Symposium 1: Carbon science and landscape ecology: estimation of ecosystem carbon dynamics across multiple spatial and temporal scales

Organized by Yude Pan and Richard Birdsey

0800 – 1730h, Welcoming Hall

1. Global and continental carbon budgets
0805h	FANG, J. Changes in Growing Stocks of Global Forests: an Assessment Based on Satellite and FAO Data
0830h	KAUPPI, P. Improvement of Science or Change in Forests: Why Did European Forest Sequester Increasing Carbon in 1971-2005?
0855h	KURZ, W. Canada’s National Forest Carbon Monitoring, Accounting and Reporting System: Recent Improvements
0920h	PAN, Y. Forest Carbon Changes of the United States in Response to Impacts of Disturbances, Succession, Climate Variability and Atmospheric Chemistry
0945h	Break
2. Carbon dynamics across time and landscapes
1000h	HUNTZINGER, D. Quantification and Attribution of Spatial and Temporal Variability of North American Biospheric Carbon Flux Estimates
1025h	ZHENG, D. Reassessing Missing Carbon from a New Perspective: Scaling Effects
1050h	MICHALAK, A. Bridging Across Spatial and Temporal Scales in Carbon Dioxide Flux Estimation Through Geostatistical Analysis of Scale-Dependent Relationships Between Carbon Flux and Auxiliary Environmental Data
1115h	LIU, SG. Modeling Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics in the Eastern United States
3. Challenges for managing carbon at landscape scales
1430h	BIRDSEY, R. Carbon Cycling in a Nested Hierarchy of Watersheds of the Delaware River Basin
1455h	HOM, J. Elevated CO2 and Ozone Effects in Face Experiments Compared to Urban to Rural Gradients Studies
1520h	COOMES, D. Developing Mechanisms for Reducing Deforestation: the Challenges that Lie Ahead
1545h	Discussion