94th ESA Annual Meeting (August 2 -- 7, 2009)

Friday, August 7, 2009: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM

Taos, Albuquerque Convention Center

Presider:

Cathy D. Collins, Colby College

8:00 AM

COS 115-1

Projecting responses of aquatic food webs to climate change: Synthesizing ecological data and models with a new paleoproductivity indicator
John B. Sculley, University of California, Berkeley; Charles Nittrouer, University of Washington; Rex L. Lowe, University of Michigan; Tina M. Drexler, University of Washington; P.C. Furey, St. Catherine University; Mary E. Power, University of California Berkeley

8:20 AM

COS 115-2

Incorporating traditional ecological knowledge into wild rice research, education and management efforts in the Great Lakes region
Scott M. Herron, Ferris State University; Patrick Robinson, University of Wisconsin-Extension; Roger LaBine, Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa

8:40 AM

COS 115-3

Putting the heat on lizards: Cimate, physiology and climate impacts across latitude
Joshua J. Tewksbury, Future Earth; Raymond B. Huey, University of Washington; Curtis A. Deutsch, University of Washington; Laurie J. Vitt, University of Oklahoma; Paul E. Hertz, Barnard College; Héctor J. Álvarez Pérez, University of Puerto Rico; Theodore Garland Jr., University of California, Riverside

9:00 AM

COS 115-4

Changes in snowfall alter freeze-thaw dynamics, bacteria community composition, and soil CO₂ fluxes in a deciduous forest
Zachary T. Aanderud, Brigham Young University; Stuart E. Jones, University of Notre Dame; Noah Fierer, University of Colorado; Jay T. Lennon, Indiana University

9:20 AM

COS 115-5

CO₂ effects on aboveground biomass and species composition in an understory community
Lara Souza, University of Oklahoma; R. Travis Belote, The Wilderness Society; Paul Kardol, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Richard Norby, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

9:40 AM

COS 115-

Break

9:50 AM

COS 115-6

Initial responses of an old-field community with tree seedlings to warming and precipitation change
Susanne S. Hoeppner, Purdue University; Jeffrey S. Dukes, Purdue University

10:10 AM

COS 115-7

Interactive effects of past land use history and climate change on plant community diversity
Ellen I. Damschen, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Susan Harrison, University of California; James B. Grace, U.S. Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center

10:30 AM

COS 115-8

Pyrosequecing reveals the effects of simulated warming on microbial abundances and diversities in a tall grass prairie
Cody Sheik, University of Oklahoma; Mostafa Elshahed, Oklahoma State University; Yiqi Luo, University of Oklahoma; Graham Wiley, University of Oklahoma; Simone Macmil, University of Oklahoma; Chunmei Qu, University of Oklahoma; Ping Wang, Ningxia Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences; Bruce A. Roe, University of Oklahoma; Lee Krumholz, University of Oklahoma

10:50 AM

COS 115-9

Storms and droughts: Ecological consequences of climate change and fluctuating hydrological cycles in an estuarine ecosystem
Andrew L. Chang, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Christopher W. Brown, California State Lands Commission; Jeffrey A. Crooks, Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve; Gregory M. Ruiz, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

11:10 AM

COS 115-10

Hurricane-generated wrack deposition drives community dynamics of a northern Gulf of Mexico coastal ecosystem
Loretta L. Battaglia, Southern Illinois University; Bill Platt, Louisiana State University; Laura Shirley, The University of Melbourne; Scott Phipps, Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve

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