COS 19 - Physiological Ecology I

Monday, August 6, 2012: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Portland Blrm 256, Oregon Convention Center
1:30 PM
 Using fecal samples to measure physiological stress in American pikas
Jennifer Wilkening, University of Colorado; Chris Ray, University of Colorado; Karen Sweazea, Arizona State University
1:50 PM
 Developmentally-based scaling of leaf venation architecture with leaf size explains global ecological patterns
Lawren Sack, UCLA; Christine Scoffoni, UCLA; Athena McKown, UCLA; Kristen Frole, University of Hawaii; Michael Rawls, University of California Los Angeles; J. Christopher Havran, Campbell University; Huy Tran, UCLA; Thusuong Tran, UCLA
2:10 PM
 Examining the response of lodgepole pine transpiration to snow melt and summer rainfall in subalpine Colorado, USA
Holly R. Barnard, University of Colorado; Anya Byers, The Nature Conservancy; Adrian Harpold, University of Arizona; Brent E. Ewers, University of Wyoming; Dave Gochis, NCAR; Paul Brooks, University of Arizona
2:30 PM
 Leaf shrinkability with dehydration: Coordination with hydraulic vulnerability and ecological implications
Christine Scoffoni, UCLA; Christine Vuong, UCLA; Steven Diep, UCLA; Lawren Sack, UCLA
2:50 PM
 Incorporating phylogeny into comparisons between lianas and trees
Sarah C. Pasquini, University of California; Louis Santiago, University of California, Riverside
3:10 PM
3:20 PM Cancelled
3:40 PM
 Impact of genotypic variation in aquaporin function on plant performance under drought
Timothy Llewellyn Aston, University of Wyoming; Brent E. Ewers, University of Wyoming; Yulia Yarkhunova, University of Wyoming; Carmela Rosaria Guadagno, University of Wyoming; Cynthia Weinig, University of Wyoming
4:00 PM
 Herbaceous plants struggling with drought: Metabolic characterization of genotypic variance via NMR
Carmela Rosaria Guadagno, University of Wyoming; Brent E. Ewers, University of Wyoming; Teresa Lehmann, University of Wyoming; Cynthia Weinig, University of Wyoming; Elena Topchiy, University of Wyoming; Timothy Llewellyn Aston, University of Wyoming; Yulia Yarkhunova, University of Wyoming
4:20 PM
 Controls on interspecific variation in tree-ring oxygen isotopes among three co-dominant species in a temperate forest
Xin Song, University of Pennsylvania; Kenneth L. Clark, USDA Forest Service; Brent Helliker, University of Pennsylvania