Abstracts of all talks and posters presented.
Presiding:
Andy Bunn, Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Western Washington University,
Bellingham, WA
Jeremy Littell, Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington, Seattle,
WA
Connie Millar, Pacific SW Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Albany,
CA
Christina Tague, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management,
University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Non-linear
feedbacks between climate change, hydrologic partitioning, plant available
water, and carbon cycling in montane forests
P.D. Brooks; M.E. Litvak; A.A. Harpold; N.P. Molotch; J.C. McIntosh; P.A.
Troch; X. Zapata
Use
of Plant Hydraulic Theory to Predict Ecosystem Fluxes Across Mountainous
Gradients in Environmental Controls and Insect Disturbances
B.E. Ewers; E. Pendall; D.E. Reed; H.R. Barnard; F. Whitehouse; J.M.
Frank; W.J. Massman; P.D. Brooks; J.A. Biederman; A.A. Harpold; K.J. Naithani;
B. Mitra; D.S. Mackay; U. Norton; B. Borkhuu
Climatic
Water Deficit in California: Regional Trends, Projections, and Landscape
Impacts
A.L. Flint; L.E. Flint
Watering the Forest for the Trees: An Emerging Priority for Managing
Water in Forested Landscapes
G.E. Grant; C. Tague; C.D. Allen
How
evaporative water losses vary between wet and dry water years as a function
of elevation in the Sierra Nevada, California, and critical factors for
modeling
J.D. Lundquist; S.P. Loheide
The
Effects of Soil Moisture Stress on Forest Recovery in the Entiat River
Basin after Stand Replacing Fire
M. McGuire Elsner; A.F. Hamlet; R.D. Woodsmith; J.S. Littell; E. Istanbulluoglu
Resilience
of a Subalpine Ecosystem in the Southern Rocky Mountains to Past Changes
in Hydroclimate and Disturbance Regimes
T.A. Minckley; B.N. Shuman
The
Importance of Humidity Changes to the Future Water Balance over the Western
U.S.: Divergences Between Global and Hydrological Model Projections of
the Future Humidity Trend
D.W. Pierce; A.L. Westerling
The
climatic water balance in an ecological context
N.L. Stephenson
Drought characteristics drive patterns in widespread aspen forest mortality
across the western United States
W. Anderegg; L. Anderegg; J.T. Abatzoglou; J.A. Berry
Comparison
of sap flux data from two instrumented tree species in a forested catchment
with different levels of water stress
P.C. Hartsough; E. Roudneva; A.I. Malazian; M.W. Meadows; A.E. Kelly;
R.C. Bales; M. Goulden; J.W. Hopmans
Drought-Caused
Forest Decline In The Trans-Baikal Lake Area
V. Kharuk; J. Ranson; P. Oscorbin; S. Im
Soil
Water and Thermal Gradients in the Vadose Zone: Assessing Evapotranspiration,
Recharge Rates and Shifts in Phreatophytic Water Source
J. Koonce; M. Young; D. Devitt; Z. Yu; A. Wagner; L. Fenstermaker
Assessing
the climatic water deficit in a changing climate: A new index to evaluate
the potential importance of subsurface storage in mountain ecosystems
T.E. Link; P.Z. Klos; J.T. Abatzoglou; K. Kavanagh
Predisposing
trees to die during drought: How physiology and climate history influence
mortality in southwestern U.S. piñon pine.
A.K. Macalady; N.B. English; N.G. McDowell; T.W. Swetnam
Forest
Mortality in High-Elevation Pine Forests of Eastern California, USA; Influence
of Climatic Water Deficit
C.I. Millar; R.D. Westfall; A.L. Flint; L.E. Flint; M.J. Bokach; D.L.
Delany
An
Empirical Topoclimatology Model for Regional and Landscape Scale Assessments
of Water Balance and Related Ecological/Hydrological Processes in Complex
Topography
J.W. Oyler; S.W. Running
Projected Bioclimatic Change for the San Francisco Bay Area
A. Torregrosa; M. Taylor; L.E. Flint; A.L. Flint; S.B. Weiss
Effects
of climate change on climatic water deficit and wildfire in Greater Yellowstone
Ecosystem forests
A.L. Westerling; M.G. Turner; K. Lubetkin
Forest
response to 1,000 years of drought variability in the Southwestern United
States
A.P. Williams; D.M. Meko; C.A. Woodhouse; E. Cook; T.W. Swetnam; A.K.
Macalady; C.D. Allen; S.A. Rauscher; X. Jiang; H. Grissino-Mayer; N.G.
McDowell; M. Cai