Primary Convener:
Robinson Negron Juarez, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Convener:
Elsa Ordway, University of California Los Angeles
Alison Hoyt, Stanford University
Santiago Botia, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Early Career Convener:
Alison Hoyt, Stanford University

Chair:
Elsa Ordway, University of California Los Angeles
Santiago Botia, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

Tropical forests are biodiverse ecosystems that exert a critical role in the Earth system’s cycling of water, energy, carbon, trace gases and organic compounds. This session welcomes research in tropical forests using ground-based results (observational studies and manipulation experiments), remote sensing and modeling. Processes to be highlighted include the responses and feedbacks of tropical forests to: (•1)land use change, degradation, changing vegetation demographics, increased atmospheric CO₂, altered rainfall and/or warming; (•2)extreme events (e.g., fire, drought, heat wave, flooding, extreme rainfall); (•3)interannual to interdecadal variability (e.g., ENSO, IOBM); (•4)changes in biodiversity, biogeochemistry (including leaf, nutrient limitation, soil respiration, and carbon sequestration), and ecological processes (including phenology, demography, biogeography).We encourage submissions from a wide range of perspectives, and especially integrative research toward a more holistic view of tropical forest responses to global change. Studies comparing and contrasting responses within biomes and across continents are particularly welcome.

Index Terms
3374 Tropical meteorology
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling
0429 Climate dynamics
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics

Suggested Itineraries:
Disasters‚ Calamities and Extreme Events
Climate Change and Global Policy
Biochemistry
Machine Learning and AI
Global Impacts‚ Solutions‚ & Policies

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering