UNDERSTANDING THE CONTROL OF HYDRAULIC TRAITS IN TROPICAL FORESTS USING A HYDRODYNAMIC MODEL WITHIN A DEMOGRAPHIC VEGETATION MODEL
Chonggang Xu1, Bradley O Christoffersen2, Rosie Fisher3, Ryan G Knox4, Liang Wei1, Lara M Kueppers5, Jeffrey Q Chambers6, Nathan McDowell7 and Charlie Koven8, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)MIT, Cambridge, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, United States, (6)University of California Berkeley, Department of Geography, Berkeley, United States, (7)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (8)Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,, Berkeley, CA, United States
