B052
Forest Disturbance in the Context of Shifting Climate: Understanding Disturbances and their Interactions as Agents of Forest Change

Session ID#: 74681

Session Description:
Disturbance agents such as fire, insect outbreaks, and windthrow are dominant and integral components of many forest ecosystems worldwide. These disturbances and their interactions impact forest structure, composition, and dynamics, thus impacting carbon and water cycling and energy fluxes. This session will explore the impacts of disturbance agents on the resistance and resilience of forests from local to global scales and investigate how disturbance regimes and interactions across disturbance agents will change in the future. We encourage abstracts that explore the impact of disturbances on forests using remote sensing, fieldwork, modeling, or an integrated approach, with an emphasis on (1) how disturbance frequency, intensity, and size determine forest structure, composition and dynamics; (2) the importance of non-linear and interacting impacts of disturbance agents on forests; (3) the role of disturbance in the carbon cycle and forest ecosystem function; and (4) the characterization of disturbance regimes, and predictions for the future.
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Primary Convener:  Adrianna Foster, Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Jacquelyn K Shuman, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Brendan M Rogers, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States and Winslow Deming Hansen, Columbia University, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, NYC, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Adrianna Foster, Northern Arizona University, SICCS, Flagstaff, AZ, United States
 
Global hotspots of forests primed to climate variability (492262)
Winslow Deming Hansen, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, NY, United States, Park Williams, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Rupert Seidl, BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
 
Ecological Impacts of an Extreme Flood: Implications for Changing Disturbance Regimes (495256)
Jacob Bendix, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States, Robert T Pavlowsky, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, United States, Derek Joseph Martin, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, United States and Toby Dogwiler, Missouri State University, Department of Geography, Geology and Planning, Springfield, United States
 
The influence of bark beetle outbreaks on burn severity for sub-boreal forests in British Columbia (495457)
Anna Talucci1, Garrett Meigs2, Anders Knudby3 and Meg Krawchuk2, (1)Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, United States, (2)Oregon State University, Forest Ecosystems and Society, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)University of Ottawa, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, Ottawa, ON, Canada
 
Macrofossil and brGDGT evidence of forest state changes after fires and cooling in the Snowy Range, Wyoming since 6 ka (499263)
Andrew Flaim1, Ioana Stefanescu2, David Thomas Liefert1 and Bryan N Shuman3, (1)University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States, (2)University of Wyoming, Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States, (3)University of Wyoming, Geology & Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States
 
Effect of Insects on the Terrestrial Carbon Sink in Mid-Atlantic Forests under 21st Century Warming (500090)
Benjamin S Felzer, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, United States
 
Threats for Carbon Storage in High Elevation Forests of the Sierra Nevada (502402)
Sara Winsemius, Orinda, CA, United States, Hugh Safford, USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States and Yufang Jin, University of California - Davis, Land, Air, and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States
 
Limited carbon cost of fire management in Californian forests: compensatory responses may buffer against long-term soil carbon losses (503515)
Adam Pellegrini1, Tony Caprio2, Katerina Georgiou3, Colin Finnegan4, Sarah E Hobbie5, Jeff A Hatten6 and Robert B Jackson1, (1)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)National Parks Service, Three Rivers, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, United States, (5)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Dept. of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Saint Paul, MN, United States, (6)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
Fast Regrowth of Montane Forest Understory Vegetation and Associated Recovery of Ecosystem Carbon, Water and Energy Fluxes during the First Two Years after Severe Wildfire in Waterton National Park, Canada (503941)
Lawrence B Flanagan1, Jesse Aspinall2 and Laura Chasmer2, (1)University of Lethbridge, Biological Sciences, Lethbridge, AB, Canada, (2)University of Lethbridge, Geography, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
 
The human imprint on modern forest fire (Invited) (503947)
Jennifer Balch, University of Colorado, Earth Lab & CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, Park Williams, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, Bethany Bradley, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Environmental Conservation, Amherst, MA, United States, John T Abatzoglou, University of Idaho, Department of Geography, Moscow, ID, United States and Paulo M Brando, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States
 
How does forest structure control temperature and water fluxes in the Amazon? (508929)
Marcos Longo1, Sassan Saatchi2, Michael Keller3, Antonio Ferraz2, Kevin W Bowman4, Joshua Fisher1, Kerry-Anne Cawse-Nicholson2, Douglas C Morton5, Jean Pierre Ometto6, Paul R Moorcroft7 and Mingjie Shi2, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, Rio Piedras, PR, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Earth System Science Center, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (7)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of 20th Century Carbon Storage and Emissions after Wildfire in an Old-Growth Forest Landscape (509821)
Lucas Harris1, Alan H Taylor1, Andrew E Scholl2, Amanda B Young3 and Becky L Estes4, (1)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Kent State University, Kent, OH, United States, (3)University of Alaska, Fairbanks, United States, (4)Pacific Southwest Region, USDA Forest Service, Eldorado National Forest, Placerville, United States
 
Don’t get too comfy: The postburn return of severe fire risk under climate change (516464)
Erin J Hanan1, Jianning Ren2, Christina (Naomi) Tague3, Jennifer C Adam2, John T Abatzoglou4 and Crystal Kolden5, (1)University of Nevada, Reno, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Reno, NV, United States, (2)Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States, (3)UC Santa Barbara, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (4)University of Idaho, Department of Geography, Moscow, ID, United States, (5)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States
 
Assessing the integration and pre-processing of NEON airborne remote sensing and in-situ data for optimal tree species classification (518706)
Victoria Scholl1, Megan E Cattau2, Maxwell Joseph2 and Jennifer Balch2, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES Earth Lab, Boulder, NY, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES Earth Lab, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Disturbance recovery and adaptation: Influences of climate, competition, and disturbance severity on tree growth and defenses (520272)
Christal Johnson, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
Quantifying Changes in Surface Properties in Environment Affected by Wildfire Using MODIS Products (526068)
Surendra Shrestha, Clark University, Graduate School of Geography, Worcester, United States and Christopher A Williams, Clark University, Graduate School of Geography, Worcester, MA, United States
 
Monitoring Insect Outbreaks Using MODIS Tasseled Cap Transformation Indices (534909)
Friedrich Röseler, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Geography Dept., Munich, Germany, Julia Pongratz, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany and Ana Bastos, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Dept. of Geography, Munich, Germany
 
Comparative analysis of insect outbreak impact detection over forests in northwestern USA from MODIS and SENTINEL-2 sensors (535423)
Johanna Schweiger, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Friedrich Röseler, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Geography Dept., Munich, Germany and Ana Bastos, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Dept. of Geography, Munich, Germany
 
Effects of an Experimental Ice Storm on Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in a Northern Hardwood Forest (538767)
John L Campbell, US Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Durham, NH, United States, Lindsey Rustad, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Durham, NH, United States, Charles T Driscoll, Syracuse University, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Syracuse, NY, United States, Timothy Fahey, Cornell University, Department of Natural Resources, Ithaca, NY, United States, Robert Timothy Fahey, University of Connecticut, Natural Resources and the Environment, Storrs, CT, United States, Habibollah Fakhraei, Syracuse University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Syracuse, NY, United States, Peter Groffman, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center and Brooklyn College Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New York, NY, United States, Wendy Leuenberger, University of Kentucky, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Lexington, KY, United States, Paul Gerard Schaberg, USDA Forest Service, Burlington, VT, United States and Julie N Weitzman, ORISE Fellow at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Western Ecology Division, Ecological Effects Branch, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
Analysis of wood cellular structure in early Holocene charcoal fragments from the Yucatan reveals Post-Glacial human activity and forest composition. (551653)
Barrett Nelson Rock1, James C Chatters2, Eduard Gordon Reinhardt3, Frederick Devos4 and Sam Meacham4, (1)University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, NH, United States, (2)Applied Paleoscience, Bothell, WA, United States, (3)McMaster Univ, Hamilton, ON, Canada, (4)El Centro Investigator del Sistema Acuífero de Quintana Roo A.C., Puerto Maya, Mexico
 
Integrating Forest Policy and Management Practices into a Size-Structured Vegetation Model, FATES-CLM (551680)
Kathryn Joyce Murenbeeld1, Alejandro N Flores1, Jacquelyn K Shuman2 and Kendra Elena Kaiser1, (1)Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, (2)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Wildfire Controls on Water and Carbon Balance in California’s Sierra Nevada (565381)
Qin Ma1, Michael Goulden2, Roger C Bales1 and Martha H Conklin3, (1)University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, (2)Univesity of California, Irvine, CA, United States, (3)University of California Merced, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Merced, CA, United States
 
FOCUS Project - operational monitoring and detection of disease outbreaks in European forest ecosystems using satellite and UAV data. (581196)
Elsa Baltazar1, Vasco Manuel Mantas1, Ajsc Pereira1, Jorge Canhoto2, Maria Jozefiak3 and Nicolas Lewyckyj4, (1)University of Coimbra, Department of Earth Sciences, Coimbra, Portugal, (2)University of Coimbra, Department of Life Sciences, Coimbra, Portugal, (3)S&T, Oslo, Norway, (4)VITO, Flemish Institute for Technological Research, Mol, Belgium
 
Radiative Forcing implications of boreal forest disturbances characterized with multi-source, higher resolution albedo from Landsat and Sentinel-2 (590895)
Angela Erb1, Crystal Schaaf1, Zhan Li2, Arthur Elmes1, Peter Boucher1 and Brendan M Rogers3, (1)University of Massachusetts Boston, School for the Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (2)Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, Canada, (3)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
 
Simulating the role of fire in forest structure and functional type coexistence: Testing FATES-SPITFIRE in California forests (602283)
Lara M Kueppers, University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, CA, United States, Samuel Levis, SLevis Consulting, LLC, Oceanside, CA, United States, Polly Buotte, University of California, Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, CA, United States, Jacquelyn K Shuman, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Bin Chen, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, Yufang Jin, University of California - Davis, Land, Air, and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States, Chonggang Xu, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Charles Koven, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Alexander D Hall, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Current and future large tree mortality from 2000-2025 across the Western United States forests assessed using forest inventory and a Random Forest classification (605459)
Brandon McNellis and Alistair MS Smith, University of Idaho, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States
 
Effects of soil freezing on methane oxidation in deciduous vs conifer forests in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, USA (606742)
Chase Scott Kasmerchak, University of Wisconsin Madison, Geography, Madison, WI, United States, David Rothstein, Michigan State University, Department of Forestry, East Lansing, MI, United States and Randall Schaetzl, Michigan State University, Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States
 
In situ and ex situ Disturbances Interact with Landform to Determine Landscape Distribution of Invasive Exotic Plant Species in a Temperate Deciduous Forest of Eastern US (609082)
Jian Yang, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States
 
Evaluating Threshold Responses to Hurricane Wind Speeds in Mangrove Forests across Puerto Rico and Southwest Florida (610389)
Vivian Griffey1, Douglas C Morton2, David Lagomasino3, Temilola Fatoyinbo4 and Bruce Cook2, (1)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, (4)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Forest Thinning and Drought Impacts on the Carbon Balance of the Northern Rockies (611763)
Jeffrey Stenzel1, Eric Walsh1, Danielle Berardi2 and Tara W Hudiburg1, (1)University of Idaho, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States, (2)University of Idaho, Forest, Rangeland, and Fire Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States
 
Projections of Amazonian forest fires in the mid 20th century (611822)
Sami W Rifai1, Sihan Li1, Liana O Anderson2, Luiz EOC Aragão3 and Yadvinder Malhi4, (1)University of Oxford, Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters – Cemaden, São José dos Campos, Brazil, (3)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Remote Sensing Division, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (4)University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom
 
Fire-induced canopy changes alter plant water, energy and carbon relations for Coastal Plains Forests in the Southeast U.S. (612325)
Lauren Lowman, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, United States and Ana Paula Barros, Duke University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, NC, United States
 
Leveraging Data from Forest Manipulation Experiments to Understand and Improve a Global Dynamic Vegetation Model (619336)
Joshua Michael Rady, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, Jacquelyn K Shuman, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States and Quinn Thomas, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Blacksburg, VA, United States
 
Forest disturbance in China from 2000 to 2005: models of trend and variance in size-frequency distributions (620002)
Danxia Song, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, Chengquan Huang, University of Maryland College Park, Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States and Tao He, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
 
Long-term ecological research of ecosystem dynamics in response to prevailing climate and typhoon disturbance, northeastern Taiwan (623906)
Chung-Te Chang, Tunghai University, Life Science, Taichung, Taiwan and Teng-Chiu Lin, Aalborg, Denmark
 
Predictive Modeling of Forest Insects in Ecosystem Models: Challenges and Progress (Invited) (487444)
Jeffrey A Hicke, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, Polly Buotte, University of California, Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, CA, United States, Kenneth Raffa, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States and Haiganoush K. Preisler, USDA Forest Service, Albany, CA, United States
 
Scale-dependent effects of landscape context on post-fire forest regeneration in the Northern Rockies (487946)
Jamie Peeler, The Pennsylvania State University, Geography, University Park, PA, United States and Erica A H Smithwick, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
 
Species-specific responses to climate change in a temperate rainforest (488479)
Benjamin Gaglioti, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Daniel H Mann, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geosciences, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Gregory C Wiles, College Wooster, Wooster, OH, United States, Nicholas Wiesenberg, College of Wooster, Wooser, United States and Laia Andreu-Hayles, Columbia University of New York, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States
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