Wednesday, August 9, 2017
C124, Oregon Convention Center
Ryan P. Pavlick1, David S. Schimel1, Frank W. Davis2, Gregory P. Asner3, Genevieve Burgess4, Kyle C. Cavanaugh5, Jeannine Cavender-Bares6, Stuart J. Davies7, Ralph Dubayah8, Liane Guild9, Daniel Jensen10, Walter Jetz11, Paul Moorcroft12, Helene Muller-Landau13, Philip Townsend14 and Zhihui Wang4, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, (2)Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, (3)Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, (4)University of Wisconsin - Madison, (5)Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, (6)Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, (7)Forest Global Earth Observatory, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Washington, DC, (8)Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, (9)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, (10)University of California, Los Angeles, (11)Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, (12)Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, (13)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, (14)Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Predicting how ecosystems and the services they provide will respond to accelerating environmental change requires more comprehensive and consistent information about plant functional diversity, the variation in the chemical composition, structure, and metabolic function of photosynthesizing organisms. Here we present a draft plan for a notional NASA field campaign using airborne imaging spectroscopy and lidar combined with in-situ data sources to investigate the the geographic patterns of plant functional diversity, their causes, and their consequences for other dimensions of biodiversity and Earth system functioning.
