Call for Papers: "Adaptation of Vegetation to Global Change" at AGU (USA)
We would like to draw your attention to the upcoming 2010 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco on 13-17 December 2010, where we are organising a session on "Adaptation of Vegetation to Global Change".
Dear colleagues and friends,
We would like to draw your attention to the upcoming 2010 AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco on 13-17 December 2010, where we are organising a session on
"Adaptation of Vegetation to Global Change".
The session aims to draw together modellers, experimentalists and dataanalysts to advance our understanding of plant acclimation and adaptation to the environment, which is a pressing need when it comes topredicting the effects of global change. The session abstract is included at the end of this message.
The session will be highlighted by contributions by Graham Farquhar(Australian National University), Rosie Fisher (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Yiqi Luo (Oklahoma University) and Rowan Sage (University of Toronto), who will certainly help making this session thought provoking and insightful.
In order to submit an abstract to this session, please visit http://agu-fm10.abstractcentral.com/index.jsp before the submission deadline on 2 September 2010. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact one of us.
We look very much forward to your contributions to this exciting field of research. Please excuse any cross-postings.
Best regards, Stan Schymanski, Kevin Tu, Tom Buckley and Sönke Zähle
B45: Adaptation of Vegetation to Global Change
Sponsor: Biogeosciences
Co-Sponsors: Global Environmental Change, Hydrology
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. Predictive models therefore need to account for 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.
Session details:
<http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm10/program/scientific_session_search.php?show=detail&sessid=108>
Conference home page: <http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm10/>
Conveners:
Stan Schymanski (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany):sschym@bgc-jena.mpg.de
Kevin Tu (University of California - Berkeley, USA): <kevintu@berkeley.edu>
Thomas Buckley (Sonoma State University, USA): tom.buckley@sonoma.edu
Sönke Zähle (Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany):<szaehle@bgc-jena.mpg.de>
