B041
Remote sensing of tropical forest and savanna responses to land use and climate change
Remote sensing of tropical forest and savanna responses to land use and climate change
Session ID#: 161476
Session Description:
Tropical forests and savannas are experiencing increasingly strong influences from land-use change and climate change. Deforestation and degradation, combined with extreme events — such as hot droughts, wind storms, fires and hurricanes — affect both short-term and long-term changes in tropical forest and savanna biomes. Short-term impacts include changes in photosynthetic activity, evapotranspiration, and leaf phenology. Long-term changes include increased mortality, biodiversity loss, canopy clearing, and post-disturbance recovery. Remote sensing allows efficient quantification of the highly heterogeneous impacts of land use and climate change on tropical forests and savannas over large areas. This session welcomes studies investigating changes in tropical forest and savanna ecosystems using a variety of remote sensing data including (but not limited to) lidar, radar, multispectral and imaging spectroscopy, from terrestrial, airborne, and spaceborne sensors. This session accepts research on a broad range of tropical forest and savanna ecosystems, including rainforests, dry forests, savannas, and mangroves. Studies that combine remote sensing with models and field measurements are also welcome.
Index Terms:
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0480 Remote sensing [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1632 Land cover change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
Primary Convener: Marcos Longo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners: Michael Keller, USDA Forest Service, Rio Piedras, United States, Elsa Ordway, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Ovidiu Csillik, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Carbon Cycle And Ecosystems, Pasadena, CA, United States
Student/Early Career Convener: Ovidiu Csillik, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Carbon Cycle And Ecosystems, Pasadena, CA, United States
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