Dear colleagues and friends,
We would like to draw your attention to the upcoming session we are
organizing at the 2009 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco on 14-18
December 2009:
B18: Adaptation of Vegetation to Changes in Environmental Forcing
Description: Global change can alter many environmental factors that
affect vegetation, such as temperature, rainfall, solar radiation,
humidity and nutrient availability. Quantitative prediction of global
change requires a good understanding of its effects on
vegetation-atmosphere interactions. Large scale models often treat
plants and their communities as static when considering these
effects. However, this excludes acclimatory and adaptive changes in
vegetation properties, which occur at many different time scales
(e.g. stomatal conductance vs. photosynthetic capacity vs. species
composition). This session aims to draw together modellers,
experimentalists and data analysts to advance our understanding of
plant acclimation and adaptation at the full range of relevant time
scales, from days to centuries and beyond. Similarities and
discrepancies between models and observations will reveal where our
current models need to be improved. Therefore, we particularly seek
contributions that are general enough to improve the representation
of vegetation responses to environmental change in models.
The session will be highlighted by contributions from
Peter Eagleson (MIT, USA), Invited
Joe Berry (Carnegie Institution of Washington, USA), Invited
Roderick Dewar (ANU, Australia), Invited
Christoph Kuells (University of Freiburg, Germany), Invited
Vince Gutschick, Contributed
Dan Yakir, Contributed
The submission deadline is *3 September 2009*. To submit an abstract,
please visit http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/program/abstract_submissions.php.
We look forward to your contributions to this exciting field of research,
Kevin Tu, Stan Schymanski, Tom Buckley and Soenke Zaehle
