Friday, August 8, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
104 D, Midwest Airlines Center
COS 113 - Environmental Gradients
8:00 AMCOS 113-1Ecohydrological trends in land-surface microclimate along a grassland forest continuum: Near ground solar radiation and soil temperature in piñyon-juniper ecosystem
Patrick D. Royer, University of Arizona, David D. Breshears, The University of Arizona, Chris B. Zou, Oklahoma State University, Neil Cobb, Northern Arizona University
8:20 AMCOS 113-2Species turnover at community level ecotones: How disturbance regime affects patterns of diversity
Amanda R. Senft, University of North Carolina, Robert K. Peet, University of North Carolina
8:40 AMCOS 113-3No space-for-time substitution: Mediterranean and semi-arid plant communities prove highly resistant to climate change simulations
Johannes Metz, University of Tuebingen, Germany, Katja Tielboerger, University of Tuebingen, Germany
9:00 AMCOS 113-4Environmental stressors and the mechanisms that determine the distribution of plant species along a tropical rainfall gradient
Tania Brenes-Arguedas, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Phyllis D. Coley, University of Utah, Thomas A. Kursar, University of Utah
9:20 AMCOS 113-5Demography of a metal-hyperaccumulating plant on contaminated and non-contaminated sites
Judy P. Che-Castaldo, University of Maryland, College Park, David W. Inouye, University of Maryland
9:40 AM Break
9:50 AMCOS 113-6Ecotype-specific differences in the survivorship and growth of Arabidopsis thaliana under extreme diurnal temprature variation
Kathleen Engelmann, University of Bridgeport, Melissa A. Perez, University of Bridgeport, Jasmine Martiche, University of Bridgeport, Melanie Trinidad, University of Bridgeport
10:10 AMCOS 113-7Distribution and species richness patterns of bird communities in high elevation forests of Virginia
Heather Lessig, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, William J. McShea, Smithsonian Institution - National Zoological Park, Jeffrey R. Walters, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
10:30 AMCOS 113-8Variation in reproductive traits as a function of soil environment in two species of Ipomopsis
Steven E. Travers, North Dakota State University, Diane R. Campbell, UC Irvine

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