COS 100
Climate Change: Ranges And Phenology II

Thursday, August 8, 2013: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
101I, Minneapolis Convention Center
1:30 PM
 MaxEnt vs. MaxLike: Empirical comparisons with ant species distributions
Nicholas J. Gotelli, University of Vermont; Matthew C. Fitzpatrick, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science; Aaron M. Ellison, Harvard University
1:50 PM
 Climate change tracking using a century of phenology data in Colorado
Anna A. Sher, University of Denver; Amelia Bowman, University of Denver; Ryan Whitney, University of Denver; Francesca Aguirre-Wong, University of Denver; Eliot Jackson, St. Mary's of California; Rob Robinson, Denver Botanic Gardens
2:10 PM
 Upward ant distribution shift corresponds with minimum, not maximum, temperature tolerance
Robert J. Warren II, SUNY Buffalo State; Lacy D. Chick, University of Tennessee
2:30 PM
 Potential impact of climate change on 63 Galliformes species in China: differences in species with different phylogeny
Xinhai LI, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Yuan Wang, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2:50 PM
 Size-specific trends in growth across tree species elevational ranges suggest complex range shift dynamics in response to changes in climate
Kevin R. Ford, University of Washington; Ian Breckheimer, University of Washington; Steve J. Kroiss, University of Washington; Elinore J. Theobald, University of Washington; Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, University of Washington
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 Non-climatic constraints on species' elevational range expansion under climate change
Carissa D. Brown, Memorial University; Mark Vellend, Université de Sherbrooke
3:40 PM
 Variation in P. angustifolia functional traits and soil conditioning along gradients of latitude and elevation: Implications for feedbacks and range-shifts
Michael E. Van Nuland, University of Tennessee; J. a. Schweitzer, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; J. K. Bailey, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
4:20 PM
 Responses of subalpine tree recruitment to warming within and above current altitudinal ranges
Lara M. Kueppers, University of California, Merced; Cristina Castanha, Berkeley Lab; Andrew B. Moyes, University of California, Merced; Matthew J. Germino, US Geological Survey; Margaret S. Torn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; John Harte, University of California; Jeffry Mitton, University of Colorado