Dear Colleagues, First of all, apologies for cross-posting.
Abstract submission for the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2016 (17th-22nd April 2016, Vienna, Austria) is now open. We would like to invite you to submit an abstract to our session: ________________________________ BG2.9 Functional responses of trees and forests to environmental stress: ecophysiological and dendroecological approaches Understanding how trees cope with environmental stress is paramount to predict forest dynamics and composition under global change. Drought, heat and cold stresses constrain tree functioning and global change is already driving tree functional responses to changing hydroclimatic conditions. Ecophysiological responses include changes in the short-term regulation of water and carbon use, from the organ to the whole-plant levels. Dendroeocology and wood anatomy studies provide a longer-term perspective on radial growth history and its drivers, allowing us to infer legacy effects of chronic and episodic stresses, including climate-driven changes in xylem and phloem properties influencing transport of water and sugars within the plant. This session focuses on experimental and model-data integration studies of tree functioning under environmental stress. We specially welcome studies using one or more of the following instrumental techniques: (i) gas exchange, (ii) tree hydraulics and sap flow, (iii) automatic dendrometers, (iv) dendrochronology and (v) quantitative wood anatomy. Convener: Rafael Poyatos López <http://www.creaf.cat/en/personal/rafael-poyatos-lopez>http://www.creaf.cat/en/personal/rafael-poyatos-lopez Co-Conveners: Ute Sass-Klaassen, <https://www.wageningenur.nl/es/Persons/dr.-UGW-Ute-SassKlaassen.htm> https://www.wageningenur.nl/es/Persons/dr.-UGW-Ute-SassKlaassen.htm Kathy Steppe, <http://www.plantecology.ugent.be/people.shtml> http://www.plantecology.ugent.be/people.shtml Georg von Arx, <http://www.wsl.ch/info/mitarbeitende/vonarx/index_EN> http://www.wsl.ch/info/mitarbeitende/vonarx/index_EN ________________________________ * For up-to-date session information: <http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/session/21878>http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2016/session/21878 * Detailed information on how to submit an abstract can be found at: <http://egu2016.eu//abstract_management/how_to_submit_an_abstract.html>http://egu2016.eu//abstract_management/how_to_submit_an_abstract.html * The deadline for the receipt of abstracts is 13 Jan 2016, 13:00 CET. In case you would like to apply for support, please submit no later than 01 Dec 2015; see below for more information on financial support: <http://egu2016.eu/support_and_destinction.html>http://egu2016.eu/support_and_destinction.html * Further information about the EGU General Assembly 2016 can be found at: EGU web <http://egu2016.eu/> http://egu2016.eu/ EGU blog <http://geolog.egu.eu/> http://geolog.egu.eu/ EGU on Twitter <https://twitter.com/EuroGeosciences> https://twitter.com/EuroGeosciences #EGU16 Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanGeosciencesUnion> https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanGeosciencesUnion Best regards, Rafael Poyatos Kathy Steppe Ute Sass-Klaassen Georg von Arx -- Rafael Poyatos López ---------------------- Postdoctoral Researcher CREAF - Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals Campus UAB. Edifici C. 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona) -- +34 93 581 46 76 r.poya...@creaf.uab.cat<mailto:r.poya...@creaf.uab.cat> http://www.creaf.cat/en/personal/rafael-poyatos-lopez
