We would like to draw your attention to our special session at the
next AGU Fall Meeting 2015 in San Francisco, USA (14 - 18 December 2015):
**Beyond Plant Functional Types: Advances in Simulating Species-Specific
Responses to Climate Change**
Session ID: 8890
SECTION/FOCUS GROUP: Biogeosciences (B)
CONVENERS/AFFILIATIONS:
Christopher J Still, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
John B Kim, USFS
Marie Dury, Oregon State University
Yueyang Jiang, Oregon State University
DESCRIPTION:
Plant functional types (PFTs) used in the current generation of
terrestrial biosphere models are highly generalized and simplified
representations of the mosaic of vegetation comprising biomes. PFTs
generally fail to represent the highly diverse species-specific plant
traits in ecohydrology, reproduction, dispersal, and adaptations to
disturbances, which can have regional and global consequences as they
determine vegetation dynamics and responses to climate change and
disturbances, such as drought, insect outbreaks and wildfire.
In this session, we invite presentations of model designs and
experiments that explore, advance and evaluate the ability to
represent species-specific traits and dynamics in next generation
terrestrial biosphere models for use in earth system models.
Information on our session can be found at
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/preliminaryview.cgi/Session8890.html
To submit an abstract, please visit
http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2015/abstract-submissions/
<http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2015/abstract-submissions/>
***** Abstract submission is open!
****** DEADLINE for Receipt of Abstracts is 5 August 2015 at 23:59 EDT*
We are looking forward to seeing you in San Francisco!
Thanks, and best wishes,
Marie Dury
Christopher Still
John Kim
Yueyang Jiang
--
*******************************
Forest Ecosystems and Society
Oregon State University
321 Richardson Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331-5752
Phone: 541.737.4086
FAX: 541.737.5814
chris.st...@oregonstate.edu
*******************************
