Wednesday, August 4, 2010: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
408, David L Lawrence Convention Center
COS 68 - Environmental Gradients
1:30 PMCOS 68-1Physiology and responses to salinity of the coastal legume Strophostyles umbellata
Spencer N. Bissett, Virginia Commonwealth University, Donald R. Young, Virginia Commonwealth University
1:50 PMCOS 68-2Dominant plant species determine ecosystem response to multiple resource additions across a precipitation gradient
Kimberly J. La Pierre, Yale University, Dana M. Blumenthal, USDA-ARS, Cynthia Brown, Colorado State University, Julia A. Klein, Colorado State University, Melinda D. Smith, Yale University
2:10 PMCOS 68-3Spatial patterns of diversity of the ungulate community in Serengeti National Park, East Africa
Smriti Bhotika, University of Florida, Robert D. Holt, University of Florida
2:30 PMCOS 68-4An adaptive cline in life history, developmental timing and allocation in Arabidopsis thaliana associated with altitude
Alicia Montesinos Navarro, University of Pittsburgh, Jennifer Wig, University of Pittsburgh, Stephen J. Tonsor, University of Pittsburgh
2:50 PMCOS 68-5CANCELLED - Topographical controls on wildland fire radiative energy: Two case studies from southeastern Ohio
Loredana G. Suciu, Ohio University, Matthew B. Dickinson, US Forest Service, James M. Dyer, Ohio University, Robert L. Kremens, Rochester Institution of Technology, Valerie L. Young, Ohio University, Anthony S. Bova, US Forest Service
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 68-6Phytoplankton temperature-response traits determine biogeography and seasonal succession patterns
Mridul K. Thomas, Michigan State University, Elena Litchman, Michigan State University, Christopher A. Klausmeier, Michigan State University
3:40 PMCOS 68-7Quantifying the effects of topography, substrate, and land-use history on aboveground biomass in a California ecosystem
Kyla M. Dahlin, Stanford University, Gregory Asner, Carnegie Institution, Chris Field, Carnegie Institution
4:00 PMCOS 68-8Dynamics of early successional tree species recruitment in old fields across a latitudinal gradient in the Eastern US
Justin Wright, Duke University, Jason Fridley, Syracuse University
4:20 PMCOS 68-9Trends in species richness for the genus Passiflora and its lepidopteran herbivores along an elevational gradient in the Eastern Ecuadorean Andes
Mattias Lanas, ESA SEEDS Fellow, Lee A. Dyer, University of Nevada, Rodolfo Dirzo, Stanford University
4:40 PMCOS 68-10An ecological and evolutionary perspective on the role of functional trade-offs in determining willow species (genus: Salix) distributions at two geographic scales
J.A. Savage, University of Minnesota, J.M. Cavender-Bares, University of Minnesota

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