EGU2013 - GCII Session BG5.1: Biospheric feedbacks on the Earth system
Event Dates: 7-12 April 2013
Location: Vienna, Austria
Convenors: Andrew Friend, Bethan Jones, Meike Vogt, Sönke Zahele, Han Dolman, Aideen Foley, Mehera Kidston, Gerardo López-Saldaña, Ioannis Bistinas, Catherine Morfopoulos
This session examined the biogeochemical processes that are likely to affect the evolution of the Earth system over the coming decades, with a focus on the dynamics of marine and terrestrial ecosystems and the development of improved understanding through (a) fieldwork and laboratory experiments, (b) development of new observational datasets, both modern and palaeo, and (c) simulations using numerical models. Novel approaches combining observational datasets with models to improve constraints were particularly well represented. This session not only included contributions from all the GREENCYCLESII fellows, but it also included significant contributions from non-network members with an inviated talk from Dr. Yiqi Luo, University of Oklahoma. Further details on the presentations made during the oral and poster sessions can be found below.

Oral Presentations
- Frans-Jan Parmentier - The Impact of a Lower Sea Ice Extent on Arctic Greenhouse Gas Exchange
- Michelle Schollert - High Arctic Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound emissions
- Catherine Mofopoulos - A unifying conceptual model for the environmental responses of isoprene emissions by plants
- Dominik Sperlich - Photosynthetic Potentials of Four Co-occurring Riparian Tree Species in Dependence of Water Availability in a Mediterranean Catchment, Catalonia (Spain)
- Alex Marti-Donati - Plant Nitrogen Uptake in Terrestrial Biogeochemical Models
- Jorge Martinez-Rey - Oceanic N2O emissions in the 21st century
- Yiqi Luo - A Traceability Framework to facilitate model evaluation (*Invited presentation)
- Mehera Kidston - Evaluation of Marine Biogeochemistry in the CMIP5 Earth System Models
- Peter Landschützer - Seasonal to Inter-annual Variability of the Atlantic Ocean Carbon Sink
- Aurélien Quiquet - Modelling the methane emissions from wetlands during the last interglacial period: potential impact on the atmospheric concentrations
- Matteo Willeit - Biogeophysical climate-vegetation feedback under a broad range of forcings
- Benjamin Stocker - Multiple greenhouse gas feedbacks from the land biosphere under future climate change scenarios
Poster Presentations
- Andrew MacDougall et al. - Would atmospheric CO2 concentration continue to increase if anthropogenic CO2 emissions were to suddenly cease?
- Callum Berridge et al. - Moving beyond Q10 representation of soil respiration; new modelling approaches.
- Chao Ting Chang et al. - Effect of soil water table on soil respiration in a riparian forest of northeast Spain
- Jean-François Exbrayat et al. - Addressing sources of uncertainty in the biospheric feedback to climate change simulated by a coupled model
- Daniel Goll et al. - Land carbon cycle projections for the 21st century with a model of combined carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling
- Deeksha Rastogi and Somnath Baidya Roy - A numerical study of mesoscale vegetation-atmosphere feedbacks using a new dynamically coupled vegetation-atmosphere model
- Gerardo López Saldaña et al. - Global surface Albedo changes due to anthropogenic biomass burning activities in Africa
- Christoph Müller et al. - Reversal of the land biosphere carbon balance under climate and land-use change
- Julia Pongratz et al. - Terminology as a key uncertainty in net land use flux estimates
- Katherine Crichton et al. - The effects of increased carbon storage in frozen soils on the carbon cycle in a coupled Earth-system Model of Intermediate Complexity for the glacial and deglaciation timescales
- Maria Martin Calvo - Climate versus carbon dioxide controls on biomass burning: a model-based analysis of the glacial-interglacial contrast
- Yafang Cheng et al. - The Exchange of Soil Nitrite and Atmospheric HONO: a Missing Process in the Nitrogen Cycle and Atmospheric Chemistry
- Yanjiao Mi et al. - High methane emission from Siberian river floodplains
- Aideen Foley et al. - Modelling the climate-carbon cycle response to stratospheric volcanic aerosol radiative forcing
- Altug Ekici et al. - Land surface-atmosphere feedback mechanisms in high-latitude permafrost areas
- GREENCYCLESII Network Team et al. - A European Initial Training Network on anticipating climate change and biospheric feedbacks within the Earth system to 2200: GREENCYCLESII
- Beate Stawiarski - Picophytoplankton physiology and the microbial loop
- Charlotte Laufkoetteret al. - Trends in marine plankton composition and export production in a CCSM-BEC hindcast (1960-2006)
- Colleen O’Brien et al. - Latitudinal gradients in marine diatom and coccolithophore diversity
- Dennis Sergeev and Alexey Eliseev -The impact of subgrid-scale vegetation distribution on the results of terrestrial carbon cycle modeling
- Dominik Sperlich et al. - Effect of Severe Winter Cold on the Photosynthetic Potentials of Three Co-occurring Evergreen Woody Species in a Mediterranean Forest, Catalonia (Spain)
- Guillaume Vilain et al. - Nitrogen cycle implementation in the Dynamic Global Vegetation Model LPJmL: description, evaluation and sensitivity analysis
- Jana Kolassa et al. - Model Evaluation with Multi-wavelength Satellite Observations Using a Neural Network
- Katrin Fleischer et al. - Evaluating the N-cycle module of LPJ-GUESS at the site-scale
- Katsumasa Tanaka et al. - On the linkages between the global carbon-nitrogen-phosphorus cycles
- László Hunor Hajdu et al. - Modelling the responses of atmosphere-biosphere interactions to changing land use and climate in the Amazon basin-a project overview.
- Miral Shah et al. - Towards high-precision isotopic analysis of CO2 from ice-core gas bubbles using quantum cascade laser spectroscopy
- Richard Lane et al. - Carbon Dioxide Enrichment Enhances Carbon Sequestration of Dryland Soil Microbial Communities
- Rozenn Keribin et al. - Diversity, Adaptability and Ecosystem Resilience