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Earth System Variability and Modeling

1. Modelling the past and future magnitudes and frequency of severe European rainfall events (H. Fowler)

2. Natural climate variability over the last 1400 years from Gulf of Mexico sediments (J. Richey)

3. Intensification of 400,000 year signal in Northern Hemisphere climatic proxies 4 million years ago (J. Nie)

4. Reconstructing El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO): integrating evidence from tree-ring, coral, ice core & documentary palaeoarchives, A.D. 1525-2002 (J. Gergis)

5. Temperature, hydrological cycle and vegetation changes in the last 3500 years on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau, China (Z. Liu)

6. Sensitivity of the Indian monsoon to changes in boundary conditions (K. Zickfeld)

7. Dissolved organic matter and sea ice in the Arctic: Implications for global warming (S. Bélanger) (Did not present)

8. Synthesis of the Earth system measurements and modelling for the post-industrial period and future (K. Tanaka)

Ocean, Freshwater and Coastal Systems

1. Human- and climate-induced changes in the Baltic Sea ecosystem: are they easily reversible? (M. Casini)

2. Downscaling climate-driven changes in marine and limnic pelagic ecosystems in Western Europe. From patterns to mechanisms (J. Molinero)

3. Global climate change is affecting the East African Rift Valley lakes (C. O’Reilly)

4. The influence of land use on freshwater ecosystem integrity in South Africa (M. Amis)

5. Rainwater harvesting as an adaptation to rainfall variability and climate change in drought-prone areas of highland Ethiopia (W. Bewket)

6. A Global Coastal Wetland Crisis? Sea-Level Rise, Adaptation and Wetland Change from a Global Perspective (L. McFadden)

7. Dual control of the levels of photoprotective compounds by UVR and temperature in freshwater copepods (P.Perez)

8. Future hydro-climatology of the Mekong River basin under climate change simulated using the high resolution Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) AGCM (A. Kiem) (Did not present)

Land Ecosystems and Biodiversity

1. Response of alpine tundra plants to changes in snow cover and snowmelt date (S. Wipf)

2. Assessing the potential of airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar for estimating above-ground woody biomass in tropical savanna woodland (K. Viergever)

3. The impact of anthropogenic disturbance on diversity patterns of freshwater gastropods in Lake Victoria, Kenya.  Implications for biodiversity conservation and management of potential snail borne diseases (C. Lange)

4. Tropical vegetation response to rapid climate changes: palynological evidence from the Cariaco Basin (C. Gonzalez)

Biogeochemical Cycles; Cryospheric Studies

 1. Glacier fluctuations and downwasting in the Hindu Kush and Karakoram Himalayas (U. Haritashya)

2. Glaciological and meteorological studies along a traverse line from ice-sheet coast to summit, Antarctica (C. Xiao)

3. Effects of drainage and 21st century warming on the greenhouse impact of western Siberian mires (W. Borren)

4. Evidence of changes in the nitrogen cycle along a secondary forest chronosequence in eastern Amazonia (A. Figueira)

5. Interactions between climate and land cover changes on the Tibetan Plateau (X. Cui)

6. Investigating the sources of organic carbon aerosol to the atmosphere (C. Heald)

7. Impacts of anthropogenic aerosols on regional climate over East Asia (Y. Huang)

8. Climate change and atmospheric aerosols in the Arabian Gulf region (K. Ross)

Human Vulnerability and Risk Management

1. A Proximal Framework for Modeling Urban Carbon Contributions (M. Reilly) (did not present)

2. Global Urban Estimates: A Comparison (D. Potere)

3. An Integrated Assessment of the interaction between human society and global air quality (Q. Tong)

4. The Optimal Portfolio of Mitigation and Adaptation as Climate Change Risk Management Strategies (T. Felgenhauer)

5. Vulnerability and adaptation to climate variability and water stress in Uttaranchal state, India (U. Kelkar)

6. Remittances, culture and natural disasters: The impact of Niue’s Cyclone Heta, 2004 (O. Warrick)

7. Artisanal fisheries management in the context of decentralization and climate variability: exploring the linkages between local and higher level institutions in Peru (M. Badjack)

8. Local knowledge and adaptation to climate change – a synthesized means to engage the local community into the research process (H. Luong Quang)

Global Change and Agricultural Systems

1. Climate Change in Agricultural Production in China: Past and Future (F. Tao)

2.  Agent-based model of land use change in traditional agricultural landscape in various climate, policy and socio-economic scenarios (D. Dabin)

3. Trends in climate extremes and implications to agriculture over southern Africa (M. Mdoka)

4. Dynamic adaptation of agricultural systems to climate change. Will climate change take care of itself? (F. Meza)

Posters

1. Dynamics of the Senegalese’s Niayes ecosystems in relation to recent climate variability (L. Aguiar)

2. Cryospheric changes in the Antarctic Peninsula: The signal of glacier surfaces (J. Arigony-Neto)

3. Climate warming and its impacts on ecosystems at Lake Hövsgöl, northern Mongolia (N. Banzaragch)

4. Production of isoprene from the interaction between dust particles and seawater (A. Batsaikhan)

5. Inter-decadal climate variability in the Argentinean Pampas: Impacts of plausible future scenarios on agricultural systems (F. Bert) (did not present)

6. Study on the effect of elevated carbon dioxide on nitrogen and carbon fixation by the marine diazotroph Trichodesmium (H. Biswas)

7. The role of a foundation species in the response of a New England salt marsh to global warming (K. Bromberg)

8. The spatiotemporal structure of the long-term global warming trend and the Pacific pan-decadal variability in the middle and low latitudes based on observed and reanalyses data (J. Chen)

9. Warming of the eastern equatorial pacific over the last two centuries and implications for the tropical pacific western North American drought teleconnection (J. Conroy)

10. The influence of climate change on organic chemicals distribution and fate: overview and a case study application (M. Dalla Valle)

11. Abrupt climate changes in the late Pleistocene (S. Dallmeier-Tiessen)

12. Equatorial Pacific climate changes during the last 1.8 Myrs: a key to the onset of the glaciations (T. de Garidel-Thoron)

13. Eddy Transports through the ACC region adjacent to the Weddell Sea (J. de Souza)

14. Importance of biological consumption as a sink for dimethylsulfide (DMS) during spring and summer in the Ross Sea, Antarctica (D. Del Valle)

15. Development of a framework to identify appropriate spatial and temporal scales for modelling N flows (E. Dumont)

16.  Forest policy and livelihood Strategies: The economic context of household afforestation in southwest China (L. Ediger)

17. Biodiversity change and ecosystem functioning: Evidence from a natural ecosystem (P. Flombaum)

18. Reconstructing climate change in the marine environment (L. Foster)

19. Volcanic forcing of climate over the past 1500 Years: An improved ice core based index for climate models (C. Gao)

20. QSSI: a systems indicator for sustainability (J. Grosskurth)

21. The potential of private forest management in climate change policy in Korea (K. Han)

22. Tree and ecosystem responses to four-year CO₂ enrichment at the Swiss treeline (T. Handa)

23. Understanding Beijing’s dilemma by coupling cellular automata model and system dynamic model (C. He)

24. The potential of ecological transition to provide environmental services in peri-urban subtropical forests of NW Argentina (M. Hernandez)

25. Controls over carbon turnover in Arctic tundra (K. Holland)

26. Future change in the frequency of warm and cold spell durations over Pakistan simulated by the PRECIS regional climate model (S. Islam)

27. Multiple-scale terrestrial carbon flux responses to precipitation regime changes along a continental climate gradient (G. Jenerette)

28. Satellite observations of fire-induced albedo changes and the associated radiative forcing: a comparison of boreal forests and tropical savannas (Y. Jin)

29.  The influence of climate change and anthropogenic factors on the distribution of Balanites aegyptiaca (L.) Del. in Serengeti ecosystem, Tanzania (L. Jones)

30. Trend analysis of CTM derived northern hemisphere winter total ozone using self-consistent proxies: How well can we explain dynamically induced trends? (A. Jrrar)

31. Dynamics of thaw subsidence in response to permafrost downward retreat at an European Russian CALM site, 1999-2005 (D. Kaverin)

32. Simulating the impact of climate change on the water balance components in a medium size and monsoon – affected watershed (S. Kurnianto)

33.  Convective lifting of South Asia pollution to the upper troposphere during the Asian Summer Monsoon: Linking regional pollution to global climate change (Q. Li)

34. Paleoclimatic changes and human settlement during the Holocene on the semiarid coast of Chile (32ºS) (A. Maldonado) (did not present)

35. Modelling sugarcane response to rain fall variability affected by ENSO (El Niño-South Oscillation) (H. Medina)

36. Effects of simulated ozone depletion on phytoplankton photoprotection at three different latitudes (B. Mohovic)

37. A coevolutionary perspective on agro-ecosystem change: Tobacco contracting and organic production in a small family farming community of southern Brazil (R. Moreno-Penaranda)

38. Modelling biodiversity loss by global warming on Pantepui, northern South America (S. Nogue)

39. Modelled impacts of climate warming on the distributions of invasive European annual grasses in southern Africa (F. Parker-Allie)

40. OZBGM-C: A cross-sectional model for assessing the risk of climate change to Australian cereal production (B. Preston)

41. Glacial-interglacial changes in flow vigour of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: evidence from the Scotia Sea (R. Pugh)

42. Soil carbon turnover in native subtropical tree plantations (A. Richards)

43. Responses of Central Amazon biodiversity and carbon storage to altered disturbance regimes (A. Robertson)

44.  Assessing adaptive capacity to tropical cyclones in the East coast of India: A pilot study of public response to cyclone warning information (U. Sharma)

45. Modeling zooxanthellae densities in corals: Predicting reef coral response to climate change (K. Shiroma)

46. Influence of extreme events on the tree radial growth in the regional and global scales (O. Sidorova)

47. Large contributions of particle formation to global atmospheric aerosol (D. Spracklen)

48. Carbon Management technologies and public perception: A comparative assessment of the US and India (J. Stephens)

49. Vulnerability of wheat production in different climatic zones of Pakistan under climate change scenarios using CSM-CERES-Wheat Model (H. Sultana)

50. Natural   astaxanthin   production for the purpose of  the maintenance of health under conditions of global environmental changes (N. Terentyeva)

51. Energy challenges for developing countries in a world of global environmental change (F. Urban)

52. Regional and source contributions to INDOEX aerosols using the LMD-ZT general circulation model (S. Verma)

53. Modelling the distribution of plant species (J. Wang)

54. Patterns of nitrogen limitation along the Kalahari Transect: Results from a stable isotope fertilization experiment (L. Wang)

55. Storages of soil organic and inorganic carbon and sequestration potential of soil carbon in China (S. Wang)

56. The postnormal science perspective on knowledge production in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Y. Yamineva)

57. Spatial patterns of carbon residence times and sequestration capacity in conterminous USA (T. Zhou)

58. Carbon exchange between atmosphere, soils and permafrost: Modelling results (N. Zimov)