Monday, August 4, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
103 C, Midwest Airlines Center
COS 4 - Climate Change: Range and Phenology
1:30 PMThe role of adaptation and differentiation in geographic range shifts under climate change
Shannon L. Pelini, University of Notre Dame, Jessica J. Hellmann, University of Notre Dame
1:50 PMImplications of local adaptation in tree physiology and phenology in a common garden
Kala L. Peebles, University of Minnesota, Rebecca A. Montgomery, University of Minnesota
2:10 PMAbrupt but non-synchronous vegetation responses to early Holocene mid-continental drying in North America
John W. (Jack) Williams, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bryan N. Shuman, University of Wyoming, Patrick J. Bartlein, Univerity of Oregon, Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Purdue University
2:30 PMPathways of forest landscape response to global climatic change: Competition or colonization?
Chonggang Xu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, George Gertner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Robert M. Scheller, Conservation Biology Institute
2:50 PMSnow thresholds and projected boreal forest shifts show vulnerability of Lynx canadensis (Canada Lynx) to climate change
Patrick Gonzalez, University of California, Berkeley, Kevin S. McKelvey, USDA Forest Service, Ronald P. Neilson, USDA Forest Service, James M. Lenihan, USDA Forest Service, Raymond J. Drapek, USDA Forest Service
3:10 PMBreak
3:20 PMPhenology of spring bat emergence from a major hibernaculum
Gretchen A. Meyer, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, James A. Reinartz, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, Joseph A. Senulis, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Will Zarwell, Madison, WI
3:40 PMThe effects of weather on alpine bumble bee community structure
Gretchen LeBuhn, San Francisco State University, Brendan Colloran, San Francisco State University
4:00 PMImpact of recent environmental change on Great Basin small mammals: An 80-year resurvey of the Ruby Mountains, Nevada
Rebecca J. Rowe, University of Utah, Eric A. Rickart, University of Utah
4:20 PMIs climate change leading to increased interannual variability in lake ice breakup dates?
Barbara J. Benson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Olaf P. Jensen, University of Wisconsin-Madison, John J. Magnuson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
4:40 PMGenetic evidence for multiple refugia in Alaska during the last glacial maximum
Lynn L. Anderson, University of Notre Dame, Feng Sheng Hu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ken N. Paige, University of Illinois

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