space Electricity
  • B - Biogeosciences
Index Terms:

1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1818 Evapotranspiration [HYDROLOGY]
1876 Water budgets [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener:  Ge Sun, USDA Forest Service, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Rtp, United States
Conveners:  Ning Liu, CSIRO Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Maricar M Aguilos, North Carolina State University, Forestry and Environmental Resources, Raleigh, United States and Yun Yang, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Paul Seibert, University of California Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, United States
 
Challenges and future directions in quantifying forest evapotranspiration (Invited) (1844717)
Dr. Koong Yi, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, Urbana, United States; University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, Urbana, United States
 
Coastal Forest Ecohydrology: Venturing to the Edge (Invited) (1854061)
Georgianne W Moore1, Charles Pell2, Ember Crutchfield1, Kourtney Byers3 and Bryant Miller2, (1)Georgia Southern University, Department of Biology, Statesboro, United States, (2)Georgia Southern University, Department of Biology, Statesboro, GA, United States, (3)Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA, United States
 
Modeling Evapotranspiration Dynamics Across Southeastern U.S. Ecosystems Using Flux Data and Machine Learning (1873232)
Maricar M Aguilos1, Ge Sun2, Ning Liu3,4, Jiayin Zhang5, Miko Belgado6, Steve McNulty2 and John S King7, (1)North Carolina State University Raleigh, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, Raleigh, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Southern Research Station, Research Triangle Park, United States, (3)Murdoch University, Murdoch, Australia, (4)CSIRO Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (5)Nanjing University, Nanjing-Helsinki Institute in Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, Nanjing, China, (6)North Carolina State University Raleigh, Department ofForestry and Environmental Resources, Raleigh, United States, (7)North Carolina State University, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, Raleigh, United States
 
Simulating and partitioning interception, evaporation, and transpiration by vegetation type in a semi-arid montane watershed in the southwest using HYDRUS-1D (1901475)
Emory Ellis, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States and Salli Dymond, Northern Arizona University, School of Forestry, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
 
Seasonal effects of deforestation on water yield: a global synthesis (1916734)
Ge Sun, US Forest Service Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States, Ning Liu, CSIRO Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia, Antonio Aguilar, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile, Devendra Man Amatya, USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Cordesville, United States, Johnny Boggs, USDA Forest Service, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, Southern Research Station, Durham, United States, Peter V Caldwell, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Center for Integrated Forest Science, Otto, United States, Silvio Ferraz, USP University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Yiping Hou, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Department of Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences, Kelowna, BC, Canada, Julia Jones, Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, Tomoki Oda, Forestry & Forest Products Research Institute, Department of Disaster Prevention, Meteorology and Hydrology, Tsukuba, Japan, Benjamin Rau, USDA Forest Service, Parsons, United States, Paul Richardson, California Geological Survey, Sacramento, United States, Catalina Segura, Oregon State University, Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management, Corvallis, OR, United States, Adam Wei, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences, Kelowna, BC, Canada and Lu Zhang, CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, Australia
 
Tree Trunk as a Dynamic Reservoir: ERT-Based Insights into Water Storage and Hydrological Drivers in Ponderosa Pine (1926672)
Victoria Wojahn1, Antonio Alves Meira Neto1, David Barnard2 and Sean M Gleason3, (1)Colorado State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fort Collins, United States, (2)USDA-ARS, Water Management & Systems Research, Fort Collins, United States, (3)USDA‐ARS, Water Management and Systems Research Unit, Fort Collins, United States
 
Restoration Thinning Saves Water in Semi-Arid Ponderosa Pine Forest (1927044)
Thu Ya Kyaw1, Temuulen Sankey2, Thomas Kolb3, George W Koch4, Dr. Helen Poulos, PhD5, Julia Tatum2, Andrew Barton6 and Andi Thode3, (1)Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (2)Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States, (3)Northern Arizona University, School of Forestry, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States, (4)Northern Arizona University, Department of Biological Sciences, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States, (5)Wesleyan University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Middletown, Connecticut, United States, (6)University of Maine at Farmington, Department of Biology, Farmington, Maine, United States
 
The Impact of Relative Humidity and Soil Moisture on Foliar Water Uptake (1929224)
Rory Price, Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States, Lauren Lowman, Wake Forest University, Department of Engineering, Winston-Salem, NC, United States, Sybil Gotsch, University of Kentucky, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Lexington, United States, Samantha Hartzell, Portland State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland, United States and Lauren Lowman
 
Drought Effects on Forest Evapotranspiration in a Temperate Pine-Oak Forest: Results from a 7-year Precipitation Manipulation Experiment (1929952)
Sam Zuckerman1, Matthew A Vadeboncoeur2, Mauro Brum Monteiro JR.2, Zaixing Zhou1, Heidi Asbjornsen1 and Cameron McIntire3, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, United States, (3)USDA Forest Service, Durham, United States
 
Early Season Controls on Transpiration in Coniferous Forests in the Sierra Nevada : Can warmer winters drive earlier transpiration? (1941286)
Shishir Basant, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Science, Reno, United States, Ignacio Aguirre, University of Calgary, Department of Civil Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, Calgary, AB, Canada, Wouter Knoben, University of Calgary, Department of Civil Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, Calgary, Canada and Adrian Harpold, University of Nevada Reno, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, United States
 
From Oak to Pine: Multi-Scale Quantification of Water and Energy Fluxes and Their Hydro-Climatic Implications in the West-Central Himalayas (1944043)
Jyoti Ranjan Mohanty1,2, Jaya Khanna1,2, Mukesh Kumar1,2, Mr. Denzil Daniel, MTech3 and Dr. Sumit Sen3, (1)National Institute of Science Education and Research, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, (2)Homi Bhabha National Institute, Training School Complex, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, (3)Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Department of Hydrology, Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
 
Impacts of Land Use and Cover Change on Evapotranspiration in China (1952338)
Congcong Li, Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resource Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China and Yongqiang Zhang, CAS Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Beijing, China
 
Trends in Surface Energy and Water Fluxes and the Impacts of Land Use Change in Brazil’s Biomes (1954033)
Cassia Caballero, Mississippi State University, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Starkville, United States; Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Institute of Hydraulic Research,, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Trent W Biggs, San Diego State University, Department of Geography, San Diego, CA, United States, Noemi Vergopolan, Rice University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, United States and Anderson Ruhoff, IPH / UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
 
Hydrologic Impacts of Biotic Disturbance: A Satellite-Based Analysis of Southern Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus frontalis) Outbreaks in Mississippi (1955936)
Ashley Schulz, Mississippi State University, Department of Forestry, Mississippi State, United States, Yun Yang, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States, Hui LIU, Cornell University, School of Integrative Plant Science, Soil and Crop Sciences Section, Ithaca, United States and Sasha Goodnow, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, United States
 
Riparian ecohydrologic drivers of streamflow across LULC types (1982747)
Christopher McNabb, Boulder, CO, UNITED STATES and Holly Barnard, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Simulating evapotranspiration and gross primary productivity across various ecosystems at subdaily scales (1983226)
Yongqiang Zhang, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Beijing, China and Shaoyang He, Insititute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Beijing, China
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