Tropical forests are biodiverse ecosystems that play 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 waves, flooding, extreme rainfall);
3. interannual to interdecadal variability (e.g., ENSO, IOBM);
4. changes in biodiversity, biogeochemistry (including leaf processes, nutrient limitation, soil respiration, and carbon sequestration), and ecological processes (including phenology, demography, and 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.

• A - Atmospheric Sciences
• GC - Global Environmental Change
• H - Hydrology
• NH - Natural Hazards