PP019
Modeling and Reconstructing Vegetation-Climate Interactions in the Past.
Session ID#: 252669
Session Description:
Vegetation and climate interact through multiple biogeophysical and biogeochemical processes. The climate strongly influences vegetation dynamics, including growth, mortality, reproduction, and structural shifts in plant communities. In turn, vegetation changes impact the climate via the surface energy balance and water/carbon cycles. Understanding the role of vegetation in amplifying land-atmosphere feedbacks is essential for predicting the behavior of the Earth system. Focusing on past vegetation enables the integration of paleo proxy data with observational records within vegetation–climate modeling frameworks—extending analysis across longer timescales and a broader range of climate states.The goal of this session is to enhance our understanding of vegetation-climate interactions using modeling approaches focusing on past climates. Examples include studies on how vegetation shifts influenced regional-to-global climate change, the extent to which past vegetation distributions reflected climate conditions, and vegetation responses to past warm/high-CO₂ intervals. Submissions using interdisciplinary approaches that utilize models and proxy data are also welcome.
Index Terms:
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3337 Global climate models [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3344 Paleoclimatology [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Primary Convener: Elke Zeller, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Conveners: Jed O Kaplan, University of Lausanne, Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, Lausanne, Switzerland, Anta-Clarisse Sarr, University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States and Sophia Macarewich, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Student/Early Career Convener: In-Won Kim, IBS center for Climate physics, Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea
Climate responses to varying vegetation configurations during the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period. (1852499)
Elke Zeller1, Sophia Macarewich2, Jed Kaplan3, Anta-Clarisse Sarr4, Feng Zhu2, Jiang Zhu2, Bette L Otto-Bliesner2, Daniel E Amrhein2, Jane Wilson Baldwin5, Christopher Poulsen6, Maya Tessler7 and Jessica Tierney8, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Calgary, Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment, Calgary, AB, Canada, (4)University of Oregon, Department of Earth Sciences, Eugene, OR, United States, (5)NOAA GFD Lab-Princeton University, Princeton, United States, (6)Harvard University, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, United States, (7)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, (8)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, United States
Predicting floral composition with climate: Testing climate models with plant distributions (Invited) (1864475)
Ingrid C. Romero1, Sophia Macarewich2, Scott L Wing3, Jin Young Park4, Feng Zhu2, Jiang Zhu2, Bette L Otto-Bliesner2 and Carlos Jaramillo5, (1)National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Department of Paleobiology, Washigton D.C., United States, (2)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (3)Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleobiology, Washington, United States, (4)I-66 Express Mobility Partners, Manassas, United States, (5)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, Panama
Unveiling the Late Paleozoic Climatic and Floristic Rejuvenation in the West Bokaro Coalfield, India: A Multi-Proxy Insights into Ecosystem Evolution (1877445)
Ayushi Mishra1, U K Shukla2, Pauline Kavali1 and Omnath Saha3, (1)Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India, (2)Banaras Hindu University, Department of Geology, Varanasi, India, (3)Geological Survey of India, Ranchi, India
Multiproxy Signals of Vegetation Dynamics, Wildfire activity, and Climate Change across the Permian–Triassic Boundary in the Mahanadi Basin of Lower Gondwana, India (1883016)
Deveshwar Prakash Mishra1,2, Srikanta Murthy2, Dieter Uhl3, Vikram Partap Singh2, Runcie Paul Mathews2 and Bindhyachal Pandey1, (1)Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, (2)Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India, (3)Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany
Building Open Data Systems to Support Research into Past Vegetation-Climate Interactions at Local to Global Scales (Invited) (1893199)
John W Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geography & Center for Climatic Research, Madison, United States, Jessica Blois, University of California Merced, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, United States, Andria Dawson, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, Canada, Socorro Dominguez Vidana, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States, David Fastovich, Syracuse University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Syracuse, United States, Simon J Goring, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Geography, Center for Climatic Research, & Data Science Institute, Madison, United States and Sam Wiles, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geography, Madison, United States
Global Wetland Dynamics Since the Last Glacial Maximum Reveal Wetter Glacial World and Regionally Distinct Patterns of Change (1900025)
Mazvita Marilyn Chikomo, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, Kerry Lee Callaghan, University of Illinois Chicago, Earth and Environmental Science, Chicago, United States, Andrew D Wickert, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, United States, Jacqueline Austermann, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, United States and Ying Fan, Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, United States
Unveiling the Late Paleozoic Climatic and Floristic Rejuvenation in the West Bokaro Coalfield, India: Multi-Proxy Insights into Ecosystem Evolution. (1907664)
Ayushi Mishra1, Pauline Kavali1, U K Shukla2, Omnath Saha3, Gurumurthy G P1 and Srinivas Bikkina1, (1)Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences, Lucknow, India, (2)Banaras Hindu University, Department of Geology, Varanasi, India, (3)Geological Survey of India, Ranchi, India
Biome.jl: A Flexible Package for Mechanistic Biome Simulations (1956954)
Capucine Lechartre1, Victor Boussange1, Jed Kaplan2, Philipp Brun1 and Niklaus E. Zimmermann1, (1)WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, (2)University of Calgary, Department of Earth, Energy, and Environment, Calgary, AB, Canada
Water transport traits modulate plant-climate interactions and icehouse and hothouse ecological transitions. (1960859)
Daniel J Peppe, Baylor University, Department of Geosciences, Waco, United States, William J J Matthaeus, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, Jennifer McElwain, Trinity College Dublin, Botany, Dublin, Ireland, Sophia Macarewich, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Dan John Lunt, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8, United Kingdom, Joseph D White, Baylor University, Department of Biology, Waco, TX, United States, Isabel P Montanez, University of California Davis, Institute of the Environment, Davis, CA, United States, Wray Jones, Baylor University, Geoscience, Waco, United States and Jonathan P Wilson, Haverford College, Department of Environmental Studies, Haverford, United States
Assessing the Relationship Between Leaf Physiognomy with Climate and Primary Productivity of African Low-Latitude Floras (1979243)
Venanzio Munyaka, Baylor University, Department of Geosciences, Waco, TX, United States, Aly Baumgartner, University of Michigan Herberium, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ann Arbor, United States, Caroline Strömberg, University of Washington, Biology & Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture, Seattle, United States, Kevin T Uno, Harvard University, Human and Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, United States, Rahab Kinyanjui, National Museums of Kenya, Earth Sciences Department, Nairobu, Kenya, Michaela Eamma, Datapoint, Fort Worth, United States, Tammo Reichgelt, University of Connecticut, Department of Earth Sciences, Storrs, United States and Daniel J Peppe, Baylor University, Department of Geosciences, Waco, United States
An Analysis of the Environmental Drivers of C4 Grassland Expansion in the Late-Miocene (1980047)
Gabriella Hernandez1, Jung-Eun Lee2, Feng Zhu3 and Jiang Zhu3, (1)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Brown University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Providence, RI, United States, (3)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Holocene Radiative Forcing from Land Cover Change: Forest Cover Shifts and their Capacity to Modulate Climate (1991054)
Andria Dawson1, John W Williams2, Bethany Blakely3, Ruby Morillo4, Simon J Goring5, Behnaz Pirzamanbein6, Johan Lindstrom6, Jonah Lamoureux1 and Marie-José Gaillard7, (1)Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB, Canada, (2)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geography & Center for Climatic Research, Madison, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin Madison, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, United States, (4)University of Miami, Miami, United States, (5)University of Wisconsin, Department of Geography, Center for Climatic Research, and Data Science Institute, Madison, United States, (6)Lund University, Lund, Sweden, (7)Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden
