Primary Convener:
Gabriel de Oliveira, University of South Alabama

Convener:
Zoe Pierrat, JPL/NASA/Caltech
Qianlai Zhuang, Purdue University
Amanda Hoffman-Hall, Eckerd College

Early Career Convener:
Erin Koster, University of South Alabama

Chair:
Noemi Vergopolan, Rice University
Anderson Ruhoff, IPH / UFRGS

Tropical forests are undergoing rapid transformations driven by increasing anthropogenic pressures, climate change, and land use change. In Amazonia, some regions are transitioning from carbon sinks to carbon sources. This session expands the focus to tropical forests globally—including the Amazon, Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia—which harbor the planet’s richest biodiversity and largest carbon stocks. Forest-atmosphere interactions, resilience thresholds, and ecosystem services are being reshaped by rising temperatures, shifting precipitation, and more frequent extreme events. These disturbances accelerate forest loss and fragmentation, eroding resilience and altering biophysical feedbacks from local to global scales. We invite contributions exploring how land use and land cover change (LULCC)—including deforestation, degradation, fire, conversion, and restoration—are altering forest structure and function. Emphasis is on impacts to water, carbon, and energy stocks and fluxes. We welcome research using remote sensing (e.g., MODIS, ECOSTRESS, SMAP, GEDI, Sentinel), in situ data (e.g., flux towers, plant traits), and modeling approaches.

Index Terms
0426 Biosphere|atmosphere interactions
0428 Carbon cycling
0429 Climate dynamics
0466 Modeling

Co-Sponsored Sessions:
ESA： Ecological Society of America
AMS： American Meteorological Society
EGU： European Geosciences Union
WCRP： World Climate Research Programme

Suggested Itineraries:
Climate Change and Global Policy
Global Impacts‚ Solutions‚ & Policies

Cross-Listed:
SY - Science and Society
A - Atmospheric Sciences
H - Hydrology
GC - Global Environmental Change

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering