Tuesday, August 5, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
103 AB, Midwest Airlines Center
COS 18 - Climate Change and Plants I
8:00 AMCOS 18-1Response of the mean global vegetation distribution to interannual climate variability
Michael Notaro, University of Wisconsin-Madison
8:20 AMCOS 18-2Long-term changes in a range margin steppic plant community: The role of climate and the response of community composition and spatial pattern
Rob W. Brooker, The Macaulay Institute, Silvia Matesanz, C.C.M.A.-C.S.I.C., Fernando Valladares, C.C.M.A.-C.S.I.C., Colin Beale, The Macaulay Institute, Stefan Klotz, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
8:40 AMCOS 18-3Assessing recent climatic changes within the contiguous United States
Evan H. Girvetz, University of Washington, Peter Kareiva, The Nature Conservancy, Joshua J. Lawler, University of Washington
9:00 AMCOS 18-4Have 55 years of climate change affected serpentine and non-serpentine plant communities differently?
Ellen I. Damschen, Washington University, Susan P. Harrison, University of California, Davis
9:20 AMCOS 18-5Where will all the flowers go? Climate change and the global distribution of plant diversity
Jan Henning Sommer, University of Bonn, Gerold Kier, University of Bonn, Holger Kreft, University of Bonn, Jens Mutke, University of Bonn, Walter Jetz, University of California, San Diego, Wilhelm Barthlott, University of Bonn
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 18-6Multifactor climate change: Divergence in plant community composition drives changes in soil ecosystem functioning
Paul Kardol, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Aimée T. Classen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
10:10 AMCOS 18-7Changes of growing season length and soil thermal regimes in Alaskan boreal forests
Jinyun Tang, Purdue University, Qian Lai Zhuang, Purdue University
10:30 AMCOS 18-8Influence of climate change factors on emergence, growth, and survivorship of woody seedling establishment in a constructed old-field community
Courtney E. Campany, University of Tennessee, Richard J. Norby, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Aimee T. Classen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
10:50 AMCOS 18-9Impacts of changing climate on pinyon pine (P. edulis) growth in southeastern Utah - CANCELLED
Nichole N. Barger, University of Colorado, Connie Woodhouse, University of Arizona
11:10 AMCOS 18-10The effect of long-tem exposure to elevated CO2 on NO and NH3 efflux from Mojave Desert soils
Carmody K. McCalley, Cornell University, Jed P. Sparks, Cornell University

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