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Session Proposal: Terrestrial ecosystem hydraulics in a changing world (AGU25)

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Terrestrial ecosystem hydraulics in a changing world

Session ID#: 248821

Session Description:
Of all the ways that climate change affects plants, feedbacks linked to increasing drought and heat stress have proven to be among the most harmful and the most difficult to predict. Historically, a holistic understanding of these responses has been hindered by an incomplete understanding of how hydraulic processes, in soils and plants, influence and interact with plant gas exchange, growth, and mortality risk. This session will present cutting-edge research describing how plant and soil hydraulic processes influence ecosystem function, productivity, and survival. We welcome submissions that leverage data from diverse sources - including field studies, environmental networks, and remote sensing -   in creative ways that push the frontiers of our understanding of ecosystem hydraulics.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0476 Plant ecology [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1812 Drought [HYDROLOGY]
1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener:  Kimberly A Novick, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Steve Kannenberg, West Virginia University, Morgantown, United States and Ana Maria Restrepo Acevedo, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Michael Contie Benson, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, United States
 
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Andrew Feldman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, William Kolby Smith, University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, United States, Alexandra G Konings, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, United States and Dr. Shawn Serbin, BA, MS, PhD, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Upton, United States
 
Climate-Driven Hydraulic Traits Shift in Natural and Planted Forests: Patterns, Drivers, and Future Acclimation (1867433)
Yan Bai1, Yujie Hu1, Yanlan Liu2, Kailiang Yu3, Xiangzhong Luo4, Liyao Yu5, Lei Tian1 and Jianping Huang1, (1)LZU Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China, (2)The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, United States, (3)University of Virginia, Charlottesville, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Department of Geography, Singapore, Singapore, (5)National University of Singapore, Department of Geography, Singapore, Singapore
 
How Much Sapwood Do Trees Maintain? Insights from Age and Water Balance (1874801)
Huiying Xu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and William Anderegg, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States
 
Observations of species-specific hydraulic response traits – model-based interpretation and long-term data (1879159)
Gil Bohrer1, Justine E.C. Missik2, Sarah Bungard3, Christopher Michael Gough4, Christoph S Vogel5, Ashley M Matheny6, John D Lenters5, Ana Maria Restrepo Acevedo7 and Jason Tallant5, (1)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)The Ohio State University, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering, Columbus, United States, (3)Ohio State University, Columbus, United States, (4)Virginia Commonwealth University, Biology, Richmond, VA, United States, (5)University of Michigan Biological Station, Ann Arbor, United States, (6)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (7)Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, United States
 
Canopy water content dynamics across space and time in three southern California oaks (1897225)
Anna Ongjoco1, Nidhi Vinod1, Natalie Queally1, Lawren Sack1, K. Dana Chadwick2, Philip G Brodrick3, Leander DL Anderegg4 and Elsa Ordway5, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of California Santa Barbara, Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology, Santa Barbara, United States, (5)University of California Los Angeles, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Drought response of fire-adapted Mediterranean plants under elevated CO2 (1901456)
Maya Zomer1,2, Bruno Moreira1, Jordi Martinez-Vilalta3,4 and Juli G. Pausas1, (1)Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación (CIDE, CSIC-UV-GVA), Moncada, Valencia, Spain, (2)University of California Berkeley, Schmidt Center for Data Science and Environment, Berkeley, United States, (3)CREAF, (ESQ5850011G), Cerdanyola Del Valle, Spain, (4)Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
 
Observed Patterns of Foliar Water Uptake in Arid Mangrove Ecosystems: The Role of Salinity and Leaf-Level Salt Secretion (1925105)
Augustine Nwokoye1, Emmanuel Ozioko1, Maria Ulatowski2, Ashley M Matheny3 and Annalisa Molini1, (1)Tulane University, Department of River-Coastal Science & Engineering, New Orleans, United States, (2)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
 
Exploration of Dendrometer Data to Infer Plant Water Stress at High Temporal Resolution (1925967)
Dragomira Zheleva1, Maria Zamora Re2, Abigail Tomasek3, Marja Haagsma1, John Steven Selker4, Chet Udell4 and Claudio Fuentes5, (1)Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Biological & Ecological Engineering - Extension, Corvallis, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States, (4)Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, United States, (5)Oregon State University, Statistics, Corvallis, United States
 
Linking Soil Nutrient Availability to Plant Hydraulics in Amazonian Dark Earth Forests (1931001)
Raiane Beu1, Thamilles S. Franco1, Lucas C R Silva2 and Augusto C Franco3, (1)University of Brasília, Graduate Program in Ecology, Institute of Biological Sciences, DF - Brasília, Brazil, (2)University of Oregon, Environmental Studies Program. Department of Biology, Eugene, Oregon, United States, (3)University of Brasilia, Department of Botany, DF - Brasília, Brazil
 
Assimilation of Vegetation Optical Depth within NUCAS Integrated with a Plant Hydraulic Module (1946819)
Huajie Zhu1, Mousong Wu1, Thomas Kaminski2 and Michael Voßbeck2, (1)Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, (2)The Inversion Lab, Hamburg, Germany
 
Assessing Drought Stress within the Rocky Mountain Region (1950256)
Isaiah Rejouis and Xiaonan Tai, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Edison, NJ, United States
 
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Kendalynn Ann Morris1, Ben P Bond-Lamberty2, Betel Issak3, Alice Stearns4, Vanessa L Bailey1 and Patrick Megonigal4, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Lab, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, United States, (4)Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, United States
 
Major Axes of Hydraulic Traits and Hydraulic Functional Types Derived From High-resolution Ecosystem-scale Traits (1953868)
Ziyang Tan1, Zhaozhe Chen1, Alexandra G Konings2, Xiangtao Xu3, Jana Kolassa4, Alexey N Shiklomanov5 and Yanlan Liu6, (1)The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, United States, (3)Cornell University, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, (6)The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, United States
 
Mapping Tree Hydraulics and Assemblages at Continental Scale (1962107)
Alvaro Moreno1, Jordi Muñoz1, James Knighton2, Pablo Sanchez Martinez3, Leander DL Anderegg4, Benjamin Dechant5, Fabian D Schneider6, Jens Kattge7, Akash Koppa8, Diego G. Miralles9, Teja Kattenborn10 and Gustau Camps-Valls1, (1)Image Processing Laboratory, Universitat de València, Paterna, Spain, (2)University of Connecticut, Natural Resources and the Environment, Groton, CT, United States, (3)University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, (4)University of California Santa Barbara, Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology, Santa Barbara, United States, (5)German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (6)Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark, (7)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, (8)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (9)Ghent University, Hydro-Climate Extremes Lab (H-CEL), Gent, Belgium, (10)University of Freiburg, Chair of Sensor-based Geoinformatics, Freiburg, Germany
 
Effect of Biochar Application on Soil Water Dynamics in Drought Prone soils (1967063)
Amir Hass1, Isabel M Lima2, Ameris Chadband3, Robert Cantrell4 and Hope Sizemore3, (1)West Virginia State University, Department of Biology, Institute, United States, (2)USDA ARS, New Orleans, LA, United States, (3)West Virginia State university, AERS, Institute, United States, (4)West Virginia State University, Biology, Institute, United States
 
Canopy Scorch and Tree Hydraulics: Sap Flow and Water Potential Responses to Fire in Loblolly Pines (1972728)
Vanessa Gremler, University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Athens, United States, Doug P Aubrey, University of Georgia, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Athens, GA, United States and Daniel M. Johnson, University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Athens, GA, United States
 
PSInet: a global database of plant water potential (Invited) (1984248)
Jessica Sijia Guo, Harvey Mudd College, Hixon Center for Climate and the Environment/Biology, Claremont, United States, Ana Maria Restrepo Acevedo, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, United States, Steve Kannenberg, West Virginia University, Morgantown, United States and Kimberly Novick, Indiana University, Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, United States
 
Quantifying soil hydraulic properties in cover cropping systems using paired in situ sensors (1989685)
Bradley O Christoffersen, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, School of Integrative Biological and Chemical Sciences, Edinburg, TX, United States, Fabrizio Pilco, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences, Edinburg, United States, Manish Gautam, University of Arkansas, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Fayetteville, United States and Alex Racelis, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences, Edinburg, TX, United States
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