ESA/SER Joint Meeting (August 5 -- August 10, 2007)

PS 43-44

Response of soil moisture content to five years of predicted global climate change treatments in the Mojave Desert
Chris D. Holmes, University of Nevada, Reno; Robert S. Nowak, University of Nevada Reno

PS 43-45

Effects of warming and altered precipitation on plant and nutrient dynamics of New England salt marshes
Heather Charles, University of Massachusetts; Jeffrey Dukes, Purdue University

PS 43-46

Warming alters consumption efficiency of terrestrial arthropods
Björn C. Rall, Darmstadt University of Technology; Olivera Vučić-Pestić, Darmstadt University of Technology; Roswitha B. Ehnes, Darmstadt University of Technology; Ulrich Brose, University of Göttingen

PS 43-47

Warming and nitrogen deposition have contrasting effect on the invasive Taraxacum officinale in the high-alpine of central Chile
Marco A. Molina-Montenegro, Universidad de Concepción; Lohengrin A. Cavieres, Universidad de Concepcion, IEB Chile

PS 43-48

Assessing two plant leaf functional traits across a temperature gradient
Robin S. Sleith, Green Mountain College; Brian Enquist, University of Arizona; Christine A. Lamanna, University of Maine; John Harte, University of California; Laura L. Crumbacher, University of Arizona; Melissa J. Wilson, University of Arizona

PS 43-49

Soil temperature controls of microbial activity in a desert ecosystem
Natasja C. Van Gestel, Texas Tech University; John C. Zak, Texas Tech University

PS 43-50

Photosynthetic responses of four understory tree species exposed to elevated CO₂ and N fertilization in the Duke FACE experiment
Richard B. Thomas, West Virginia University; Christopher R. Buyarski, University of Minnesota; Sarah Davis, Ohio University

PS 43-51

Teracosm updates: Renovations to the EPA’s Global Climate Change Research Facility
Kristoffer K. Wilson, Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Associates; Jillian W. Gregg, Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Associates

PS 43-52

Distinct soil respiration of cottonwood and loblolly pine during stand development when grown with a range of resource availability treatments
Mark D. Coleman, University of Idaho

PS 43-53

Increased litterfall causes conversion of soil carbon to atmospheric CO₂ in tropical forests
Emma J. Sayer, Lancaster University; Edmund V.J. Tanner, University of Cambridge

PS 43-54

Carbon sequestration: diversity and composition determine carbon storage in soil
D.A. Fornara, University of Minnesota; D. Tilman, University of Minnesota

PS 43-55

Landscape controls on carbon and nitrogen cycling in boreal forests
Kristen L. Manies, U.S. Geological Survey; Jennifer W. Harden, United States Geological Survey; Michelle C. Mack, University of Florida; Ben P. Bond-Lamberty, Joint Global Change Research Institute; Katherine P. O'Neill, Roanoke College; Jason C. Neff, University of Colorado; Merritt R. Turetsky, University of Guelph

PS 43-56

Temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter fractions
Michelle L. Haddix, Colorado State University; Carolina Lisboa, Colorado State University; Richard T. Conant, Queensland University of Technology; Eldor A. Paul, Colorado State University; J. Megan Steinweg, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

PS 43-57

Soil water holding capacity regulates ecosystem responses to multifactor global change: A modeling analysis
Ensheng Weng, Princeton University; Xuhui Zhou, Fudan University; Rebecca Sherry, University of Oklahoma; Yiqi Luo, University of Oklahoma

PS 43-58

Changes in northern hardwood growing season length and productivity during an 18-year warming trend
Andrew J. Burton, Michigan Technological University; Kurt S. Pregitzer, University of Idaho; Donald R. Zak, University of Michigan

PS 43-59

Fine-scale variation in CO₂ exchange of coastal wet tundra in Alaska in response to hydrological gradients
Paulo Olivas, Florida International University; Steven F. Oberbauer, Florida International University; Andrea Kuchy, Florida International University

PS 43-60

Retention ponds as sinks for particulate carbon
Sonii Kollie, Miami University; Michael J. Vanni, Miami University; William H. Renwick, Miami University

PS 43-61

Land use and seasonal effects on dissolved inorganic carbon concentrations of Ohio streams and reservoirs
Elizabeth K. Cable, Miami University; Lesley B. Knoll, Lacawac Sanctuary Field Station; Michael J. Vanni, Miami University; William H. Renwick, Miami University

PS 43-62

Soil and vegetation predictors of shrub expansion in arctic Alaska
M. Syndonia Bret-Harte, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Martin Sommerkorn, The Macaulay Institute; Gregory Goldsmith, Chapman University; Ken D. Tape, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Laura S. Brosius, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Peter M. Ray, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Andrew McCarthy, National Park Service; Kumi L. Rattenbury, National Park Service; Andrew W. Balser, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Diane M. Sanzone, National Park Service

PS 43-63

Climate influence on shifts in the Deep Canyon ecocline, 1977-2007
Anne E. Kelly, California State University, Los Angeles / University of California, Irvine; Michael Goulden, University of California, Irvine

PS 43-64

Phenology of shrubs and precipitation pulses in the Chilean semiarid zone
María Moreno-Chacón, Universidad de La Serena; Julio R. Gutierrez, Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad, Universidad de La Serena; Peter L. Meserve, University of Idaho; Douglas A. Kelt, University of California

PS 43-65

Is the modest mat muhly moving upslope and if so, how does this alpine C4 grass respond to the reduction in CO₂?
John B. Skillman, California State University; Rowan F. Sage, University of Toronto; Archie Meyer, California State University

PS 43-66

Climate change, mountain pine beetle, and the decline of whitebark pine, a keystone species of high-elevation ecosystems in British Columbia, Canada
Elizabeth M. Campbell, Natural Resources Canada; Allan Carroll, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada

PS 43-67

Sprouting ability of diverse tropical tree species depends on environmental conditions
Carl F. Salk, Duke University; James Clark, Duke University

PS 43-68

Factors driving Pinus jeffreyi regeneration at a forest-shrubland ecotone in eastern California, USA
Holly Alpert, University of California; Michael Loik, University of California

PS 43-69

A meta-analysis of plant responses to elevated CO₂and temperature
Dan Wang, University of Illinois; Scott A. Heckathorn, University of Toledo; E. William Hamilton III, Washington and Lee University

PS 43-70

Carbon and waterrelations: Pinus taeda gene expression under elevated CO₂
Catarina Moura, Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ULisboa), Centro de Ecologia Funcional (U.Coimbra) and UC-Berkeley; Rob Jackson, Stanford and Duke universities

PS 43 - Climate change