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Current
Research: Terrestrial
carbon/climate coupling hot spots
The Amazon River Basin represents a global hotspot where high
rates of deforestation and vulnerability to climate change
may initiate feedback mechanisms whereby large biome shifts
or alterations to biogeochemical cycling may occur. The Lund-Potsdam-Jena
Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (LPJ-DGVM)
has projected large estimates for carbon emissions from deforestation
and climate change in tropical regions (Cramer et al. 2004).
Thus, the need to accurately forecast the environmental impacts
of global change on Amazonian rainforests extends to the global
carbon cycle, climatic teleconnections, and biodiversity habitat.
We will
investigate potential feedbacks between land-cover and climate
change on fire regimes and hydrologic cycling using the framework
set by LPJ. In particular, we will investigate changes in
fire regime due to land conversion from deforestation and
changes in projected precipitation patterns. The resulting
impacts on regional hydrology (evapotranspiration and run-off)
will then be considered in terms of their feedbacks to fire
and future changes in the pattern and distribution of plant
functional types.
This
project (ER 3) contributes to the science
objective 1 (Quantify feedbacks in the global carbon cycle)
of GREENCYCLES and has links to the projects of Marlies
(ESR III).
Curriculum
Vitae |
| |
| since
2006 |
Greencyclist
(ER) at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
(PIK), Germany |
| 2005-2006 |
Post-Doctoral
Researcher at Duke University |
| 2000-2005 |
PhD
student at the Nicholas School of the Environment and
Earth Sciences at Duke University, USA |
| 1999-2000 |
Research
Assistant at the Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie
Institution of Washington, Stanford University, USA |
| 1998-1999 |
Research
Assistant at The New York Botanical Gardens, New York,
USA |
| 1995-1998 |
Undergraduate
Diploma (BSc), Natural Resources Ecology and Conservation,
University of Idaho, Moscow, USA |
2008
Poulter B and PN Halpin. 2008. Raster modeling of coastal
flooding from sea level rise, International Journal of
Geographical Information Science. XXX,XXX, doi:10.1080/13658810701371858.
Poulter
B, NL Christensen, SS Qian. 2008. Tolerance of two
estuarine southeastern pine species to low-salinity and flooding:
Implications for equilibrium vegetation dynamics. Journal
of Vegetation Science. 19(1):15-22, doi: 10.3170/2007-8-18410.
Henman J and B
Poulter. 2008. Inundation of freshwater peatlands
by sea level rise: Uncertainty and potential carbon cycle
feedbacks. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences.
XXX,XXX, doi:10.1029/2006JG000395
2007
Verbeeten, E, B Poulter, A Braimoh, S Herrmann, P Cabral,
and A Balogun. 2007. Modeling Global Land-Use Decision
Making. EOS Transactions 88(49), 543.
Stephens,
N, S
Zaehle, and B
Poulter. 2007. Improving Our
Understanding of Earth System Processes Within the GREENCYCLES
EUROPEAN Training Network. EOS Transactions-AGU, 88(38),
372.
2006
Poulter B, NL Christensen and PN Halpin. 2006. Carbon emissions
from a temperate peat fire and its relevance to interannual
variability of trace atmospheric greenhouse gases, Journal
of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 111,D06301, doi:10.1029/2005JD006455.
2005
Pearsall S and B Poulter. 2005. Adapting coastal lowlands
to rising seas. A Case Study in M.J. Groom, Meffe, G.K.
and Carroll, C.R. (Editors). Principles of Conservation
Biology (3rd Edition), Sinauer Press, Sunderland, Massachusetts. |
