B065
Understanding Variation in Tree Hydraulic Processes and Associated Climate Feedbacks
Understanding Variation in Tree Hydraulic Processes and Associated Climate Feedbacks
Session ID#: 161036
Session Description:
To accurately simulate vegetation-climate feedbacks, Earth System Models (ESMs) must realistically represent plant water stress responses. Plants vary greatly in their strategies to cope with water limitation, which manifests as substantial variability in both underlying traits and observed drought responses within and among species. This variation is driven partly by antecedent moisture conditions, and partly by the pedo-climatic conditions in which the plants grow. While plant hydraulics frameworks are rapidly being incorporated into ESMs, the data needed to assess and validate these new models are largely lacking or inaccessible.
This session will cover the current understanding of plant hydraulics and its role in vegetation-climate interactions, and describe new approaches for generating data necessary to benchmark hydraulic model frameworks. We invite submissions from researchers using observational, experimental, and modeling approaches to explore critical feedbacks between plant hydrodynamics strategies and carbon and water exchange.
Index Terms:
0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1812 Drought [HYDROLOGY]
1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener: Elin M Jacobs, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Conveners: Kimberly A Novick, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States and Daniel Patrick Beverly, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States
Student/Early Career Convener: Indira Paudel, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
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