讲座简介
The resilience of tropical forests under changing climate and disturbance regimes is a critical uncertainty of predicting the future fates of terrestrial biosphere. This uncertainty arises from a lack of (interpretable) observations and constraints on tropical forest growth and mortality that fundamentally drive tropical carbon cycles. In this talk, I will present novel results on key environmental sensitivities of tropical tree growth and mortality estimated from a combination of remote sensing, tree ring, and terrestrial biosphere modeling.
主讲人简介:
Xiangtao Xu is an assistant professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. He leads the Biosphere Modeling and Monitoring (BioM2) lab (https://xiangtaoxu.eeb.cornell.edu/), which aims at developing a predictive understanding of global forest dynamics by integrating ground observations, remote sensing, and trait-based computational modeling. He has published 30+ papers on top ecology journals including PNAS, New Phytologist, Ecology Letters, Global Change Biology, etc. with funding from US Department of Energy, NSF, and USDA.